Drawing history and future

What drawings have been used for in the past:
Medical drawings
Educational drawings
Story telling
Memorialize events
Communication
Personal enjoyment
Represent, symbolize
Maps
Instructional diagrams
Blueprints

How are they used in the present:
Decoration
Protesting
Recording
Territory marking
Divide space

How we have encountered drawing as a viewer:
Realism can intimidate the less skilled artist. Inspiring us to try new ways of drawing, and expanding our styles. Relating your personal experiences to the drawings.

How have we experienced drawing as a maker of art:
Drawing really is the basis for most art processes, it is the experimental stage, and can become a final stage. It’s where artists begin. I believe as a maker of art, drawing is the most versatile medium artists have at their disposal.

When has drawing been most interesting to me:
After learning more about line quality and the different mediums for drawing (ei charcoal, ink, pencil) I saw drawing as having more potential to be different, not only in content and style, but also in medium.

What should drawing be for, how should it function:
Drawing should be for planning and as a final result. As it is functioning now in our world is exactly how it should be used. Drawing is fundamental to understanding art and it’s making. Without understanding the technical aspect of drawing its difficult to create anything the mind imagines.

Found Drawings Discussion

The definition of drawing that we came up with was a moving point. Moving points create lines and a drawing is made up of a multiple variety of lines. An excellent drawing would have texture, a variety of line weight, an interesting composition, and an interesting use of space. When people in the group were taking pictures of found drawings, they looked for pattern, repetition and an interesting line quality. With this criteria, we picked the images that conformed to these ideas the closest.