Know what P3 is? It’s ?Paper, Person, Perception. The holy trinity of drawing. It’s because drawing is never one sided and it’s something people tend to forget all too easily. Y’see, the process of drawing actually comprises a trinity. We usually assume there is just one entity involved, ‘I’.
This post is about the mysterious holy trinity of drawing. The trio that is fundamental to learning about the world (and yourself) through drawing.
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Drawing is a means to seeing. The act of drawing allows you to sharpen your senses and see the world through new eyes. We’ll explain it all. We promise!
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Know what P3 is? It’s ?Paper, Person, Perception. The holy trinity of drawing. It’s because drawing is never one sided and it’s something people tend to forget all too easily. Y’see, the process of drawing actually comprises a trinity. We usually assume there is just one entity involved, ‘I’.
This post is about the mysterious holy trinity of drawing. The trio that is fundamental to learning about the world (and yourself) through drawing.
Comparing Apples to Lightbulbs
This post is about categorisation errors, and about how confusing such fallacies are when applied without thought. Let’s start with a simplified example.
mathematician: Understand Math?
Other guy: Absolutely!
mathematician: What’s 2 x 2
Other guy: 6
mathematician: Um, isn’t that 4?
Other guy: Well, my belief system is different…
The mathematician is obviously refering to simple arithmetic. The other guy however is somewhere else. Not only did he get the sum wrong, he’s gone ahead and botched up the category itself. It’s like comparing apples to lightbulbs. Confounding and frustrating. What does one do when …
Saturday before last, we found ourselves bright and early (at 9:3o am, haha!) on the shores of the mind bogglingly HUGE Bellandur lake. Remember, it was World Environment day then? We had our eyes open and our sketchbooks out (wands at the ready!) We found HSBC employees on a tree-plantathon, here.
This discussion on our online community made me think about why we draw what we draw.
The question was, why do we draw?
George’s reply was enlightening:
“… Why this urgency to convey our subjective experiences? Writers, artists, musicians are all engaged in this activity, so it’s not simply a one off thing. The attempt to turn subjective experiences into tangible reality is a natural process of being human….”
Why, then we should be drawing all the time! George explains why we don’t:
“… As a young …
In Some thoughts on Sketch Books, I had mentioned that one of the things that I am concious of when drawing is that someone is going to look at my sketch later. On introspection, I felt that this gets in the way of my drawing because it ‘snaps’ me out of my involvement of my drawing repeatedly. I find myself unnecessarily prettying the drawing when I should be just going with the flow.
A Chess Metaphor
Perhaps I cannot articulate this properly, so let me use …
