What question about drawing should I explore? (help please 10 points)?

Question

So I've got to make some images and research on an enquiry about what drawing is and I don't know what to choose out of these?

Someone of the questions we brainstormed were can anyone draw? when does a drawing become a painting? is the whole world a drawing? is a line a drawing? can writing even be a drawing? can negative space be a drawing?


I was thinking about accidental/unintential drawings like spills, mud footprints, food stains coffee cup stains, even scars are drawings and how they all somehow tell a story...but i dont know how i could turn it into a question.

I was thinking: do drawings have story?
or are drawings just basically marks?
are drawings best when they are unintentional 'accidents (just because they tell a story)?
some of the most interesting drawings occur naturally around us?
we are always making drawings and yet we don't realise it - and these ones are perhaps the most interesting?
drawings dont require thought they just happen
everything makes drawings


i really like the idea of scars being drawings of out past...but i dont know what the question could be regarding what drawing is

otherwise i was thinking of emotions i.e
drawing as a way of expressing emotions i.e boredom, happiness, love etc...

Answer 1

There are some very interesting ideas here, but you may be hanging them on the hook of 'drawing' rather too much. Some of your ideas apply equally well to painting (or even sculpture, which can mean almost anything these days). I think the first thing you need to do is to develop a simple definition of drawing, that you can use to clarify your ideas, or perhaps to develop new ones.



When I've taught a class drawing and painting, I've sometimes asked students how they would differentiate them. Three basic ideas usually come up:

Firstly, drawing uses dry materials, while painting uses wet materials. But this isn't very satisfactory (what should we call a picture made with pen-and ink?), so with a bit of head-scratching students usually come up with...

Secondly, drawing is line-based, while painting is what might be called patch-based. Then someone usually suggests...

Thirdly, that drawing has something to do with getting what you see down as visible marks. As in, 'The drawing of the hands in the Mona Lisa.' Observational drawing, in other words, but including 'drawing' with paint. This is what people mean when they say, 'I wish I could draw.'



Possibly useful quote: 'At last, I do not know how to draw anymore.' Toulouse-Lautrec, as reported by Matisse. (http://www.projectarts.org/matisse.html - well worth reading.)



Taking the second definition above, there may be some connection between your ideas about story and the concept of a line as the track or trace of a motion.

Answer 2

I think the question "Can anyone draw?" would be an easy one to do. There is a lot of research and resources available to you on this subject and it's an interesting debate.



Otherwise your question about scars, accidental art, ect... falls more in to the question of "What is art?" Is anything art? Can it be defined objectively? You can find resources on this topic to.

Answer 3

a real artist is that who uses its own imagination.. who puts his emotions and try to express it through his drawings. it doesn't matters what he draws the thing to be noticed that wat the drawing tells what the artist wants to express! if u like my answer please give me points.