Sketchbooks as research
A Bridge between Theory & Practice
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Exercise
Use your sketchbooks to make visual notes during the lecture.
Relax & do not censor this process.
This is not a drawing exercise but a doodling one.
My Practice
Graphic Designer,Technical illustrator & Motionographer
Many areas of work - difficult to define
Constantly evolving - Layers of paint – show Website - contextual portfolio
A Polymath - 'A man can do all things if he will' - (Leon battista alberti 1400's)
My Research
About - Visualising the Invisible
Starting point - Show Video
Now - Autoethnographic investigation of my sketchbooks
Moving towards - Meta Reality - Drawing things that dont exist
Theoretical Context
Confrontations with the Unconscious
Jung - 'Taking inner life seriously' - reinforcing the sketchbook
Mandala / Tarot as a device for mapping the inner world
Deleuze & Rhizomic learning
Discoveries
The difficulty of Research for Creative practicioners
Breaking the rules - A natural resistance to established dogma
Exploring the Nowhere (boundary) - the edges of the real - show Video
Solidity & Fluidity in my practice & thinking
Bergson - Metaphysics - stillness & movement
Eisenstien on Disney - Fluidity in animation. our fascination with the flame.
Zigmunt Bauman - liquid modernity - DIssolving established modernity
Relevance
How is this useful?
The importance of sketchbooks
The importance of Exploration & continued learning
Removal of solid thinking - the 'Am I allowed?'
So how do I get an A?
To sum up this lecture, we learnt that sketchbook is a very powerful way of working because you can jot down any ideas straight away. The process of is it wrong doesn't matter because it's all about developing the ideas. He showed us his website and went over all the pieces of work he has created/ Most of these are based on drawings in sketchbooks and a lot was just self taught. This was pretty interesting because the only technique was to use a sketchbook to begin with.
This is an example of a mixed media sketchbook. It's just a visual example of what a sketchbook could look like. There isn't a rule where it has to be neat and professional, it can even be scribbles. It's a way of just letting you draw with no control over how perfectionist it has to look. I quite like the look of a sketchbook that is all rough because it shows that there's so much ideas, thoughts and considerations going on. It's a way of collecting those and just putting it down on paper.
