For some reason, this scares me. What’s worse is that I drew it myself.
Channeling Expressionism?
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Something that Scares Me
11 | May | 2011Chairness
04 | March | 2011Today’s ‘Museum as a Resources’ class talked about the decorative arts with a focus on the chairs in the museum’s collection. It got me thinking about old discussions in my college design and philosophy class. The main question of which was always the ‘thisness of this’ or, as example, the chariness of a chair. Plato had an interesting insight when he spoke of ideal forms. In this case, there is an ideal chair in the realm of ideas and forms. All human endeavors to make chairs embody this chairness to some extent, though never quite achieve the perfect, ideal chair. The ‘real thing’ we perceive as a chair is merely an echo of what the ideal chair is. The caveat of Plato’s argument is then that a drawing or painting of a chair is further removed from the ideal by its two dimensional representation of a three dimensional object. And so for no reason, I did a sketch of a chair on my iPad:
iPad sketch
This is actually also a journal entry assignment for said class.
Happy Head-on-a-Spike Day
12 | February | 2011So I took the plunge and got an iPad. It was a present to me, from me, for being such a good boy and having several successes in a row. It has supplanted my home web browsing experience, increased my habit of watching shows in bed, and is slowly subverting any analog sketch book I may keep. To this end I have two powerful drawing tools on my iPad: Sketchbook Pro, which I’ve posted examples of, and this new one called iDraw. Sketchbook Pro I’ve already raved about on my iPhone (Sketchbook Mobile), but iDraw is a vector based drawing app that seems to cover everything else. It has text capability! You can use more than 6 layers! Objects stay dynamic and selectable and order-able inside the layer. You can even elect to export the drawing as an svg, PDF, png, or jpeg file as well as send it to the iPad photo library. I imagine that the svg file would retain the drawing’s editablity upon opening it in illustrator, but I’ve yet to try that. Here is a sample drawing depicting my embittered attitude to love near this holiday:
well...Is it?
