Freehand drawing is a traditional means of pictorial representation and communication. Drawing is a medium of mental and manual abstraction from perception and experience. The drawing process is a discipline by which visual sensitivity and the perceptual differentiation of form, rhythm, and abstraction is investigated. Life drawing provides a practical basis for personal and professional development through the constant, intensive involvement in the drawing process. Current trends and theories should be consciously avoided. Object drawing from life should start using elementary geometric forms using linear structure: a drawing is developed from the total form (gestalt) to the related details. It is fundamentally an abstraction and not a photographic copy or an enumeration of detail. Personal drawing characteristics and means of expression are expanded through the mastery through the mastery of the medium and through continual experience. The complex, creative of drawing is developed through many interrelated activities: observation and perception, comprehension of form and proportion as a unity, abstraction of analyzed form into pictorial, dimensional illusion, mastery of techniques and means of expression, controlled chronological development of the creative process, and critical evaluation of the results. The reapplication of accumulated experience and knowledge leads to continued refinement and sensitivity. The drawing process is a continual, linear experience. Each result must be questioned: there is no single, absolute goal. This is a variation of the introduction to a The Foundation Program at the School of Design in Basel, Switzerland published in the late 1977 it is the best definition of drawing I have found to illustration my point of view on the subject.
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