ABSTRACT
In a sense, drawing is learned by accumulating a visual vocabulary, just as speaking requires a verbal vocabulary. And as a certain amount of sentence structure, syntax, and voice inflection must be learned to communicate verbally, so must there be some rules of drawing that need to be learned and used to communicate the meanings of your drawings. We think of communication as “normal,” but in the distant past there were no words, and at that point man had limited ways to communicate his thoughts – simple as they probably were. Our present way of communication has evolved … and is still evolving. In our class we're attempting to make another leap in drawing communication by seeing the gesture at once and putting it down in all its freshness and lucidity.
