I've been stressing the importance of drawing all year, both as a research tool and for itself. You should all be building up sketchpads (which I'm collecting this week) and experimenting with media and techniques as often as possible. I've just watched episode 1 and 4 of the BBC series The Secret of Drawing and recommend that you all try to watch them too:
http://art.docuwat.ch/videos/the-secret-of-drawing/the-secret-of-drawing-01/?channel_id=21&skip=0
Episode 1 explores research drawing from Leonardo's human and Stubbs' horse anatomy studies, Turner and Constable's Romantic explorations of nature, right up to modern council housing estate drawings. The interactions between science and art and the fundamental nature of drawing as a language are emphasised. Episode 4 focuses on the role of drawing in design from concert sets and fantasy architecture to fashion tracing the development from Renaissance mechanics to modern computer graphics. I haven't had a chance to watch the other two yet, but Episode 2 looks at storytelling in drawing (comic books etc.) and Episode 3 looks at how the artist portrays what's inside their mind to the viewer. I hope you all find time to watch at least one episode soon, you can post comments here if you do.
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