Comments on: Twenty years to leave Henry and Joe behind http://www.signapse.co.uk/2008/10/13/twenty-years-to-leave-henry-and-joe-behind/ Everything starts with drawing Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:15:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: doug http://www.signapse.co.uk/2008/10/13/twenty-years-to-leave-henry-and-joe-behind/#comment-747 doug Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:48:53 +0000 http://www.signapse.co.uk/2008/10/13/twenty-years-to-leave-henry-and-joe-behind/#comment-747 That's strange - in fact its another funny thing in addition to the collapse of anglo saxon capitalist project. I think edges are dangerous. We see edges exactly as you say because they signify change. Because we evolved as opportunistic savannah hunter gatherers we know the difference between foliage and small thing I can eat and even more important the difference between foliage and a big thing I run away from. But in drawing, linear looking there is a danger that we see boundaries above relationships. Edges are easier and that is what makes them like the magnetic lasso tool in photoshop, our eyes get stuck on them. Not sure what I'm talking about here, so I'll get back to trying to draw a lizard as reference for a new Changeling print. That’s strange - in fact its another funny thing in addition to the collapse of anglo saxon capitalist project. I think edges are dangerous. We see edges exactly as you say because they signify change.

Because we evolved as opportunistic savannah hunter gatherers we know the difference between foliage and small thing I can eat and even more important the difference between foliage and a big thing I run away from. But in drawing, linear looking there is a danger that we see boundaries above relationships. Edges are easier and that is what makes them like the magnetic lasso tool in photoshop, our eyes get stuck on them.

Not sure what I’m talking about here, so I’ll get back to trying to draw a lizard as reference for a new Changeling print.

]]> By: Steve http://www.signapse.co.uk/2008/10/13/twenty-years-to-leave-henry-and-joe-behind/#comment-746 Steve Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:30:47 +0000 http://www.signapse.co.uk/2008/10/13/twenty-years-to-leave-henry-and-joe-behind/#comment-746 One of the things I'm relearning, now I've started drawing again, is the importance of edges. We are pattern-seeking animals and our visual systems are especially well adapted to discerning edges. Robotics researchers put enormous effort into teaching their computer vision systems to detect the edges of objects (as opposed to a change of colour or tone within an object). An edge means change. It helps define something by its boundaries and by what it isn't. Having spent years being told NOT to draw by marking outlines, I'm finding out that it's not always a bad thing. One of the things I’m relearning, now I’ve started drawing again, is the importance of edges. We are pattern-seeking animals and our visual systems are especially well adapted to discerning edges. Robotics researchers put enormous effort into teaching their computer vision systems to detect the edges of objects (as opposed to a change of colour or tone within an object). An edge means change. It helps define something by its boundaries and by what it isn’t. Having spent years being told NOT to draw by marking outlines, I’m finding out that it’s not always a bad thing.

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