THE ROLE OF WORKING DRAWING IN THE FIELD OF APPLIED ARTS

Abstract

The ability to draw has been present in us throughout human evolution. The terms “drawing” and “sketching” involves many different types and styles of mark-making; these are connections of abstraction in the form of an idea extrapolated to a reality-based outcome of its usages and applications. In the visual world of fine and applied arts, drafting, digital computational drawings, and exploration drawings are developed based on the application of the conscious mind alongside observation, translating this idea and the physical reality. With a single stroke, one can either construct the composition of a painting, develop new solutions, or solve essential problems. This paper seeks to examine and discuss the role of working drawings and their application in today’s environment. A selection of working drawings from the design field and visual fine arts are used as case studies for further dialogue and analysis. Science, as well as the arts, has relied on some form of drawings. These drawings function as evidence to create artistic beauty and/or further thrust the human mind into unknown fields. Thus, this process is fundamental and necessary at two primary levels: understanding its functions and respecting it as an integral part of the design concept process. s a result, artists and designers would want to be seen as intellectuals and philosophers with an agenda of functionalism and not as simple medieval craftsmen.