Growing ideas

This exercise is one of my favorite problems to give second-semester drawing students. It serves as a reminder and recall of the fundamentals learned in the first semester.

Elsewhere, I’ve written about this exercise: “This drawing exercise explores the possibilities of the exploded axonometrics technique. It involves exploding an imaginative Rubik’s cube in multiple stages, with each stage leaving a trace of its path. To start the drawing, one does not need to know exactly how it will end. The composition shapes itself as the drawing progresses. This method illustrates a wonderful quote on writing by E. L. Doctorow: ‘Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.’“

This also connects to a brilliant quote by Brian Eno. ““Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours ” He wrote this in the context of conceptual art and music, which perfectly fits what teaching means to me

All the drawings are from WCFA Batch 2016. Co Faculty : Rishi