User:Chen Junyu/Graduation Project Seminar/ project proposal/3rd

what is my thesis?（ Outline )

over the past years I have been trying to clarify my work and find the topic in my work.

1）What is the process of drawing and what is drawing that I think it is meaningful for me.

2) Where is my motivation and inspiration from

3) How can I improve the process of drawing physically and conceptually

Introduction The earliest scene I can remember till now about drawing is when I was at the age of four or five. There was a national children drawing competition on during that time, so the teacher asked me to participate. The way she guided me was, she made a picture first, a pink pig jumped into deep sea, then she displayed the image on the wall and asked me to draw one as what she did. Then I got a honorable mention and a hard cover book included all prized works by sending 50 RMB to the sponsor.

This story has confused me for a long term, it keeps recalling questions as " What is drawing? What does a valued drawing should be? and Why do I need to draw if the scene is already there? ".

This thesis is looking for answers, of course there is not the "correct only one", there should be countless aspects to think of them. However, by going through these questions, I am also trying to clarify my thoughts about drawing and summarize them for a full stop of the story.

Chapter I. The Process

1. what is the physical process? 2. what is the interaction during the process? 3. what is the spiritual process?

When I started doing pencil sketches, the shadow lines attracted me deeply. Imagine the shadow lines in Ingres sketches, those lines sometimes constitute the grey area, sometimes hided in the drape of clothes or skin, and extend from the drape becomes the edge between bright and dark. If we look at those lines carefully, generally we can see those lines start with thickness and end up with thinness. But the contrast of the thickness and thinness is need to be dealed with carefully, it impacts the whole work essentially. Each line, point, is all the basic and also important element to constitute the final work. When we starts transfer the scene -- either in our eyes or in our mind-- to paper, each movement we make for a line or a point, is becoming an independent "work" itself which is depicting a certain part of the reality.