Lecture 1
Drawing

Drawing is not just pictures on a page therefore do not necessarily have to be for Art. It can be used to develop your thinking process and ideas into the form of visual outcomes. Drawing by hand enables you to clearly organise your thoughts, improve and problem solve showing the process of how your thoughts developed into a potential idea. Thumbnail sketches are ideal as the quality is not the main focus. Here is a page taken from Henry Moore's sketchbook. Ideas emerge when 'thinking on the page'.
Drawing is a wide ranging activity. You are not limited to using a pen and paper, the process can be experimented with different materials which can then further your ideas. In your head you cannot be sure of what will work well as the idea needs to be explored physically.
Lizzie Finn is not a confident drawer so instead replaces her drawing material with various fabrics giving a different effect to working with common instruments such as pens and pencils.

Utilise your creative brain

There are two halves to the brain each of which process independently in different ways.
The right side of the brain is the most creative and is functioned to explore and experiment. Imagine it as a child at play, sensitive and curious to what new things they may discover and investigate to develop their skills.
Referring to Principle 1, 'drawing' is a perfect example to identify the right side of the brain. Generating ideas on the page can lead to a playful accident. Your original idea could lead to another idea with a different purpose.
The left side of the brain is a complete contrast. Here we question what is useful, analysing and evaluating our thoughts and processes. It is not so much about the experimentation and creativity but the annotation of the thoughts behind it. The left side of the brain puts a quantitative value on the quality of the work.
Both sides are essential and needed to enhance the creativity.  On the right, the term 'play' needs direction from the left therefore both sides of the brain need to compromise in order for it to function at the best of its ability. The creative process is consciously, repeatedly switching brain modes.

Here is a page taken out of a sketchbook where the left and right brain are working together. The left brain is questioning the visual created by the right brain. Will the idea work, how can it be developed? Brief annotation is used to represent the left side of the brain. The combination of these actions results in a more effective process and idea.

Below is a page taken from my RVJ. where again the two sides of the brain are working together. This a design that I developed from magazine research. I wanted to experiment with how I could approach their idea differently. Using my left side of the brain, I annotated my design that I created using the right side of the brain. The annotation are my thoughts behind the design, stating why I have used collage and what effect this has on the audience.