From “learning to draw” to “acquiring a visual vocabulary”
Many people feel they “can’t draw”, which seems odd given assumptions about drawing as a direct pathway to visual concepts. Most of us can see, so why can’t we draw? […]
Workshop: How We Make and Understand Drawings
A few weeks back I had the pleasure of doing a workshop with Gabriel Greenberg (UCLA) about the understanding of drawings and visual narratives at the University of Connecticut. The workshop […]
Travel plans and Mailbag
I leave for my upcoming Germany trip on Monday! I’m very excited about the workshops and can’t wait to jump into them. As it turns out, I’ve been invited to […]
Commander Mark and visual vocabularies
I got a blast from the past today when my old friend and awesome comic artist Dan Fraga posted this video of “Commander” Mark Kistler’s classic drawing show from PBS, […]
Universality and diversity in visual languages
One of the interesting byproducts of my theory of visual language is the implication that drawings are not universal. Because images look like what they represent (the are “iconic), they […]