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- redant
Can all good designers draw well?
- infostruct0
Not sure how good I am, but I can't draw "well". I love to draw, but I could never sit and draw something realistically.
Illustrators maybe, but as a designer, you must understand type, color and composition more that drawing.
- MrDinky0
nope
they teach that in school but teaching and doing is seperate thing
i cant...
- redant0
true!
- dan_dan_dan0
SHOULD Designers "Know How To Draw"; probably, yes.
"Knowing How To Draw", however, as a concept, does not truly communicate what's important about the art of using one's hands to create something--in this case, visual representations of, whatever.
It's important to understand line quality, and being able to translate what your eyes see via pencil to paper is one of the best known ways to do this (understand line quality).
Paula can help us to understand this:
- scarabin0
shit drawing is the new good drawing
makes having actual drawing skills pointless
- 2cents0
i think you should be able to... but i know plenty of solid designers who can only draw chicken scratch.
- BNoir0
No but practice helps
It's good to be able to draw what you mean especially if it helps describe the wikid design you've got in your hed
- dan_dan_dan0
Oh yea; as a practicing designer, I do not sketch or draw much. I don't get angry at myself for not doing so because I don't learn how out of pure laziness.
Anyone can learn to draw; not not just anyone can learn to love type.
- version30
shit drawing is the new good drawing
makes having actual drawing skills pointless
scarabin
(Mar 18 05, 15:12)
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NO FUCKING SHIT AMEN OR WTFEVER THE CHICKEN SCRACH THAT GETS PRAISE EVEN ON NT IS FUCKING BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- BNoir0
tru dan_dan_dan
type is a true art
- spiralstarez0
I would say drawing would correlate to making a good designer better, but I wouldn't say you need one for the other.
- dan_dan_dan0
Drawing skills will never be rendered pointless.
As BNoir keenly noted, it's important to be able to effectively illustrate the visuals going on in your head. No one else can get in there, you have to bring it out.
- dan_dan_dan0
What spiralstarez said is true.
- BONE0
for both you need to know how to see.
by practicing drawing you practice how to look at things wich helps you as a designer.
so does Photography, even in a more direct way, because it needs more skills to draw than to handle a camera.
- version30
the ability to draw is the ability to focus,
if you cant draw well, you're just lazy
- BNoir0
I can be lazy sometimes and I can draw sometimes, but when I can't draw it doesn't mean I'm lazy just that my head can't get round the drawing bit
- MrDinky0
so if a person focuses enough than they can make a master piece?
right..
drawing is like design, its either you have it or not.
- brooke0
Should illustrators be good designers as well?
- MrDinky0
no.. some illu are good at design but most are not.
- dan_dan_dan0
I agree that some illustrators make great designers; take for example Charles S. Anderson:
Drawing can be learned. It can be learned by anyone. It's like being creative, we are born creative, that's why we all love Crayola out the box.
It's just that some move on to foster creativity and others study business.