Mark Making
During the first class of the module we all had a discussion about what the word 'drawing' meant to us. We decided that drawing was a way of creating a subtle line of any description, with any material. This line can be a performance, a representation of something, or an abstract creation using artistic concepts. It does not simply mean picking up a pencil and creating a lifelike representation of an existing image.
However I found the term 'drawing' to be too reminiscent of strictly traditional non-abstract media and also to be limiting creatively. To change this mindset I prefer to call drawing 'mark making' as I find that referring to it as this to have far greater potential to make a piece of work that I find both interesting and visually stimulating. This also gives me a much wider range of materials to work with, both mixed and traditional media. This helps me greatly as I prefer to create rather abstract and concept based artwork.