They look like rectangles, but they are not
The main principle in non-verbal drawing is not to draw what you understand. Well, now I live in Paris, one of the most boring cities in the world, so I spend my time posting in Hive, working and writting my non-verbal drawing tips.
In Paris, there is only one architectural style: the so-called Hausmaniann Style. Once you have seen a facade in Paris, you have seen them all. French people are very good at cooking and producing wine but they lack of sense of humor and creativity. The baron of Hausmaniann was missioned by Napoleon III to re-build the city as he was returning from a visit to Queen Victoria in London. He wanted Paris to be as modern and imperial as London. (French people are never happy, and they allways envy there east and north, whineighbours, while their southern neighbors, simply, don´t exist). So Hausmann rebuild up to 60 % of the city in the lapse of 10 years! He only made one design. The drawing below is a tipical example of Hausmaniann architecture:
Now, back to my drawing tip of today, the purpose of this execrcise is to doddle something that looks like a window and its ornaments but, in fact it is not.
To do so, I try to follow what I call the graphic density gradient. When the gradient increases I scribble, when it decreases I raise my pen:
Then I step back from my drawing et voilâ
Then the recognition process of the mind finishes the work. The mind, our brain, need to understand. So the mind is going to process all this doddles and assign the highest probability of meaning. In that case, the highest probability is a window with its ornaments. But it is not. It is only a matter of perception. An perception produces a meaning when the wave function collapses
For curious people, wave function is a quantum physics concept. Wave function theory stablishes that reality does not exist until an observer collapses it. Wave function is made of probability of all possible meanings.
Hope you like it. Have a nice week, and if you are lucky enough to have a good day, frame it.
kind regards
Javier