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Drawing as continously guided Practice: A Phenomenological Foundation of the Sketch&Draw Method (2025)

Tanja K. Hess

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This essay examines drawing as a consciously guided practice for fostering creative problem‐solving and idea generation. At its center lies the Sketch&Draw method, with its core principle of the “fluttering line.” Drawing on Stephen R. Covey’s (1989) concept of the space between stimulus and response, Mihály Csikszentmihályi’s (1990) flow theory, and Maurice Merleau‐Ponty’s (1945) notion of embodiment, it develops—via the Sketch&Draw method—the central principle of the “fluttering line.” Through workshop analyses and practice sketches from sketchanddraw.com, it is evident how the visual noise of the fluttering line opens a mental space in which spontaneous impulses and effortless presence both set the creative process in motion and give it structure. Participant reports illustrate how these uncontrolled networks of strokes are later experienced as “whispered impulses” that support the flow state. Finally, the essay discusses potentials, fields of application, and methodological limits in artistic, technical, and academic contexts, and outlines proposals for further empirical and interdisciplinary research.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsDrawing as Intentional Practice, Phenomenology of Drawing, Sketching Techniques, Fluttering Line, Visual Noise, Creative Space, Flow State, Embodied Cognition, Idea Generation, Creative Mindset, Sketch&Draw, Sketchanddraw
date02/07/2025
published02/07/2025
last modified02/07/2025
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationInstitute of Multimedia Production, Department of Applied Future Technologies, Applied University in the Grisons, Switzerland
copyrightTanja Hess, 2025
licenseCC BY-NC
languageBritish English
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3781894/3781893
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/rc.3781894
published inResearch Catalogue


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