SKETCHING

  

One of the methods that I use when I am creating is sketching. I use it very often and in almost every work and experiment. 

Since the beginning of the course I already was sketching my idea. It helps to communicate the idea, how I plan to approach it and clarify the idea. The sketches are ideas of compositions in the space with objects, performers, movements…; the important theatrical elements for me in a space. These are movement, or suggested movement and tension between lights. Important details (wheels, windows…) or esthetics are also drawn in the sketches.

 

I make ingenuous sketches, which means that they are very simply drawn, without details, just showing the necessary. Sometimes color is added to show the light that is emitted. I draw the sketches with a black pen or marker on a white sheet of paper (A3, A4 or A5, what I think is suitable). I often start in A5/4 and then draw them larger so I can hang them on the wall. I draw them by hand. After I finished them, I take a picture of them so I can use them digitally.

 

When I draw my sketches, I draw the space and I draw the objects or add objects which might make a space theatrical. It’s not just one sketch I make per work, but I make several different sketches. One of a certain object in a space, something that attracts my attention; one of a composition in the space, one of a composition I made before, one of an idea I have. 

While working, the sketches are the starting point to push the work in a certain direction, but during the process new sketches can come to existence and others can be forgotten. Although they are the starting point, during the process, I start again with making sketches. It helps for me to see if an idea might work or not, or is misplaced.

There is always one main sketch which is the idea, other sketches are added afterwards.

Because I am not that good at drawing, I try to sketch my idea, but sometimes it looks different than the initial idea, and this might be evoking more what I wanted to say. During the process of sketching, I draw the idea that I have. While drawing other ideas might occur in my mind, creating new ideas or sketches. When this happens, these new ideas might be a better way of telling, showing my intended idea.

 

The mind-maps I make are another form of making sketches. Words combined, linked with lines to words. In these sketches I also draw on a blank sheet of paper with a black pen. 

This mind-map (also the online form of Research catalogue) helps me to create a stable foundation of the research. Everything that is done or created in favor of the research, can be found on this platform.

I still need to find a way of how these different methods of sketching are influencing each other and how they can be combined.