Design and Sketch

Author: Xu Shanyun
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: In the past, in the field of design, human hands were the implementers of design concepts and also participated in decision-making. Now, with the penetration of computer technology into the design field, computer-aided design (CAD) not only surpasses human hands but also permeates the entire process of design thinking and creation. As a result, manual skills like sketching seem particularly insignificant, and few people pay attention to its changes or the problems it brings. In the field of painting, sketching also faces the same issue. In the past, sketching was responsible for gathering materials for creation, and painters could spend years, decades, or even their entire lives on a single work, with the saying "nine sketches for one painting" or "three thousand pieces of waste paper." Through sketching, painters not only enriched their sensory experience but also achieved leaps in rational understanding. Now, with the constant acceleration of life, people are increasingly focused on efficiency, and audiences are eager to see the results. Painters rarely have the patience for this anymore. The function of sketching has been completely undermined by photography technology. As a result, sketching is merely given a polite nod, and its existence becomes another unbearable lightness.