1/28/2004   slide 11
Edwards’ Five Aspects of Drawing
Related to the perceptual stages of vision
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Perceptual Processing Stages
Drawing Skills
 “BIRD” Category-based
5. Perception of Gestalt
               Object-based
4. Perception of Light & Shadow
               Surface-based
3. Perception of Relationships
2. Perception of Spaces
              Image-based
1. Perception of Edges
IMAGE BASED PROCESSING
Edges: exercises about lines, including edges and internal contour lines
Spaces: chiefly about negative space, a sort of figure and ground exercise that looks at “the other side of the line”

SURFACE-BASED
Relationships: relative positions and scale, angles of surfaces. The goal of these exercises is in large part to help you draw surfaces as you see them, not as you know they are. E.g., drawing a tilted circle as a ellipse…

OBJECT-BASED
Light & shadow: knowledge of objects and the interrelationships is necessary to do proper shading…

CATEGORIES
Gestalt: the meaning of the images, “the thingness of the thing”