Drawn Dialogues / introductory course
Drawn Dialogues is the first course in Open Drawing, a series of online courses, each one one month long, designed to explore live drawing in relation to other people, to space, and to real-time animation tools.
Starting from intuition and play, this course introduces the foundations of this language through guided practices in Trazos Club. At first, it can be hard to imagine what it is like, but within a few minutes the logic becomes clear, and a comment often comes up after the first practices: “I don’t want to stop doing this.”
Starting in May!
Drawn Dialogues lasts 4 two-hour classes, with one meeting per week.
Courses open on different days and at different times, in Spanish and in English. Write to us and we will send you the different options.
Inquiries and registration: marcelarapallo@gmail.com
About the online courses
In Open Drawing, we open drawing practice into several dimensions:
Time
We draw live and, through digital effects, animate in real time the lines we make by hand. Because the image transforms at the very moment we are creating it, the present moment becomes the center of the experience: drawing means being there, and the drawing is built through time, like a story being told and imagined by the person listening. The drawing becomes a moving narration, lived through transformations and held in memory.
Space
We create digital lines that can be projected into space. This allows the surface we draw on to be an object, a wall, a building, a tree, a person, or an animal. We can project onto still surfaces or draw onto life in motion.
Dialogue
We draw with other people. Collective drawing enables a way of communicating with images, without the need for words: we propose, listen, respond, and build images through dialogue, as if we were a music band.
Play
We always begin from play. Play is both the method and the entry point: through simple prompts, we open ourselves to the freedom of exploring. We learn a language through enjoyment.
Scene
Because drawing transforms in time, it can become a scenic action. The role of the person drawing live appears, a drawer on stage, in dialogue with the space and with those who act, dance, or make music.
Open technologies
To make this possible, we use tools from the Trazos Club ecosystem, free and collaborative technologies for real-time animation that allow the line to move and transform in the moment. In some workshops we also work with Tagtool, explore programs that were not originally designed for live drawing, and integrate analog media.
Who it is for
Open Drawing courses are aimed both at people with no previous experience and at image professionals, illustrators, teachers, and people who draw every day and want to add a new way of drawing live, in groups, and in relation to space. Drawing is accessible to anyone: this practice can be relearned, reinvented, and shared.
