{"id":8867,"date":"2012-06-28T09:50:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T09:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=8867"},"modified":"2021-07-29T18:17:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T18:17:39","slug":"why-drawing-is-so-important-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/8867\/why-drawing-is-so-important-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Drawing Is So Important To Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I love to draw. I began drawing before I could speak. I\u2019ve never stopped. It took me decades to learn to draw the way I wanted to. I spend less time drawing than I used to, now I rarely draw to produce finished results, but hardly a day goes by when I don\u2019t draw, to record or refine ideas.<\/p>\n

Drawing is a way to understanding. There\u2019s a difference between knowing things mechanically (with a camera) in 1\/125th<\/sup> of a second and knowing it manually (with a pencil, pen, or brush) over the space of hours or even days. Both ways can inform one another.<\/p>\n

People often ask me, \u201cDo you draw before, during, or after I photograph?\u201d I respond, \u201cYes.\u201d There are different benefits to drawing at every stage in the process of creation.<\/p>\n

I sometimes draw before arriving at a location to structure my visual explorations. I sometimes draw while on-site, to record ideas that cannot be photographed. I sometimes draw after visiting a location, from unfinished photographs made there, to identify the many ways they can be combined with other photographs. I sometimes draw on finished photographs to identify patterns of thinking and ways to develop them further.<\/p>\n

There are many reasons to draw and many ways of drawing.<\/p>\n

I take the definition of photo-graph literally \u2013 light-drawing. For me, photography is one more way to draw.<\/p>\n

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