Minimalising: Using Simple Line Drawings to Explore Sculptural Form

By Sheila Ceccarelli

Exploring form using a reductive or minimalising approach to drawing as a tool to study form. Using simple line drawing to explore sculptural form, students drew constructed sculptures of animal skulls that they’d created the week before Constructing Sculptural Skulls in Heavy Paper and Tape.

Tilly examining her sculpture of a Turtle Skull - using simple line drawing to explore sculptural form — Tilly examining her sculpture of a Turtle Skull – using simple line drawing to explore sculptural form

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