The RVJ is an indispensable tool for visual creativeness, a portable lab for all developing thinking, a good way of connecting hand and brain working with a range of materials and approaches. The main uses are to Collect, Organise, Develop, Edit, Refine and Evaluate.
Drawing gives you a physical connection to the work you are doing while giving you a good base to work through ideas and develop your thinking. instead of thinking of ideas and trying to remember them later on you can just write down and sketch out what you are thinking giving you both a description of the idea and a visual diagram to look and encourage more ideas for development. For me drawing through my ideas is quite engaging and gives me a good start on what to do next or where to go next with my ideas.
Leonardo Da Vinci had a good idea of thinking on the page so to speak, with diagrams of his machines which he drew he would draw them on a sheet of paper when he thought of his ideas. This is a good way of expressing your ideas through drawings.
When drawing most people will shun their work and wont use half of the ideas they come up with as our work is limited by our own self consciousness, but this is letting your inner critic take over and have judgement over your work instead of letting yourself flow and produce ideas out of your creativeness, drawing isn’t just about putting pen to paper, there is a range of materials to use when creating art.
random sketchbook drawingsReflection
When it comes to reflecting on your work, the RVJ is a good workspace for visual thinking and for creative processing. The RVJ challenges the mind, it engages you with questions, it evaluates your work, challenges your work and compares it with previous work, while provides contrast and organising.
While reflecting on your work your main focus is too look through your book and write about what you did, how well you did it, does it work, why you chose to do that and could it be better.
What you need most is good visual language and to understand your work, to annotate your work is the most important as without annotation images and sketches can be boring and can pass as just an image or a random sketch with no meaning or purpose. there needs to be linking of images and description to give a good focus point and meaning to all the images.
reflection image from google
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