There are certain advantages of the digital medium over the traditional one. So if I make a drawing like this in a digital medium, everything is more accurate. I can draw it much more quickly. I can change colors right away. I could ink these by hand, but it would take a lot of setup to put the red ink in a special attachment on my compass. And it would be much more deliberate and a more lengthy process.

But it might be more satisfying to do it by hand. I find that the digital medium is more mental, more intellectual. And then the physical medium is more about body awareness about breathing, about lighting. Each one has its beauties. In this course, I'm going to capture everything off of the digital app, because it's much more practical. My body and hands aren't in the way when I'm drawing.

I'm using an iPad with an Apple Pencil. And I really love the Apple Pencil. It's a wonderful input device. It's like, I've gone for decades using a mouse. And I've just rediscovered the joys of the pencil. So if you do have an iPad that supports an Apple Pencil, I think it's a really worthwhile investment.

If you don't, that's fine. You can, if you have an iPhone, you can use this app with your fingers, that's totally fine. The only disadvantage of using your fingers is that it's less accurate, you can't quite see what you're doing because your finger is covering up the place where you're drawing, but it still will work. And in this course, you can draw it by hand, or you can do it in the app. And this this app, by the way, is the best that I've found. And I've tried pretty much every app that's used for drawing.

And the developers of this app have really streamlined it as much as possible. And they keep the experience very close to the traditional experience of drawing by hand. And I really appreciate the fact that we don't have to enter any numbers in this app. It's not Really a CAD program. So you shouldn't be looking for those kind of features like layers and inputting by numbers and so on. It's just not here, we're just trying to replicate the experience of drawing by hand.

And that said, there are certain time saving features in the app. So for example, I'm just going to pan over here with my fingers, just dragging two fingers on across the screen. And I'll just draw in a line segment here. So if I wanted to bisect that line, that is to divide it into two equal segments. Traditionally, I would have to draw a circle and put the compass point on one end point of the line and draw that circle out, let's say to the other end. And then I could do the same thing over here by putting the compass point at this endpoint, and dragging, dragging it over to the other endpoint.

And then I could put my pencil right at this intersection point, make a point. What I would do by hand is I would position the pencil point there and then turn the pencil to kind of drill down and make an indentation. Here in the app, I can just use this intersection tool and just tap there. And it puts a point in very precisely. And then I can draw a line segment here connecting these two dots. And then I can place the point at their intersection.

And I can see that the line has been bisected. Now I'm just gonna undo by tapping on this arrow here several times. And so if I wanted to bisect that using a tool in the app, I could do that by using this button right here. And that works by dragging from one point to the other. And there it is, I bisected the line just like that. So it's kind of cheating in a way, because we don't have to go through all the steps that we would in the traditional medium.

And I was I'm fortunate enough to be old enough to have started my architectural career as a manual draftsman. So I got all that training of how to do it by hand. And I feel enriched by that. So if you've never done things by hand, I really highly recommend trying That out, you're going to learn some new qualities of drawing that you can only get by that manual method. In the app, I have another kind of cheat tool right here next to this one. And I can drag from one point to the other.

And it automatically puts in the perpendicular. So again, it's faster and easier to use the app. But we miss out a bit on the physicality of the experience. So I'll leave it up to you to decide which way you're going to take this course whether you're going to do it by hand with a compass and a straight edge, or if you're going to use this free app to do your drawing.