Drawing versus digital: a category error

Riley, Howard (2025) Drawing versus digital: a category error. International Journal of Education through Art, 21 (3). ISSN 17435234 (In Press)

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Abstract

This article challenges the assumption that traditional drawing is less powerful than digital means of producing images. The power of digital imaging technology is widely perceived to render traditional drawing instruction less relevant in visual arts programmes at all levels. This assumption is the result of what Gilbert Ryle called a ‘category mistake’, corrected by understanding that drawing is the progenitor of digital means, rather than a different ontological category. The article proposes that drawing pedagogy remains an efficient, economical means of nurturing an intelligence of seeing; subsequent applications of such intelligence have facilitated all technologies, including the relatively recent digital means of image production and manipulation.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Drawing, pedagogy, digital imagery, category mistake, intelligence of seeing, Visualcy
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > NC Drawing Design Illustration
Divisions:	Institutes and Academies > Wales Institute for Science & Art (WISA) > Academic Discipline: Art & Media
Depositing User:	Howard Riley
Date Deposited:	05 Sep 2025 09:01
Last Modified:	05 Sep 2025 09:15
URI:	https://repository.uwtsd.ac.uk/id/eprint/3904

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