What is Complex Drawing

Athos Bulcão is a renowned Brazilian artist recognized for his outstanding surface work with tiles on murals of Brasília's buildings, the 1960s-designed modern capital of Brazil, and other localities. The beauty of his work can be expressed by how it has become part of the city landscape and people's everyday encounters. It is also very contemporaneous regarding how he used logic to organize his tiles, using rotation and pattern distribution, allowing chance and error while architectural surfaces are assembled. Explaining logic and making it into tile distribution is difficult to explain to students; using paper prototypes helps, but Common Digital Art coding takes it a step further in the complexity of tiling art. This chapter proposes a method for students to learn those skills and also to learn to develop their logic if they intend to create authorial tiling works in murals.