Why Psiax? Psiax is the name of one of the Greek vase painters who introduced the great change in drawing with the technique of red figures at the beginning of the 5th century B.C. This is one of the most remarkable aspects of the art of drawing and its adaptation to a technological, business, ritual and social need, in one of the most important periods of Greek culture.

If we were to use an analogy with the life of Psiax in Classical Greece, and we lived in a period of black figures, how would we view the innovation in image representation in the artefacts that we use predominantly or that may come to be used? When produced by digital or manual means, what is being innovated and built? How are these images accessed? What characterises them and how does representation gain innovative or qualifying aspects of the artistic experience?

The aim of this editorial is to promote and disseminate studies on the role that drawing can play in our time, whether as a process of understanding the world, as a means of learning and teaching, or as an essential characterising element of artistic objects that already exist or are to be created.

Our aim is to publicise studies on drawing as an image, considering that drawing as a plastic art, whether manual or digital, as well as being made up of a set of elements typical of its specific material condition, is, above all, an image that occupies places in the infinite universe of other material, photochemical and electronic images that surround us today.

It's important to link the past of drawing - authors, modalities, themes, trends, schools - with the urgencies and sense of progress and ideology, with the hypotheses that are being raised, with the needs that range from survival to dreams, recovering the distant memory of drawing and bringing it up to date, where new understandings of a basic art of being human are required.
The publication of monographic, analytical, doctrinal, programmatic, methodological and critical studies is of interest, as long as it establishes a relationship between the past and the present. In other words, it is important to place the various perspectives in debate, in harmony, in confrontation, in parallel, in analogy with the problems, endeavours, realities, works and theories of our time, whether in the field of pedagogy, drawing theory and practice, or in the field of artistic expression.

Psiax includes an international call for entries and blind peer review. It adopts practices aimed at broadening contributions and their consequent dissemination, reinforcing the scientific and artistic reliability of the content presented and contributing to the quality of research carried out in these fields of knowledge.