Outline of drawing and drawings explained
The following outline is provided as an overview of and typical guide to drawing and drawings:
- Drawing - activity of making marks on a surface so as to create some images, form or shape.
- A drawing - product of that activity.
What types of things are drawing and drawings?
- Drawing is a type of:
- Activity - something someone does
- Art - an art, one of the arts, is a creative endeavor or discipline.
- Avocation -
- Vocation -
- A drawing is a type of:
Types of drawing and drawings
Drawing techniques
- Automatic drawing -
- Blind contour drawing - this action is performed were the artist looks at the object and does not look at the canvas or sketch pad
- Contour drawing -
- Chiaroscuro - using strong contrasts between light and dark to achieve a sense of volume in modeling three-dimensional objects such as the human body.
- Gesture Drawing - loose drawing or sketching with the wrists moving, to create a sense of naturalism of the line or shape, as opposed to geometric or mechanical drawing
- Grisaille -
- Hatching - consists of hatching, contour hatching, and double contour hatching
- Masking -
- Mass drawing -
- Screentone -
- Scribble -
- Stippling - using tiny dots that become closer to create darker values, and gradually further away to create lighter values
- Trois crayons - using three colors, typically black, white and sanguine chalks
- Drybrush -
Types of draughtsman
Draughtsman or draftsman -
Drawing media and equipment
A medium (plural: media) is a material used by an artist to create a work.
Common drawing types
Common bases for drawing
Other drawing equipment
Principles and elements of drawing
- Composition -
- Elements of art - group of aspects of a work of art used in teaching and analysis, in combination with the principles of art. They are texture, form, line, color, value, and shape.
- Perspective - the principle of creating the illusion of 3-dimensionality on a 2-dimensional source such as paper. This is achieved by using one or more vanishing points (Line perspective), or making the atmosphere greyer, blurrier and smaller as it goes further back (Atmospheric perspective).
- Principles of art - set of guidelines of art to be considered concerning the impact of a piece of artwork, in combination with the elements of art.[1] [2] They are movement, unity, harmony, variety, balance, emphasis, contrast, proportion, and pattern.
Drawing education
Awards
Organizations
History of drawing
Some notable draftsmen and drawings
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) - Focus' on human anatomy and life forms.
- Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) -
- Michelangelo (1475–1564) -
- Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1498 - 1543) -
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Definition from Sanford . 2010-11-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080820013036/http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/study/g_art_principles.html . 2008-08-20 . dead .
- "Principles of Art" Utah Education Network
