Definition of drawing, types of drawings, examples

1. Drawing

2. What is drawing?
• Drawing is an image making process, utilizing
various marks (typically) in dry media (i.e.
graphite, charcoal, inks, and/or colored
pencils) on paper or another 2-dimensional
medium.

3. History of Drawing
• Drawing to communicate
–Cave Painting
–Hieroglyphics
• Drawing to prepare and design
–Middle Ages (1100)
–Renaissance (1500)
–Modern (Present)

4. • There are 7 main types of drawing

5. Sketch
A sketch captures the essentials of the subject - the overall form and
perspective, a sense of volume, movement and feeling; sometimes a
suggestion of light and shade. A sketch should not be labored or overworked

6. Portrait
This is a painting, drawing, photograph, or engraving of a person, especially one
depicting only the face or head and shoulders.

7. Figure drawing
Life drawing, also known as figure drawing, is the act of drawing a living person. Normally
this means drawing a nude model in real life – i.e. not from a photograph or from
memory or imagination. (Although where impossible, images can be used)

8. Contour drawing
This is an informed line drawing. It can encompass all types of contour drawing like
blind and modified. The quality of the line is what is most important.

9. silhouette
A silhouette is the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape
of a single color, usually black, with its edges matching the outline of the subject.

10. Gesture Drawing
This is a quick drawing that shows movement of the mass of an object. It is usually done
quickly.

11. Caricature
This is a picture, description, or imitation of a person in which certain striking
characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect.

12. Animation
This is a collection of static images joined together and shown consecutively so
that they appear to move.

14. Perspective
This is a system of representing the way that objects appear to get smaller and closer
together, the further away they are. Perspective shows space.

15. Landscape Drawing
Refers to an artwork whose primary focus is natural scenery, such as mountains,
forests, cliffs, trees, rivers, valleys, etc.

16. Still life
This is a collection of inanimate objects arranged together in a specific way

17. Still Life

20. Shading Techniques
• Stippling
• Hatching
• Cross Hatching
• Blending
• Scribbling