This document discusses illustrations, photographs, and drawings. It provides information on what each of these visual elements are, including that illustrations are created by artists to visualize subjects, photographs are images captured with a camera, and drawings involve using tools to mark a surface. The document also discusses how these visual elements can help readers understand ideas and concepts in texts by providing depictions or additional context that words alone may not provide. It notes that illustrations and drawings are sometimes used when photographs are not available or to simplify complex topics.

1. Illustrations,
photographs and
drawings
-By
Ruby

2. Illustrations
• Illustrations are
drawings.They are
created by an
artist. Illustrations
can be very basic,
or they can be very
detailed.

3. • An illustration is a visualization or a
depiction of a subject made by an artist,
such as a drawing, sketch, painting,
photograph, or other kind of image of
things seen, remembered or imagined,
using a graphical representation.

4. • Pictures help readers to understand ideas. Why do
you think the author chose to illustrate this text
instead of using a photograph?

5. • Illustrations can do
what photographs
cannot.
• Often, artists will use
illustrations to show
things from the past
or simplify ideas.

6. • How does the illustration help a
reader to understand this text?

7. Look for illustrations in your books. Think
about:
-Why did the author use an illustration
instead of a photograph?
-Is the style of the illustration appealing?
-What can you learn from the illustration?

8. Photographs
• A picture made using a
camera, in which an
image is focused on to
light-sensitive material
and then made visible and
permanent by chemical
treatment, or stored
digitally.

9. • How does the photograph help the
reader understand this text?

10. Look for photographs in your books. Think
about:
-Why did the writer include this photo?
-How does this help the reader to
understand key ideas?
-What can you learn from looking at the
photo?
-Does the text make sense without the
picture?

11. Drawings
• Drawing is the language of architecture.
• It is the language that we use to
communicate our design and intentions.
• We "write" messages to be "read" by
viewers and audience.
• If the messages is not "written" properly, it
will not be read or it will be read
incorrectly.

12. • Drawing is a form of visual art in which a
person uses various drawing instruments
to mark paper or another two-dimensional
medium.
• Instruments include graphite pencils, pen
and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils,
crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, various
kinds of erasers, markers, styluses,
various metals (such as silverpoint), and
electronic drawing.
• An artist who practices or works in
technical drawing may be called a drafter,
draftsman, or draughtsman.

13. • A drawing instrument releases small
amount of material onto a surface, leaving
a visible mark.
• The most common support for drawing is
paper, although other materials, such as
cardboard, plastic, leather, canvas, and
board, may be used.

14. • Temporary drawings may be made on a
blackboard or whiteboard or indeed almost
anything.
• The medium has been a popular and
fundamental means of public expression
throughout human history.
• It is one of the simplest and most efficient
means of communicating visual ideas.The
wide availability of drawing instruments
makes drawing one of the most common
artistic activities.

15. • Drawing is one of the
oldest forms of
human expression,
with evidence for its
existence preceding
that of written
communication.
Drawing as a Form of
Communication :

16. • It is believed that drawing was used as a
specialised form of communication before
the invent of the written language,
demonstrated by the production of cave
and rock paintings created by Homo
sapiens sapiens around 30,000 years ago.

17. • These drawings, known as pictograms,
depicted objects and abstract concepts.
• The sketches and paintings produced in
prehistoric times were eventually stylised
and simplified, leading to the development
of the written language as we know it
today.