Outline of 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.
• ** Visual art -
• * Avocation -
• * Vocation -
• A drawing is a type of:
• * Art -
• ** Work of art -
• *** Illustration dash;

  Types of drawing and drawings

Story telling

• Anime -
• Comics -
• Cartoons -
• Manga -

  Non - story telling

• Academy figure -
• Caricature - pictorial representation of someone in which distinguishing features are exaggerated for comic effect.
• Fashion illustration -
• Figure drawing -
• Gesture drawing -
• Line art - images that consist of distinct straight and curved lines placed against a background, without gradations in shade or hue.
• Portrait -
• Scratchboard -
• Silhouette -
• Silverpoint -
• Sketch -
• * Courtroom sketch -
• * Croquis -
• * Doodle -
• * Multi-Sketch -
• * Study -
• * Scribble -
• Stick figure -
• Technical drawing/technical illustration -
• * Architectural drawing -
• * Electrical drawing -
• * Engineering drawing -
• * Plumbing drawing -
• * Structural drawing -
• * Scientific illustration
• * Mechanical systems drawing-
• * Working drawing-
• * Archaeological illustration-

  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

• Cartoonist -
• Drafter -

  Drawing media and equipment

Common drawing types

• Pastel -
• * Oil pastel -
• Charcoal -
• Colored pencil -
• Conté -
• Crayon -
• Graphite - can be pencils which are small or large sticks similar to charcoal
• Marker -
• Pen and Ink -
• * India ink -
• * Technical pen -
• Sanguine -
• Pencil

  Common bases for drawing

• Canvas -
• Paper - most common base for drawing.
• * Sketchbook -
• * Tracing paper -
• Plaster -
• Metal -
• Walls - typically for murals.
• Wood -

  Other drawing equipment

• Compass -
• Eraser -
• * Kneaded eraser -
• Drawing board -
• Fixative -
• French curve -
• Protractor -
• Ruler -
• * Rolling ruler -
• Stencil -
• Stump -

  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, or making the atmosphere greyer, blurrier and smaller as it goes further back.
• 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. They are movement, unity,harmony, variety, balance, emphasis, contrast, proportion, and pattern.

  Drawing education

• Atelier -
• Art school -
• Life class - Observational drawing from a real life model, usually a nude model.
• Magnet Art school programs -

  Awards

• Payout Jerwood Drawing Prize -

  Organizations

• Association of American Editorial Cartoonists
• Cartoonists Rights Network, International
• Centre for Recent Drawing
• Drawing Center
• National Cartoonists Society
• Royal Drawing Society
• Seattle Cartoonists' Club

  History of drawing

• Lineography -
• Plumbago drawing -

  Some notable draftsmen and drawings

• Leonardo da Vinci - Focus' on human anatomy and life forms.
• * Vitruvian Man -
• Albrecht Dürer -
• * Betende Hände -
• Michelangelo -
• * Epifania -
• Hans Holbein the Younger -
• Peter Paul Rubens -
• * Isabella Brant -
• Jean de Beaugrand -
• Aubrey Beardsley -
• Jacques-Louis David -
• Pierre-Paul Prud'hon -
• Edgar Degas -
• Théodore Géricault -
• Francisco Goya -
• Jean Ingres -
• Odilon Redon -
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec -
• Honoré Daumier -
• Vincent van Gogh -
• Käthe Kollwitz -
• Max Beckmann -
• Jean Dubuffet -
• Egon Schiele -
• Arshile Gorky -
• Paul Klee -
• Oscar Kokoschka -
• Alphonse Mucha -
• Gustave Doré
• Edward Linley Sambourne -
• * The Rhodes Colossus -
• M. C. Escher -
• * Metamorphosis I -
• * Metamorphosis II -
• * Reptiles -
• * Drawing Hands -
• * Relativity -
• * Ascending and Descending -
• * Waterfall -
• * Metamorphosis III -
• André Masson -
• Jules Pascin -
• Pablo Picasso -
• * Don Quixote -
• Jorge Melício -
• * Erotic Feelings -
• Drawings by Douglas Hamilton -