Outline of drawing and drawings
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.
- ** 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 -