This definition infers that delineation is different from painting and the colouring of surfaces. While drawing is generally linear in nature, it may include other pictorial elements, such as dots and brush strokes, which can also be interpreted as lines. Whatever form a drawing takes, it is the principle means by which we organize and express our visual thoughts and perceptions. We therefore regard drawing not only as an artistic expression but also as a practical tool for formulating and working through design problems.
The Drawing Process Seeing Vision is the primary sensory channel through which we make contact with our world.
Imagining The visual data received by the eye is processed, manipulated and filtered by the mind in its active search for structure and meaning.
Representing In drawing, we make marks on a surface to graphically represent what we see before us or imagine in the minds eye.
VALUE or TONE
Caravaggio – The Fortune Teller
Black and white photographs of coloured artworks translate hues into a range of grays from very dark to very light.
LINE Line can be considered in two ways. The linear marks made with a pencil, charcoal, graphite, pen or brush, or the edge created when two shapes meet.
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Example of expressive possibilities of pure line.
Calligraphy is the art of fine writing, so highly developed in Arabic cultures, Japan and China.
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Pen strokes
In 1879, the first cave with Stone Age paintings was discovered at Altamira in northern Spain. At the time, it almost defied belief that they were as ancient as we now know them to be, almost 15 000 years old (late Paleolithic period). The paintings were made using natural pigments such as yellow, red and brownish ochre as well as black manganese earth and charcoal.
Altamira cave - Spain
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)
was talented Italian Renaissance architect, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, inventor, geometer, scientist, mathematician, musician, and painter. He has been described as the archetype of the “Renaissance man”, a man infinitely curious and equally inventive. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and universal genius.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo’s drawing for design
Leonardo Da Vinci
Michelangelo (1475-1564) (full name: Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, Renaissance architect and poet While he made few forays beyond the arts, his artistic versatility was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and fellow Florentine Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Albrecht Dürer(1471-1528) is the greatest exponent of Northern European Renaissance art. While an important painter, in his own day Dürer was renowned foremost for his graphic works. Artists across Europe admired and copied Dürer's innovative and powerful prints, ranging from religious and mythological scenes, to maps and exotic animals.
Hans Baldung known as Grien(1484-1545) St.Christopher- pen in black and white on greenish light brown paper
Pieter Breugel the elder (about 1525-69)
Annibale Carracci 1560 - 1609
Antonio Allegri da Correggio 1489-1534
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780 - 1867) At the encouragement of his artist father, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres moved to Paris in 1797 to study under David. It was during this stage in his career that Ingres adopter the Neo-classical style of his mentor and his influence, engraver John Flaxmann. He won the Prix de Rome in 1801, and afterwards was a sought-after portrait artist. Ingres’ work after 1806 in Italy was a blend of Classical style with Romantic subject matter.
Dominique Ingres
Dominique Ingres
Honore Daumier 1808-1879 French caricaturist, painter and sculptor. During the course of his life he produced over 4,000 lithographs of political and social comment. He became blind in old age, and was rescued from poverty by Corot who was one of his many artistic admirers. Degas collected his work which was appreciated by Delacroix and Baudelaire as well as, perhaps not surprisingly, Balzac. He was also greatly admired by the 20th century Expressionists, who applauded both his radical stance and the freedom with which he used materials."
Homore Daumier
Edgar Degas (1834 –1917) was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, and drawing. His early study of classical art prefaced a body of mature works which convincingly placed the human figure in contemporary environments. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism.
Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606-69) Elephant-Chalk
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606-69)
Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973) was a Spanish painter and sculptor. One of the most recognized figures in 20th century art, he is best known as the cofounder, along with Georges Braque, of cubism. It has been estimated that Picasso produced about 13,500 paintings or designs, 100,001 prints or engravings, 34,000 book illustrations and 300 sculptures or ceramics.
Picasso’s first love Fernande Olivier
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Eduard Thony 1866-1950
Franklin Booth
A. Durer - Hands Study - drawing
A. Durer – 6 pillows-drapery - drawing
Ink & wash
coloured pen ink drawing
Crisscross lines
Crisscross lines
Scribble lines
Scribble lines
Parallel lines or hatching
Parallel lines or hatching
Crosshatching lines
Crosshatching lines
Crosshatching lines
Crosshatching lines
Crosshatching lines
Stippling dots
Stippling dots
Stippling dots
Wavy lines
Wavy lines
Drapery study
Drapery study
Drapery study
Still life
Still life on ochre
Portrait of a baby
Portrait of a woman Charcoal on paper 30 x 42 cm
Charcoal and watercolour portrait study
Charcoal and colour pencils
crucifixion ink and charcoal
Indoor – blowup waterfall - charcoal
Negative – positive space
Heinrich Kley
T.S. Sullivant
T.S. Sullivant
Aubrey Beardsley
• Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (21 August 1872 – 16 March 1898) was an English illustrator and author. He was the most controversial artist of the Art Nouveau A era, renowned for his dark and perverse images and the grotesque erotica, which were the main themes of his later work. Some of his drawings, inspired by Japanese shunga, featured enormous genitalia. His most famous erotic illustrations were on themes of history and mythology, including his illustrations for Aristophanes’ Lysistrata and Wilde's Salome.
Aubrey Beardsley
Aubrey Beardsley
Aubrey Beardsley
Aubrey Beardsley
John Bauer
John Bauer (1882 –1918) was a Swedish painter and illustrator best known for his illustrations of Bland tomar och troll (Among Gnomes and Trolls).
John Bauer
John Bauer
John Bauer
John Bauer
Arthur Rackham
Fantasy by size –proportion, and association
Fantasy by size –proportion, and association
Arthur Rackham
Fantasy by alteration, simplification, and stylization
Poem visual interpretation
Poem visual interpretation
Poetry or art
Anthropomorphism and textural interpretation of subject
Stylization , proportion, and variation
Size, dominance, direction, and visual dynamics
Proportions, stylization, and alteration
Experimental approach
Line Art
Line Art
Line Art
Line Art
Line Art
countour drawing
Line Art
Line Art
Line Art
Line Art
Line Art
Line Art
Line Art
Contour Drawing
Blind Contour Drawing
Blind Contour Drawing
Continuous Line
Continuous Line Drawing
Gesture Drawing
Gesture Drawing
Silhouette Drawing
Silhouette Drawing
