Outline of drawing and drawings

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to drawing and drawings:

• Drawing – activity of making marks on a surface so as to create an image, 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 –

Types of drawing and drawings

Story telling

• Anime –
• Comics –
• Cartoon –

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 (usually plain) background, without gradations in shade (darkness) or hue (color).
• 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 (in natural sciences, also referred to biologic, zoologic, or botanical illustration)
  • Mechanical systems drawing–
  • Working drawing–
  • Archaeological illustration–

Drawing techniques

• Automatic drawing –
• Blind contour drawing –
• 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.
• Grisaille –
• Hatching –
• Masking –
• Mass drawing –
• Screentone –
• Scribble –
• Stippling –
• Trois crayons – using three colors, typically black, white and sanguine chalks
• Drybrush –

Types of draughtsman

Draughtsman or draftsman –

• Cartoonist –
• Drafter –

Drawing media and equipment

A medium (plural: media) is a material used by an artist to create a work.

Common drawing media

• 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 –

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 –
• 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.

Awards

• 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 (1452–1519) – Focus' on human anatomy and life forms.
  • Vitruvian Man (c. 1487) –
• Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) –
  • Betende Hände ("Praying Hands", c. 1508) –
• Michelangelo (1475–1564) –
  • Epifania –
• Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1498 - 1543) –
• Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) –
  • Isabella Brant (c. 1621) –
• Jean de Beaugrand (1584–1640) –
• 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 (1832–1883 – )
• Edward Linley Sambourne (1844–1910) –
  • The Rhodes Colossus (1892) –
• M. C. Escher (1898–1972) –
  • Metamorphosis I (1937) –
  • Metamorphosis II (1940) –
  • Reptiles (1943) –
  • Drawing Hands (1948) –
  • Relativity (1953) –
  • Ascending and Descending (1960) –
  • Waterfall (1961) –
  • Metamorphosis III (1968) –
• André Masson (1896–1987) –
• Jules Pascin (1885–1930) –
• Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) –
  • Don Quixote (1955) –
• Jorge Melício (1957- ) –
  • Erotic Feelings (series) –
• Drawings by Douglas Hamilton –

See also

• Outline of painting
• Outline of sculpture

External links

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