Outline of drawing and drawings

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

Drawing is a visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface, or a digital representation of such. Traditionally, the instruments used to create a drawing include pencils, crayons, Conté crayons, and ink pens, sometimes in combination. More modern tools include styluses, mice and graphics tablets, and gamepads in virtual reality drawing software.

A drawing is a 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

• Academy figure –
• Caricature – pictorial representation of someone in which distinguishing features are exaggerated for comic effect.
• Comics –
• Fashion illustration –
• Figure drawing –
• Gesture drawing –
• Hand-drawn animation –
• 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–

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.

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 (Line perspective), or making the atmosphere greyer, blurrier and smaller as it goes further back (Atmospheric 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.
• 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 –

See also

• Outline of painting
• Outline of sculpture

References

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