DRAWING

• Figurative artistic movements.

•An art form.
•Drawing are Nonetheless.
•Creative across a wide range of
disciplines.
•Exploring and developing new ideas.
•Use of color, shading, and other
element in addition to line.
•Drawing as an art form, we are
referring mainly to an artist’s use of
line to make picture.
• Drawing can be made as finished
works of art.
•First step preparation of work of art
in another medium.
Examples:
• Painting
•Sculpture
•Architecture

•The study of drawing has also served

as the basis form of training for work in
all of the arts.
PAINTING
SCULPTURE
ARCHITECTURE
 HISTORY OF DRAWING

Michelangelo once famously

declared: “Let whoever may have
attained so much as to have the
power of drawing know that he holds
a great treasure.”
MICHELANGELO
•The history of drawing is as old as the
history of human kind.
•People drew picture even before they
learned how to write.
•Changed and developed through
history.
•This evolution of drawing styles closely
parallels the development of painting.
•The earliest known drawings date from
30,000 to 10,000 B.C..
•They were found on the walls of caves
in France and Spain.
•Drawing are designs that were
scratched, carved, or painted on the
surfaces of primitive tools.
•Ancient Egyptians (beginning about
3000 B.C.)
•Decorated their temples and tombs
with scenes of daily life.
•This drawings had a flat, linear
style.
•Texts written on papyrus (an early
form of paper) were illustrated with
similar designs in pen and ink.
•Greeks are their decorated pottery
vases.
•These great works of art show the
Greeks ability to draw graceful
figures and decorative lines.
•Middle Ages, from about 1400’s art
was produced mainly to glorify God
and to teach religion.
•Painting and Drawing merged in the
illustration of Bibles and prayer
books produced by monks.
•Artists sometimes drew on
prepared animal skin such as
parchment or vellum.
PARCHMENT
VELLUM
•But these were also expensive. For
centuries, artist made their preparatory
drawings on tablets made slate, wood,
or wax.
•Drawing had another important
function during the Middle Ages.
•They helped artists keep a record of
images they frequently used.
•Pen and ink drawings of the human
figure, costume, plants and animals,
and many other forms were collected in
model books. Drawing came to be
considered the foundation for work in
all the arts.
•Art students first trained in drawing
before going on to painting, sculpture,
or architecture.
•Drawing was use a tool for the study of
nature, which was becoming
increasingly important.
•Artists carefully studied the physical
structure of the human body for the first
time and began to draw from nude
models. The portrayal of the human
figure became increasingly realistic.
NATURE
 STYLES OF DRAWING

•Academic
•Cartoon
•Gestural
•Photorealistic
•Pointillism
•Bad Drawing or Childlike drawing
ACADEMIC
CARTOON
GESTURAL
PHOTOREALISTIC
POINTILLISM
BAD DRAWING OR CHILDLIKE
DRAWING
•There are many styles of art
making, like abstraction, and art
nouveau, impressionism and
surrealism, and certainly there are
drawings made under the umbrella
of those aesthetics.
 MATERIALS
• Pencil
• Smooth Bristol
• Board or Paper
• Blending Tortilion and Stumps
• Kneaded Eraser
• Stick Eraser
• Workable Spray Fixative
• Drawing Board
• Ruler
• Acetate Report Covers
• Reference Photos
FIRST REPORTER

• Dela Cruz
• Ando
• Avergonzado
• Insipido
• Gonzalo