Outline of drawing and drawings

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 –

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 –