- "Drawing is a visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface."
This subfield encompasses the use of pencils, charcoal, ink, and other media to create 2D images and sketches.
Perspective: A method of representing the way objects appear to the eye, including distance and size relationships.
Composition: The arrangement of elements within a work of art, including balance, unity, and focal points.
Proportions: The size relationships between different parts of an object or figure, including human anatomy.
Shading: The use of light and dark values to depict volume and depth within a drawing or painting.
Values: The range of lightness, darkness and tonal variation within a work of art or scene.
Line Weight: The thickness or lightness of lines used to create a drawing, often used to indicate depth or hierarchy.
Negative Space: The areas around and between objects in a drawing or painting that create the illusion of form and space.
Color Theory: The study of how colors interact, including their properties, harmonies, and contrasts.
Texture: The way the surface of an object or material appears, including smoothness, roughness, and pattern.
Gesture Drawing: A quick, fluid drawing technique used to capture the essence of movement and motion in a subject.
- "The instrument might be pencils, crayons, pens with inks, brushes with paints, or combinations of these, and in more modern times, computer styluses with graphics tablets."
- "The most common support for drawing is paper, although other materials such as cardboard, vellum, wood, plastic, leather, canvas, and board have been used."
- "Temporary drawings may be made on a blackboard or whiteboard."
- "Drawing has been a popular and fundamental means of public expression throughout human history."
- "It is one of the simplest and most efficient means of communicating ideas."
- "The wide availability of drawing instruments makes drawing one of the most common artistic activities."
- "In addition to its more artistic forms, drawing is frequently used in commercial illustration, animation, architecture, engineering, and technical drawing."
- "A quick, freehand drawing, usually not intended as a finished work, is sometimes called a sketch."
- "An artist who practices or works in technical drawing may be called a drafter, draftsman, or draughtsman."