Henri de Toulouse-Lautrecĭrawing is one of the oldest forms of human expression within the visual arts.

Overview Madame Palmyre with Her Dog, 1897. An artist who practices or works in technical drawing may be called a drafter, draftsman, or draughtsman. A quick, freehand drawing, usually not intended as a finished work, is sometimes called a sketch. In addition to its more artistic forms, drawing is frequently used in commercial illustration, animation, architecture, engineering, and technical drawing. The wide availability of drawing instruments makes drawing one of the most common artistic activities. It is one of the simplest and most efficient means of communicating ideas. Drawing has been a popular and fundamental means of public expression throughout human history. Temporary drawings may be made on a blackboard or whiteboard. The most common support for drawing is paper, although other materials, such as cardboard, vellum, wood, plastic, leather, canvas, and board, have been used. 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.Ī drawing instrument releases a small amount of material onto a surface, leaving a visible mark. 1485) Accademia, Veniceĭrawing is a visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface. For other uses, see Drawing (disambiguation).

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