Drawing

Drawing is often the foundation for different art techniques and styles because it provides the artist with a guideline. While it’s possible to create great artwork without drawing anything, it’s a good idea for students to learn as much as they can about this technique. Here are some of the distinct advantages of learning how to draw:

The art form

Drawing is an art form and can be used to create stark and intense artwork. Drawn artwork often leans towards being a little more minimalist, which is always fun to explore. This technique can also be used for sketching ideas, preparing diagrams, designing, and planning for more complex art styles.

Exploring different expressions and concepts

Students can explore details, create plans, draw intricate designs, and create likeness of other objects, etc. Drawing allows for the exploration of imaginative and expressive responses and concepts, and preparation can be as little as just pencil and paper to get started on a piece of art.

Different forms of media

Students can use different types of media such as pencils, ink, felt pens, charcoal, chalk, oil pastels, acrylic paint pens and computer applications to create their artwork. Every medium has its own qualities and limitations. By exploring all these options, students can understand different effects they can create and determine what works best for them.

Different techniques

Students learn several drawing techniques like shading, hatching, and crosshatching to suggest lightness and darkness of drawings, as well as volume, depth, and distance. This allows them to create depth and dimension in their artwork, which helps them express ideas more clearly.

Different surfaces

When students learn to draw, they explore how different techniques and media interact with different surfaces. They can use surfaces like cardboard, paper, computer screens, bark, plastic, leaves, rocks etc, to experiment with their art and develop their own aesthetic preferences.

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