Drawing is a way of making a picture . Drawings are created by making lines on a surface. Long lines make up the shapes and small lines make the textures . Drawings can be images of real-life or abstract images.

Drawing has been done for thousands of years, dating back to cave paintings . It focuses on objects made by humans for any number of spiritual , narrative , philosophical, symbolic , conceptual , documentary , decorative, and even functional and other purposes.

Materials [ change | change source ]

Drawing paper is a special material sometimes used for drawing, however many just use paper . Pencils or pens are most commonly used for drawing. However, chalk , charcoal , and many others writing utensils are used.

Shading [ change | change source ]

Shading is the darkening or coloring of a drawing with lines or blocks of color. It can be used to make your drawings more three dimensional . Shading is the process of adding value to create an illusion of form, most importantly the light in a drawing. It should have a highlight (where the light is shining), mid tone (goes darker in color), Core shadow which is the darkest color on your drawing, then there is the reflected light . Reflecting light is where light shines on the object you are trying to draw

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Hatching [ change | change source ]

Hatching is a artistic technique used to create tonal or shading effects by drawing closely spaced parallel lines. There are different types of hatching. There is Parallel hatching, contour , crosshatching, tick hatching, and more. There are many different ways you can do this.

Related pages [ change | change source ]

• Technical drawing

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