Drawing Course

1. The Preliminary Sketch
Measuring, composition,
organizational line,

2. Why Do Artists Draw?
• 1. To Record:
thoughts, concepts,
quickly
Example of an
Artist’s sketchbook:
A way to keep
drawings and notes
together for an artist.

3. • 2. Artists draw to
practice their
technical
skills.
• Or to try out the
media before
beginning a final
work.

4. • 3.Drawing is
an immediate
form of
expression for
artists.

5. Educational Use of Drawing
• Artists use drawing
to learn how to
recreate what they
see

8. Preliminary sketch
• Preparatory drawing that
precedes the final
finished drawing
• Useful for working out
problematic areas and
design elements
• COMPOSITION: the
spatial property resulting
from the arrangement of
parts in relation to each
other and to the whole

9. Ingres preliminary drawing for a painting

10. Setting up the composition

14. THUMBNAIL SKETCHES: Crude, small pencil drawings
used to develop the initial concept for a design

19. Organizational line drawings
1. Create three thumbnail sketches.
2. Try to get everything you see in the still life.
3. Choose one to enlarge.
4. Define your drawing by creating an imaginary
crop off point around the area.
5. With different level of pencils, draw the still life
working from lighter to darker pencil.
6. Sketch out main areas of the composition first,
with little to no details.
7. Work your way to darker pencils, lines and
more definition.

20. Varieties of Line
• contour line. The
visible border of an
object in space
• Describes the
changes in volume,
shape, texture, color
and light with the
use of line.

23. Cross-hatching.
Two or more sets of roughly parallel and overlapping lines,
set at an angle to one another, in order to create a sense of
three-dimensional, modeled space