Types Of Drawing

Just as word is important to a poet and writer, and an algorithmic formula is synonymous to a mathematician, similarly drawing is the heart or rather the soul of an artist’s and designer’s expression. An imperative tool for communication and thinking, drawing is a creative intent used for expressing the feelings and thoughts of an artist. Being a tremendously effective means of exhibiting one’s views, drawing operates on several levels which make it important for the artist and designer to comprehend these differences and achieve certain level, in order to become a skilled professional. Thus, a drawing can comprise of a sketch, plan, design, graphic representation, etc. with the help of pens, pencils, or crayons, depending upon its nature and purpose. Given here are different kinds of drawings that one can take up and excel in. Check them out in the lines herein.

 

Different Kinds Of Drawings                                               

 

Life Drawing

Drawings that result from direct or real observations are life drawings. Life drawing, also known as still-life drawing or figure drawing, portrays all the expressions that are viewed by the artist and captured in the picture. The human figure forms one of the most enduring themes in life drawing that is applied to portraiture, sculpture, medical illustration, cartooning and comic book illustration, and other fields.

 

Emotive Drawing

Similar to painting, emotive drawing emphasizes on exploring and expressing different emotions, feelings, moods, self, time, etc. These are generally depicted in the form of a personality.

 

Sketching

Sketching is a kind of drawing that puts forward the instant thoughts of an artist. Thus, it is a rough freehand and loose drawing which is not considered to be a finished piece of work. Sketching, usually, results out of visualizing and immediately capturing them onto paper.

 

Analytic Drawing

Sketches that are created for clear understanding and representation of observations made by an artist are called analytic drawings. In simple words, analytic drawing is undertaken to divide observations into small parts for a better perspective.

 

Perspective Drawing

Perspective drawing is used by artists to create three-dimensional images on a two-dimensional picture plane, such as paper. It represents space, distance, volume, light, surface planes, and scale, all viewed from a particular eye-level.

 

Geometric Drawing

Geometric drawing is used, particularly, in construction fields that demand specific dimensions. Measured scales, true sides, sections, and various other descriptive views are represented through geometric drawing. 

 

Diagrammatic Drawing

When concepts and ideas are explored and investigated, these are documented on paper through diagrammatic drawing. Diagrams are created to depict adjacencies and happenstance that are likely to take place in the immediate future. Thus, diagrammatic drawings serve as active design process for the instant ideas so conceived.

 

Illustration Drawing

Drawings that are created to represent the lay out of a particular document are illustration drawings. They include all the basic details of the project so concerned clearly stating its purpose, style, size, color, character, effect, and others............................................................................................................

What you See is What you Think, and What you Think is What you See!

I understand that many think of this ability (skill at drawing) as unique only to certain 

individuals, and that these individuals are either blessed by the ‘gods’, or have inherited 

some uncanny and unnatural ability. This notion couldn’t be farther from the 

truth. Simply said .....if you have the ability to script out your name on paper and 

with a pencil or pen, then you have enough coordination and hand and eye control 

to draw. AND.....not only draw, but draw skillfully. Drawing is a language, and you need 

to practice this language just as you would a piano, or math, or the art of writing. I am 

sure that you already know, if you were to practice a musical instrument everyday, even 

just a little bit, you will eventually learn to play guitar ( for example) or learn to 

composed. As the old saying goes....”Practice makes perfect’.

 The thought that is very important, or maybe even better said ...the thing that is 
necessary to learn to how to draw, is that you................. must want to draw. Have some 
faith in what I am telling you.


You must listen, and you must be willing to take advice,
you must fight against any preconceptions,
you must not draw like you think you are suppose to draw.
You must stop saying to yourself ‘I can’t, or I have no talent”,
you must be clear headed and keep advice and all suggestions in mind while drawing.
You must think things out clearly and not just work intuitively.
You must understand that learning to draw is just like learning math or anything else 
that is both abstract and conceptual....again .....drawing is an intellectual act.
You must not attempt to finish and to seek out details before you’ve begun.
You must develop an orderly process and method of organization,
You must ‘see’ well,
You must measure,
and you must practice and do the assignments.