About Drawing:

 It should be understood that if drawing is taught and is taught well, 

then drawing can establish an ability that is fundamental toward human expression.

 Learning to draw will also contribute toward a greater understanding of all of the visual arts. Drawing teaches balance and order. The developed habit of looking, or seeing well, and then of expressing 

one’s perception in a graphic way will enlarge your awareness and your perceptions of the world around you. 

Learning to draw with a certain discernment will improve your critical ability to evaluate all things that surround you. With developing a greater skill at observation, will also establish a greater conceptual and critical ability. Drawing helps to find order from chaos. Additionally, your abilities to evaluate other works of art, regardless of the type or style ( other works of art,.......... fine art, any design, architecture, 

fashion, mechanical, etc.) will be vastly improved. Drawing is done with the elements of 

line, value, texture, space, atmosphere, solidity, fluidity and color (even if you are only 

working with black and white). 

We call these elements in any work of art ‘Form’. Good drawing is about good ‘form’ and seeing good relationships! These aforementioned abstract things (line, value, texture, shape, space, etc.) is what drawing is really about. 

Drawing is always abstract. Drawing is not about description, however description 

(detail) can be considered as a ‘formal element’ but not an entity. If description alone was 

what drawing was all about, then illustrations in dictionaries, or photographs could 

accomplish this feat of describing things extremely well. No,........ drawing is about 

design and composition, it is learned by organizing and putting together the abstract 

ingredients in a sensible way......making order out of chaos.