Madame Palmyre with Her Dog, 1897. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Line drawing in sanguine by Leonardo da Vinci
Drawing is a visual art which makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoals, chalk, pastels, markers, stylus, or various metals like silverpoint. An artist who practices or works in drawing may be referred to as a draftsman or draughtsman.
ARTE 320
During our studio time, we used different grades of pencils to draw a replication of the image of a tree. Each grade produced a different effect; the soft, black-marking pencils were useful for shading whereas the hard, light-marking pencils were better for making sharp and continuous lines.
A set of pencils ranging from a very hard, light-marking pencil to a very soft, black-marking pencil usually ranges from hardest to softest as follows:
| 9H | 8H | 7H | 6H | 5H | 4H | 3H | 2H | H | F | HB | B | 2B | 3B | 4B | 5B | 6B | 7B | 8B | 9B |
| Hardest | → | Medium | → | Softest | |||||||||||||||
Artists:
Richard McLean
Roxanne Baldwin
LESSON PLANS
http://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/dwclp.htm
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Arts/Visual_Arts/ARA0200.html
