Drawing

**Drawing**
Drawing is a large category of art which results when a mark making tool makes a mark on a surface. Mark making tools can include everything from Pencil, Charcoal, Colored Pencil, Crayons, Markers, and Ink to Sand/Dirt and Metal. The resulting marks can include Calligraphic or Graphic Images.

Blogs:
8 Drawing Exercises that Every Artist Should Practice: A guide to simple drawing exercises to build proficiency drawing. @http://todayinart.com/2009/12/22/8-drawing-exercises-that-every-artist-should-practice/  Make Your Own Scratchboard (ala Scratch Off Ticket Tutorial):  A tutorial for the creation of scratch off tickets which can be expanded to form homemade scratch board or interactive sections of artwork. This post includes textual instruction.  []

Books:
Edwards, B. (1986). Drawing on the Artist Within. New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc.

Sale, T, & Claudia, B. (2004). Drawing: A Contemporary Approach. Belmont,CA: Thompson Wadsworth.

Handouts:
About Ball Point Pens  Description, History and Usage Guide <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://www.ehow.com/about_5033025_ball-point-pens.html <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Drawing Hands: <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Description of hand parts and structure. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://www.cedarseed.com/fire/handstut.html <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Illustrated Glossary of Drawing Words and Terms: <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Description of drawing vocabulary with images. <span style="color: #ae0909; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://www.drawspace.com/lessons/view_lesson.php?id=a01 <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> What are Oil Pastels? <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Description, History, and Usage Guide <span style="color: #ae0909; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://www.ehow.com/about_5047687_oil-pastels.html <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">What are the Parts of a Calligraphy Pen? <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Description of Parts (sorry no pictures) <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://www.ehow.com/facts_4856266_what-parts-calligraphy-pen.html

<span style="background-color: #fffcfa; color: #8e061a; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Webpages:
<span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">A Life Time of Color (Tutorial/Activities): <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> //One Point Perspective:// Basic Introduction/Review of One Point Perspective with good illustrations and simple language. <span style="color: #ae0909; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/main.taf?p=2,1,1,8 <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Two Point Perspective:// Basic Introduction/Review of Two Point Perspective with good illustrations and simple language. <span style="color: #ae0909; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/main.taf?p=2,1,1,15 <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Marker and Tracing Paper Activity:// Simple activity where students draw on tracing paper, color with markers and then smudge with tissue paper. Intriguing results. <span style="color: #ae0909; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/main.taf?p=2,1,1,14 <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Thumbnail Sketches:// Introduction to why and how to use thumbnail sketches. <span style="color: #ae0909; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/main.taf?p=2,1,1,13 <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//3-D Forms:// Basic geometric shape construction, good 3-D project starter activity. <span style="color: #ae0909; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/main.taf?p=2,1,1,1 <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Facial Proportions:// Over simplified directions for the creation of a face, good for beginner looking for guidelines. <span style="color: #ae0909; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/main.taf?p=2,1,1,5 <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Contour Line Drawing:// Describes basic contour line drawing information with examples of is and is not drawings. <span style="color: #ae0909; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/main.taf?p=2,1,1,3 <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Blind Contour Line Drawing:// Describes the reasons for blind contour and how to set up blind contour drawings. <span style="color: #ae0909; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/main.taf?p=2,1,1,2 <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Shades and Tints with Colored Pencils:// Good images of mixing tints and shades with colored pencils. <span style="color: #ae0909; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/main.taf?p=2,1,1,12 <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Art is Fun: <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;">An index of drawing and painting lessons on subject, style, and media. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://www.art-is-fun.com/painting-lessons.html <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Artshow: <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;">An index of drawing resources and related links. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://www.artshow.com/resources/drawing.html <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Art Studio Chalkboard: <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Perspective, Shading & Composition Tutorials and Information <span style="color: #ae0909; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://studiochalkboard.evansville.edu/draw.html <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Drawing Development in Children: <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> A Brief overview of Victor Lowenfeld and Betty Edwards <span style="color: #ae0909; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://www.learningdesign.com/Portfolio/DrawDev/kiddrawing.html <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Drawing in One Point Perspective: <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Very Simple Interactive Exercise with One Point Perspective: <span style="color: #ae0909; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://www.olejarz.com/arted/perspective/index.html <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Drawspace.com: <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Drawing Lessons on line divided by skill level. Also, vocabulary guides and terms. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://www.drawspace.com/ <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">eHow: <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//How to Make Invisible Ink:// Use Lemon Juice and a Hair Dryer to embed secrets in your art <span style="color: #ae0909; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://www.ehow.com/how_5028360_make-invisible-ink-kids.html <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//How to Make Invisible Ink:// Two methods (Method 1- Steps 1-4 & Method 2- Steps 5-8) for embedding secrets in your art: <span style="color: #ae0909; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://www.ehow.com/how_5500458_make-invisible-ink-kids.html <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//How to Use Prismacolor Pencils:// Basic How to for the use and blending of colored pencils. <span style="color: #ae0909; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://www.ehow.com/how_4854851_use-prismacolor-pencils.html <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> EOL: <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> German (Translated) Beginner Drawing Online Tutorial: Step by Step Webquest to learn the basics of drawing realistically. <span style="color: #ae0909; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://gemutlichkeit.org/ <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Learn to Draw and Paint: <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> //Charcoal and Crayon:// How to use charcoal and crayons to draw- each discussed separately. <span style="color: #ae0909; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://www.learn-to-draw-and-paint.com/charcoal-crayon.html <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Pastels:// How to use chalk pastels- Author calls them Pastel paintings although they are really drawings. <span style="color: #ae0909; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://www.learn-to-draw-and-paint.com/pastel-painting.html <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Marvin Bartel's Portrait & Figure Drawing: <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Introduces figure and portraiture with helpful teaching tips and activities. <span style="color: #ae0909; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://www.bartelart.com/arted/figure&portrait.html <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Mike Sibley- Fine Arts: <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> //Answer and Fact-Finder:// See the answer and Fact Finder section at bottom of the introduction for techniques, terms, tools guides, etc. <span style="color: #ae0909; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://www.sibleyfineart.com/tipsndx.htm <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Negative Drawing:// Tutorial for using negative space to design a drawing, shifting focus off of object. <span style="color: #ae0909; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://www.sibleyfineart.com/tutorial--draw-grass.htm <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//How To Draw an Ellipse:// Introductory piece with references to perspective on how to draw an ellipse. <span style="color: #ae0909; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://www.sibleyfineart.com/tutorial--draw-ellipses.htm <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Stanislav Prokopenko: Tutorials <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Blog postings from Prokopenko about drawing various features of the human body. Eyes <span style="color: #ae0909; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://www.stanprokopenko.com/blog/2009/05/draw-eyes/ <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Ears <span style="color: #ae0909; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://www.stanprokopenko.com/blog/2009/07/draw-ears/ <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Hair <span style="color: #ae0909; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://www.stanprokopenko.com/blog/2010/03/draw-hair/ <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Head Multiple Angles <span style="color: #ae0909; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://www.stanprokopenko.com/blog/2009/05/draw-head-any-angle/ <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Lips <span style="color: #ae0909; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://www.stanprokopenko.com/blog/2009/07/draw-lips/ <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Nose <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://www.stanprokopenko.com/blog/2009/06/draw-nose/ <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> The Studio: <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Webquest designed by three students in Alberta, Canada, Maryland, US, and Singapore, China about the basics of realistically drawing the face and figure. <span style="color: #ae0909; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: right;">@http://library.thinkquest.org/C005470F/technique/index.html <span style="color: #ae0909; font-family: Georgia,serif;">

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="color: #6c1342; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 80%; text-align: center;">Created By Danielle Slentz and Rachel Stockbridge Fall 2009