Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Drawing and Painting

Vocabulary

Pictograph (graph: to write) (pinto: to draw)

Ideograph (expressing an idea)

Media/mediums:  Different materials produce a different type of mark. You have to make sure that your material you’re using is for the right type of drawing.

Dry Media: Pencil/graphite, metal point, scratchboard, charcoal, chalk, crayon, pastel, etc.

Liquid Media: pen and Ink, brush and ink, etc.

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Charcoal: 

Carbon Charcoal

Willow Charcoal

Chalk, Crayon and Pastel: You have a pile of pigment oil that you get from a number of plants. (Kind of like flour or sugar) You have to add something like wax, linseed oil, etc.

Cartoon: is a preliminary drawing to working out problems or design problems like a road map or rough draft to your final work. Maybe consider it a study.

“Lead” Pencil or Graphite

“H” means “Hard”, “B” means “black”

Tooth of the Paper— Texture of the paper, bumps in the paper

Three reasons why people draw:

• Information
• Illustration
• Expression

Why do people draw for INFORMATION? Blueprints, instructions, anatomy, etc.

Why do people draw for ILLUSTRATION? Trying to give a different look to something that’s familiar. Sometimes to sell a product. Ex: propaganda

Why do people draw for EXPRESSION? Doing paintings because it’s important to express yourself. It doesn’t matter if you sell your art, it matters if you express yourself. Ex: Expressive drawings

Basic Notes

If we can draw we are always better off. It’s great to challenge ourselves because it’s educational. Drawing is the hardest thing but it’s also the most natural thing.

Your tool that you use while drawing makes  a very big difference.

Drawing comes from a place that precedes language. We can use drawing to communicate. 

Three reasons why people draw:

Information 

Illustration

Expression

Media/mediums:  Different materials produce a different type of mark. You have to make sure that your material you’re using is for the right type of drawing.

Dry Media: Pencil/graphite, metal point, scratchboard, charcoal, chalk, crayon, pastel, etc.

Liquid Media: pen and Ink, brush and ink, etc.

Chalk, Crayon and Pastel: You have a pile of pigment oil that you get from a number of plants. (Kind of like flour or sugar) You have to add something like wax, linseed oil, etc.

Normally you can use sand paper for you chalk pastel. Generally people won’t use something slippery like wax paper, artists generally use a harder paper. 

Doodling?

People doodle mindlessly.

Do people draw with their brain or their hand?

People draw with their brain.

People put their ideas into physical reality when they doodle.

Quotes

“To suggest is to create to describe is to destroy.”

-Robert Doisreau