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        • OAG Drawing

        • PRACTICAL ENGLISH

          Lesson one: Drawing (materials, the visual elements and types)

          Vocabulary:

          To draw, drawing, sketch, scribble, shade/to do shading, toning, illustrate, to make marks, to measure, rub out/erase, modelling, colouring, overlap, recording, copying, illusion, composition, texture, pattern, view finder, shapes, background, foreground.

          The visual elements: mark, line (gestural, continuous, directional, outline, contour), dot, space and light.

          Types: Observational drawing (study), stylized drawing, idealized drawing, cartoon drawing, drawing from primary or secondary sources

          Subject matter:

          • life drawing – figure(human, animal)
          • still-life drawing (objects)
          • landscape drawing
          • abstract drawing

          Materials: pencil (hard/soft), coloured pencils, felt pen, permanent markers, Indian ink, coloured inks, ballpoint pen(biro), dip pen, charcoal(natural, artificial), Wax crayon, pastels(chalk/oil), paper(stiff, sugar paper, card), masking tape

           

          Process of drawing:

          When we design something, we normally start drawing by sketching initial ideas and then refine the shapes by doing precise outline, possibly by adding more details and shading. If we draw from life, we also start by sketching basic shapes (blocks) and then add more details observing quality of surface (texture, patterns) and tonal values. Tones we can capture by shading using technique of hatch, crosshatch or even smudging. When drawing cartoons we start off doing outline or contours and then depending on requirements we can add colouring and fill all areas.