13 Types of Drawing Techniques

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SHOWFLIPPER PRESENTS 13 Types of Drawing
Techniques
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Automatic Drawing

• Developed by surrealists to express the
  subconscious mind.
• Drawing is free of rational control where the
  hand moves freely and mark making is largely
  influenced by chance and accident.

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Blind Contour Drawing
This technique involves drawing outline of the
subject without looking at the paper or medium
on which it is drawn.
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Contour Drawing
This technique is the creation of outlines of the
subject like a sketch, which is plain and simple
an outline. The prime focus in on mass and
volume rather than details.
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Chiaroscuro
Renaissance technique where dark and light
contrast is used to create a 3D drawing with
dramatic effect. The principle of this art is the
solidity of the subject is best achieved when
light falls against.
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Grisaille

• This technique mainly uses grey and shades of
  grey as medium.
• Is widely used as under-painting for oil
  paintings or to imitate sculptures in drawing.

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Hatching

• Technique used to create tonal or shading effect
  by drawing closely spaced parallel lines.
• When lines are place at angles to each other, the
  technique is called cross-hatching.

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Masking
This technique is used represent subject as
realistic as it is. Used mainly in cartoons or
graphics or illustrations.
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Mass Drawing

• Technique used to render solidarity of subject to
  tone or color, without more emphasis on line or
  edge.
• Also called weight and modeled drawing, this is
  the basic exercise in figure drawing.

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Screentone
This technique applies textures and shades to
drawing. Often an alternative to hatching.
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Scribble
Also alternatively called as a doodle, this
technique is simple drawing with concrete
meaning. The drawing device is hardly lifted off
the medium.
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Stippling
This technique stimulates varying degrees of
solidarity and/or shading by small dots.
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Trois Crayons
As name suggests, it is drawing made using three
colors red, black and white. Medium used is
either blue, grey or tan.
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Dry-brush
This technique uses a paint brush that has very
little color. Resulting drawing texture is
scratchy. Can be achieved with water-based and
oil-based media.
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