Chapter 5

Drawing

As shown in the book, there are two major divisions of drawing

materials, dry mediums and fluid mediums. Dry Mediums used when
drawing consist of, silverpoint, pencil, chalk, pastel, and wax crayon.
Silverpoint was predominately used in the middle ages and involved
dragging a silver tipped object through a surface covered with a
ground. In the 1500's, the pencil was created, a thin rod of graphite
encased in wood or paper. The pencil grew to replace the silverpoint.
Charcoal chalk and pastel all have similar effects in the fact that once
dragged across a surface, their residue is left behind. However,
charcoal has a far richer history as it has been used for thousands of
years. Finally, there are crayons. Crayons include any materials in stick
form that are used for drawing. This encompasses charcoal, chalk,
pastels and crayons. The primary fluid medium for drawing is ink.
There are many different tools that can be used with ink and they all
produce very different products, the first being the pen. The pen has
been used for thousands of years and allows a controlled flow of ink to
be used in order to draw. Next is the brush. brushes come in all shapes,
sizes and materials. When dipped in ink, the brush is able to partially
absorb the ink and release it when it is pressed against an object. The
size and type of brush largely determines what the ink will look like
when transferred. Lastly, ink can be diluted by adding water which

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Drawing

creates a medium that is known as wash. Wash is lighter in color than

ink and is generally used as a filler or to "color inside the lines" that are
created by ink.