MARCELO H.
DEL PILAR NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
TLE-ILLUSTRATION 9-QUARTER 4 -WEEK 7
IDENTIFYING THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL CONCEPT OF DRAWINGS
>What I know?
Directions: Write TRUE if the given statement is correct and FALSE if it is not. Write your answers on a
separate sheet of paper.
1. Communication is a language that exists across cultures for all that can see and associate.
2. Concentration can help you focus on drawing.
3. Drawing takes coordination between your hands, eyes and legs.
4. Drawing allows the creator to open one’s expressive vents and lets emotion become recorded in
the marks of your drawing.
5. Drawing is sad and should be sadder.
6. In 35,000 BCE, charcoal and ochre cave pictograms appeared in modern day France and Spain.
7. In 1761, Stabillo is established in Nuremberg, Germany.
8. In the year 2012, Raphael’s drawing, ‘Head of a Young Apostle’ was sold for $47.8 million.
9. Drawing nowadays seems to be suspended in this in-between condition of objectivity and
instrumentality as image and information and as communication and science.
10. The field of drawing has been, at least during the last eight years, increasingly
extended and intensified to include drawing production and drawing
reflection.
11. Being reckless in drawing can lead to accuracy.
12. Drawing trains your muscles to respond in a certain way.
13. Drawing prevents an individual to express his/her feeling.
14. Drawing is a good way to resolve composition problems.
15. One of the advantages of drawing is that it can improve eye-hand coordination
and that improves your ability to draw accurately what you see.
>LESSON
Importance of Drawing
Drawing is more than just doodling on a sheet of paper. Sketching is a form of visual thinking, a
way of expressing emotions, and recording moments in time. There are many benefits to be found if
you practice it daily.
1. Visualization
We can map out plans, diagrams, and concepts for what we want to bring into the world, or
we can make images of how a system works. On the more emotional side, drawing allows the
creator to open one’s expressive vents and let emotion become recorded in the marks of his/her
drawing. Often feelings are too complex for us to understand, and art helps record and express
them.
2. Coordination
Drawing takes coordination between your hands, eyes, and brain. If you play basketball, you
develop hand-eye coordination and gross motor skills. Drawing works the same way, except for your
fine motor skills. The more you practice drawing, the better you get, and the better your hand, eyes,
and brain can harmonize together. Your hands become an instrument to help you record the world
around you.
3. Cerebral benefits
In today’s world, it is so easy to be distracted by social media and our digital devices. Our
brains get a temporary endorphin release from these diversions, and it is easy to devote a large
amount of time to them. Unfortunately, this can make us less industrious in our free time. Drawing is a
great release, and because we are using our brain while we are drawing, we build new connections
and pathways in our brain. Both sides of the brain actively participate, as the left side is responsible
for logical thinking and the right supplies the creativity. As a result, our brains grow.
4. Analytical Skills
When drawing, whether consciously or not, we are making decisions about what we are
depicting. This improves decision-making skills and helps with problem-solving. If a drawing isn’t going
the way it was intended, an artist has to be able to step back and make rational decisions about
how to fix it. It is also important to be able to step back and decide what is and isn’t working in a
drawing, what step to take next, and what it is we like about it.
5. Concentration
If you want your drawing to go the way you intend, you need to focus on what is going on in
your drawing and what you are looking at. If you are drawing from life, you want to be present in the
moment, and record the beauty of everything that is going on around you. The relationship between
you and the subject matter is one of the most important parts of what is going on in the piece.
6. Understanding
Drawing allows us to better understand our subject matter. That understanding could be the
form of the object, the gentle curve of a line, or how we feel and respond to whatever the subject
matter is. The more you draw something, the more you remember it and know it. Our minds begin to
grasp more of what it really is rather than our conceptual symbols of it.
7. Developing an “eye”
Some people believe that artists “see” differently. This may or may not be true, but those who
draw from life regularly are practiced in picking up on proportions, relationships, and compositions.
They are often good judges of tonal relationships, as well as of measurements and distances.
8. Communication
Visual language exists. As humans, we read a drawing as being something based on the
symbols that are given to us and the concept we form through them. This language exists across
cultures for all that can see and associate. Just think about how universal signs are.
9. Mental Attitude
Some people feel most at ease when drawing. It is often used for therapy and stress relief.
Creating something from nothing also makes us feel productive, and that helps us feel good about
ourselves. Being present in the moment and focused during a drawing session can be a feeling similar
to meditation. We only get down on ourselves during a drawing if we let our ego get in the way and
try to compete with others or with ourselves.
10. Pleasure
What could be better than being able to fill an empty page and bring our thoughts and
reflections to life? Drawing is fun, and should be enjoyed.
History of Drawing
35,000 BCE Charcoal and ochre cave pictograms appear
in modern day France and Spain.
3,000 BCE Ancient Egyptians cover the walls of their tombs
with linear drawings of daily life.
1100s-1300s Europeans begin making their first paper.
France’s first paper mill opens in 1338.
1413 Filippo Brunelleschi demonstrated the
geometrical method of perspective by painting
the outlines of various Florentine buildings onto a
mirror.
1420s-1430s The majority of Florentine artists (and throughout
Italy) begin to use geometrical perspective in
their paintings.
1564 Graphite comes into widespread use following
the discovery of a large graphite deposit in
Borrowdale, England.
1616 Astronomer Galileo explains the changing
phases of the moon through his observational
drawings.
1761 Faber-Castell is established in Nuremberg,
Germany
1830s1840s Honoré Daumier, best known for caricature and
satire drawings of political figures, creates some
of his most influential works.
1867 Master draftsman JeanAuguste-Dominique
Ingres dies from pneumonia, leaving behind
4,000 drawings.
1890s Aubrey Beardsley creates Art Nouveau ink
illustrations, most famously for Oscar Wilde's play
Salome.
1913 1913
Norman Rockwell’s first published magazine
cover illustration, Scout at Ship’s Wheel, appears
on Boys’ Life September edition.
1979 Betty Edwards publishes her revolutionary
drawing process book, Drawing on the Right
Side of the Brain.
1987 Copic sketch makers make their international
debut.
2012 Raphael’s drawing ‘Head of a Young Apostle’
sells for $47.8 million.
Theory of Drawing
Drawing is a skill and that it can be acquired by anyone who wants to learn it. Some of you
may think that artistic ability is a God given talent and that not everyone has it. However, there is
nothing that cannot be learnt through practice.
If we want to draw, and draw well, there are certain challenges that we have to face. In the
beginning of the drawing process, make yourself realize that what you are actually doing is
practicing. It is a necessary part of training and the goal at this stage is not to create a masterpiece,
but rather to make something that is better than your last attempt.
Another important part of drawing theory is to remember that drawing is not always about
realistic representations. If you are able to make something look similar to its original, it shows that you
have great perception skills and pencil control. However, it is not necessarily the best form of
communication; it is just one style of drawing among many. We can never deny that drawing realism
and accurately capturing what you truly see is the starting point for any serious artist. So, begin by
learning to see the subject and control your pencil. Always remember, that when drawing
something, the function of your eyes is more crucial than what your hand does on the paper with the
pencil. Once you learn to break the object you see into lines, curves and angles, you can draw
anything. It may help to write the old saying, "practice makes perfect" and tape it somewhere that
you will see and constantly be reminded that your drawing skill will improve with the time and effort
that you put into it.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Drawing
This list includes sketching, drawing as a way to compose finished work, or drawing from life
with the goal of improving skill. In other words, drawing for the sake of drawing.
Advantages
1. It enhances your ability to actually see what you’re looking at, rather than letting your
memory or imagination fill in the blanks.
2. It improves eye-hand coordination and that improves your ability to draw accurately what you
see.
3. It trains your muscles to respond in a certain way. The more often you draw circles, for
example, the more natural the movements become.
4. It’s a good way to resolve composition problems or to simply relax.
5. For those who process life visually, it’s a great way to deal with the circumstances of life—
good and bad.
Disadvantages
The only possible disadvantage of drawing regularly is that if you’re not careful about drawing
accurately, you may fall into the habit of drawing poorly that is making the same drawing mistake
over and over and thinking it’s your style or the way your subject is.
Even this can be corrected or avoided altogether by careful observation of your subject and careful
attention to detail.
>Activity 1
Directions: Draw a like symbol (
>Activity 2
Directions: Identify ten (10) reasons why drawing is good for you. Write your answers on a
separate sheet of paper.
1. 6.
2. 7.
3. 8.
4. 9.
5. 10.
>Activity 3
Directions: Identify what is being described in the statements below based on the advantages and
disadvantages of drawing. Draw a