Drawing Media
Introduced| English | Meaning |
|---|---|
| media/ˈmiːdiːə/ | The materials an artist works with. |
| dry media/draɪ ˈmiːdiːə/ | dry media |
| wet media/wet ˈmiːdiːə/ | wet media |
| tooth/tuːθ/ | The texture of a paper or other drawing surface that helps it hold pigment. |
| hatching/ˈhætʃɪŋ/ | A drawing technique using closely spaced lines to create tone or shading. |
| cross-hatching/krɒs ˈhætʃɪŋ/ | Shading with layers of lines drawn in different directions. |
| stippling/ˈstɪplɪŋ/ | A drawing technique that builds tone or texture using many small dots. |
Marks on a surface
- Media 媒介 are the materials an artist works with.
- Drawing media make marks directly on a surface — the foundation of most 2-D work.
- They split into dry and wet types.
Dry and wet
- Dry media 干性媒介: graphite (pencil), charcoal, conté, chalk and oil pastel.
- Wet media 湿性媒介: pen and ink, brush and ink, markers.
- The paper's tooth 纸纹 (texture) changes the line and value possible.
A map of drawing media: dry to wet, line-led to tone-led
Dry or wet drawing media?
Sort each drawing medium as dry or wet.
Building value with many parallel lines is called...
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Hatching builds value with parallel lines; cross-hatching layers them.
The tooth of the paper affects the marks a dry medium can make.
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Rougher tooth grabs more pigment, giving grainier, darker marks.
Building value from many tiny dots is called ____.
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Stippling uses dots to build value and texture.
Select all dry drawing media.
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Pencil, charcoal, and oil pastel are dry; brush and ink is wet.
Match each technique to its marks.
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Hatching = parallel; cross-hatching = crossed; stippling = dots.
Mark-making
- Techniques include hatching 排线, cross-hatching 交叉排线, stippling 点画, and blending.
- These build value and texture from many small marks.
- Drawing is used both to investigate ideas and to make finished works.
Drawing is not only for finished pictures. Artists use quick drawings to investigate ideas — testing compositions, studying light, planning a painting. In the AP portfolio, process drawings are valuable evidence of your thinking, not just throwaways.
To draw dark, even shadow, an artist lays parallel hatching lines, then crosses them with cross-hatching for deeper value. On rough paper (high tooth), the same pencil gives grainier, darker marks than on smooth paper.
Drawing media make marks on a surface. Dry media (pencil, charcoal, pastel) and wet media (pen, ink, markers) behave differently, affected by the paper's tooth. Mark-making techniques — hatching, cross-hatching, stippling — build value and texture.
Write from charcoal shadow and an ink edge
- Charcoal makes a soft shadow about 8 cm wide.
- Ink makes one sharp edge.
A student uses charcoal for a soft shadow about 8 cm wide and ink for one sharp edge. Are both drawing, and why use two tools?
Different tools make different marks on the same surface.
What are the charcoal and the ink being used for?
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Charcoal and ink are both drawing tools. Each fits a different mark.