What is drawing?
It is more than just representing by line in black and white. It can be several things:
It is a personal expression of a physical or mental experience in terms of line and tone.
It is pictorial thinking with pencil on paper.
A technical method of creating the illusion of solid forms in two-dimensions.
Sometimes they have a finality – they are neither “of” or “for”, but are ultimately drawings.
What prompts the artist to draw?
Simple reasons:
to lay down a base illustration for painting, pastel, etc
to pass time
to convey simple thoughts
rapid notes of a thing seen in a flash
Complex reasons:
“to explore, untidily, the dark undergrowth of the mind.”
“to work out, with mathematical precision, the stresses and strains of a pictorial idea.”
“memories, in a visual shorthand, of the artist’s own devising”.
- Excerpts from "How to Draw" by Adrian Hill, Pan Books Ltd
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