Tuesday 5 October 2010

history of drawing

the very first drawings were from cavemen in prehistoric times. they were very limited in detail and were made from very simple shapes. there were only ever two colours used ; black and brown. but they were noticeable as to what they were. their drawings were made to tell story's as they didn't have an alphabet yet.
and they were always found on walls.
later drawing developed and there were more colours used. their drawing style changed and they had more
detailed pictures. also they had developed a type of paper called papyrus this made it easier to pass on the information because it could be stored and looked after. they started to develop their own type of alphabet so pictures weren't use as much as the prehistoric times to tell story as they could just wright it.
then when we get to the roman times the drawings obtained allot of detail and tones of different colours. in this ERA they also started to use shading and lighting in their pictures. the people were very detailed and were realistically drawn. this was drawn on a canvas as they developed something better that papyrus. there are no words on this drawing as they no longer used drawings to tell story's or information because they had a fully developed alphabet that was used in allot of places   
soon people started to just draw for work or hobby. and because the drawings were no longer needed for telling stories they could be made to look as strange as they like to capture peoples attention for selling purposes. or the artist could just let their imagination flow and because of this Meny drawing styles were created e.g abstract, surrealism, cartoon, fantasy and many more

then when technoligy developed we were able to draw on the computer. as the technoligy got better and better ,people were able to create deatailed realistic images of people but because of the technoligy then they were able to add things to the people that would not normaly be there e.g wings and because of the high quality technoligy it looks so real that it could be a photo

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