Drawing

Drawing is not a new concept; it has been an old elegant fashion of expressing things within a visual form. Every year, the Royal Drawing School receives hundreds of applications for its unique Drawing Year course, which allows postgraduate students to draw night and day, for free, and with the constant support of tutors who also teach public classes in still life, interior, draped figure, and life drawing in ink, charcoal and even iPad.
Whether you're looking for highly detailed pencil drawings, rough sketches, colored pencil drawings, pencil with ink wash, or pencil with watercolor, we're sure that you'll discover works you love within our diverse selection of original pencil drawings for sale by artists from around the world.



An important centre of late 16th century draughtsmanship was Bologna, where Annibale Carracci , together with his brother Agostino Carracci and cousin Ludovico Carracci , founded the "Academy degli Desiderosi" (later renamed "Academia degli Incamminati"), which formed the nucleus of the Bolognese School of painting (c.1590-1630).
Such individuals include the 18th century German engraver Daniel Nicholas Chodowiecki (1726-1801), the 19th century caricaturist Honore Daumier (1808-79), the 19th century graphic artist Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908) best known for his rhyming picture stories (Max und Moritz), and the 20th century Austrian Blaue Reiter painter and illustrator Alfred Kubin (1877-1959).

Not just the masters - Michelangelo at the Royal Academy , Raphael at the Ashmolean , Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing , currently on at 12 different venues across Britain, and culminating in an all-together-now show at the Queen's Gallery, London, in May - but the drawings of Monet and Degas, of Klimt and Schiele and Jackson Pollock, on to Agnes Martin, Bridget Riley and Rachel Whiteread.
In some of these works the similarity to painting is very close; take for example the pastels of the 19th century French artist Odilon Redon (1840-1916), or the work of the 20th-century German Expressionist Emil Nolde (1867-1956), both of which cross the dividing line between drawing and painting.
The curators of the Drawing Center's exhibition, which mixes political prisoners with others convicted of wide-ranging crimes, have struggled with questions of innocence and guilt and how to present enough information about the artists to provide context without casting judgment.

You can put a piece of paper on top of a picture or photo and trace it; you can look at a photo or picture in a book and sketch Gaming it while you're looking at it; or you can create abstract art by making shapes on your paper using whatever comes to mind.
Thus for example drawings of genre scenes were relatively prevalent during the 17th century Dutch Realism School, in 18th-century France and England, and in 19th century France (Honore Daumier). 500 Series is our professional grade drawing paper made with 100% cotton fiber.