Untitled 1967
Tate
© The estate of Eva Hesse, courtesy Hauser & Wirth, Zürich
Ink, pencil, crayon, charcoal and chalk are the most commonly used materials, but drawings can be made with or in combination with paint and any other wet or dry media.
Drawing
Drawing is essentially a technique in which images are depicted on a surface by making lines, though drawings can also contain tonal areas, washes and other non-linear marks
Untitled 1967
Tate
© The estate of Eva Hesse, courtesy Hauser & Wirth, Zürich
Related materials and techniques
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Chalk
Chalk is a soft powdery white or off-white writing or drawing material in crayon form, generally used on a blackboard ...
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Charcoal
Charcoal is a black crumbly drawing material made of carbon and often used for sketching and under-drawing for paintings, although ...
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Graphite
Graphite is a metallic grey writing and drawing material most commonly used in pencil form – though graphite powder is ...
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Ink
Ink is an ancient writing and drawing medium in liquid or paste form, traditionally black or brown in colour – ...
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Pastel
Pastel is a coloured drawing medium made from pure coloured pigment mixed with a binder to form a stick
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Vanishing point
The point at which receding parallel lines viewed in perspective appear to converge
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Chiaroscuro
Chiaroscuro is an Italian term which translates as light-dark, and refers to the balance and pattern of light and shade ...
Selected artists who draw
TateShots
TateShots: Quentin Blake
'I want everything I do to look spontaneous. It's not that I think illustration should necessarily be like that ...
Tate Etc
Sculpture and the scalpel: Barbara Hepworth: The Hospital Drawings
Many of us are familiar with Barbara Hepworth’s drawings of surgeons and staff in operating theatres, which were done ...
J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours
Read about one of Britain’s great Romantic artists
Tate Etc
‘The Process of Drawing is like Writing a Diary: It's a Nice Way of Thinking About Time Passing’: Rachel Whiteread
To coincide with Tate Britain’s exhibition of the artist’s drawings, as well as the objects from her personal collection that ...
Tate Etc
Thinking drawing: Vija Celmins
Vija Celmins was born in Latvia in 1938, fled with her family to Germany in advance of the Soviet army ...
TateShots
TateShots: Michael Landy
How Michael Landy made a day job out of drawing
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Tate Papers
Drawing in the Dark: Involuntary Drawing
Susan Morris approaches the subject of involuntary drawing from the point of view of an artist trying to make a ...
Tate Papers
Cinematic Drawing in a Digital Age
Developed in relation to works by Tacita Dean and William Kentridge, this article explores the way in which the arrival ...
Selected artworks in the collection
Rebecca Horn Unicorn
1968–9
Günter Brus, Arnulf Rainer No, Daphne, No!
1984
Drawing at Tate
Tate Britain
Exhibition
Rachel Whiteread Drawings
8 Sep 2010 – 16 Jan 2011
Rachel Whiteread Drawings; past exhibition at Tate Britain
Tate Liverpool
Exhibition
Tracing the Century: Drawing as a Catalyst for Change
16 Nov 2012 – 20 Jan 2013
Tracing the Century: Drawing as a Catalyst for Change exhibition at Tate Liverpool 16 November 2012 – 20 January 2013
Tate Britain
Exhibition
Sculpture and Drawings by Henry Moore
2 May – 29 Jul 1951
Sculpture and Drawings by Henry Moore; 1951 exhibition at Tate Gallery