The types of artistic drawing have emerged as a response to the need of humans to graphically represent emotions, ideas, stories, objects, people and moments through art.
Artistic drawing is a way of expressing what is perceived by the senses; it can occur in a representative-real or abstract way. This has been developed for thousands of years and there are numerous recognized artistic exponents that have existed throughout history.
The types of drawings stand out in all the currents and styles of the same, since they are constant in the artistic expression; this despite all the diverse cultural origins and various eras that art has lived through.
For example, artistic drawing found in Leonardo da Vinci one of its most recognized representatives. Of da Vinci portraits and landscapes are known, but also sketches of scale machines, plans, among others; grouping in his works even technical drawing.
This type of drawing was born around the 15th century. It is believed that one of the pioneers in this type of drawing was Jacopo Bellini, from whom several notebooks with landscape sketches were found.
From then on, great exponents of the genre emerged with only landscapes. Some like Domenichino, Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin, mixed landscapes with mythological and classical themes.
The best known exponents of the genre were Camille Corot and Van Gogh.
In the genre of fantasy, a large number of exponents met, to show visionary and surrealist themes for the time in which they were (between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries).
Scenes such as the Rafael Grottoes, allegorical of peasant scenes, among others. This surreal genre still in the nineteenth century, found a worthy representative in the French Gustave Moreau.
In this genre the artist is able to represent through drawing, the scene that some writer has narrated in a text.
In this sense, there are exponents who have given images to the most famous texts, to give the reader a better explanation. Botticelli was a great representative when he painted Dante's Divine Comedy.
This genre is closely linked to the genre of illustrations. It is said that it has to do with the exaggerated representation of the visual features that one has of a person or situation.
The finished cartoon points to Annibale Carracci, as its creator between the 15th and 16th centuries.
A great exponent was Leonardo da Vinci, although some say that the best of all time was Honore Daumier.
This genre is identified by the representation of the still life. Objects such as fruits, flowers, among others. Here is the use of shadows to create realism.
Some of its exponents have been recognized not as draftsmen, but as painters, because the differences between the two techniques are very small..
These artistic representations have been recognized since the 17th century. One of its main exponents was Jan van Huysum.
In this genre the representation of profiles is styled. To achieve better finishes, the portraitists used the use of colored chalk..
Portraits found great popularity in the 15th century, with their main exponents being Pisanello, Jan van Eyck and Durer..
The latter was the one who immortalized the Emperor Maximilian. The evolution of this genre incorporated the use of colored crayons at the beginning of the 20th century.
It is an evolution of photorealism. It is a type of artistic drawing that emerged in the United States at the end of the 60s of the last century in which the artist seeks to capture a reality with the greatest possible realism.
The aim is to equal or even exceed what is captured in a photograph, so the technique requires a mastery within the reach of very few.
Some references of this type of painting are Richard Estes, Chuck Close, Ralph Goings, John Baeder or Don Eddy.
Artistic drawing that is created with aerosols on murals or other elements of the urban environment (floor, stairs, blinds, gates, etc.). They are works, in general, of great color and on a large scale.
Since its inception it has generated great controversies, because in many sectors it is considered a vandalism and not an artistic work.
Some of the best known graffiti artists are Banksy, Zephyr, Taps & Moses, Lee Quiñones or Kenny Scharf.
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