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Object type: painting : Medium: watercolour over pencil: Dimensions: 31 by 26cm., 12.25 by 10.25in. Inscriptions: titled and signed l.r.; "Fanny"/ F. Cadogan Cowper; inscribed on the old backboard 'Sketch of a girl in crinoline dress/ by Frank Cadogan Cowper A.R.A/ 1 Edwardes Square Street/ Kensington/ Fanny Stevens, the shoemaker's daughter of Fairford, Glos./
A sketch may serve a number of purposes: it might record something that the artist sees, it might record or develop an idea for later use or it might be used as a quick way of graphically demonstrating an image, idea or principle. Sketching is the most inexpensive art medium. [5] Sketches can be made in any drawing medium.
File: Original Sketch of Marilyn Monroe wearing her pink dress for the musical Number "Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend" this sketch by William Travilla showes Monroe wearing matching pink gloves.jpg
Charcoal and coloured pencils are also used in hand-colouring of photographs and the terms crayon, pastel, charcoal, and pencil were often used interchangeably by colourists. Hand-coloured photographs sometimes include the combined use of dyes, water-colours, oils, and other pigments to create varying effects on the printed image.
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The artist will often start with a graphite pencil to sketch or outline the drawing, then the final line work with a pen or brush, and permanent ink. The ink may be diluted with water to produce gradations, a technique called ink wash. The pencil marks may be erased after the ink is applied, or left in place with the dark inks overpowering them.
Pencil drawings were not known before the 17th century, [1] with the modern concept of pencil drawings taking shape in the 18th and 19th centuries. [1] Pencil drawings succeeded the older metalpoint drawing stylus, which used metal instead of graphite. [1] Modern artists continue to use the graphite pencil for artworks and sketches. [1]
Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man (c. 1485) Accademia, Venice. Drawing is a visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface. The instruments used to make a drawing are pencils, crayons, pens with inks, brushes with paints, or combinations of these, and in more modern times, computer styluses with graphics tablets or gamepads in VR drawing software.