Pencil drawing

Pencil drawing is a part of drawing that is executed with a pencil composed of wood and graphite. Pencil drawing is considered "successor" of metallic drawing of medieval period.[1]

Example of Pencil Drawing

History

The evidence of "pencil drawing" does not occur before the 17th century. The modern concept of pencil drawing took shape in 18th and 19th century.[1]

Modern period

In modern period artists have continued to use the graphite pencil for artworks and sketches.[1] Modern computer software such as Line Integral Convolution (LIC) can help in creating pencil drawing on computer.[2]

Further Readings

  • Day, Walton (1894). The History of a Lead Pencil. J. Dixon Crucible Company.

References

  1. pencil drawing.
  2. Mao, Xiaoyang; Nagasaka, Yoshinori; Imamiya, Atsumi (2002-07-21). "Automatic generation of pencil drawing using LIC". ACM SIGGRAPH 2002 Conference Abstracts and Applications. SIGGRAPH '02. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery: 149. doi:10.1145/1242073.1242162. ISBN 978-1-58113-525-1. S2CID 30082265.
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