the lines, dots, scratches and drawings created by drawing tools

How artists make marks

Art and design

Expressive mark-making

Mark-making with ink and water

Textured marks with charcoal

Mark-making and patterns

Building drawing machines

In this unit puils will investigate, explore and use a range of materials and  techniques to create drawings. They will make art expressively and spontaneously, exploring texture and pattern with a range of media before before creating drawing machines.

Mark-making: using drawing tools and techniques

True or false? Artists can use their whole body to help them to draw.

{{}} is when an artist uses drawing tools to create marks on a surface.

Which of the following images show a drawing tool?

True or false? When drawing, artists only use their hands.

any tool you can use to mark marks with  

when an artist uses drawing tools to create marks on a surface

Exit Quiz

Which image shows zig-zag lines?