Drawing skills: drawing with 3D

Art and design

Drawing across disciplines

Drawing skills: key concepts techniques and exercises

Drawing skills: experimental mark-making and breaking the rules

Drawing skills: materials equipment and surfaces

Drawing skills: observational line and tone

Drawing skills: freehand and visual thinking

Drawing skills: space layering and composition

Drawing skills: digital drawing

Drawing skills: drawing with light

This teacher-led unit deepens pupils' skills within endorsements. Through short workshop activities, pupils further explore a range of materials and techniques. They develop studies focused on the elements and principles of art in practice.

Foundation workshops: developing skills

Using materials like wire or string to make lines in space

Which of these could you use to make a 3D drawing?

To create 3D lines and forms that exist in space

Why might an artist use wire instead of pencil for drawing?

3D drawings use physical materials to represent line in space

What is the main difference between a 2D contour drawing and a 3D contour drawing?

True or false? 3D drawing is only about copying a flat sketch in another form.

Starter Quiz

What does "contour" mean in art?