Essential drawing skills for all

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Drawing across disciplines

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Drawing skills: key concepts techniques and exercises

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Drawing skills: experimental mark-making and breaking the rules

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Drawing skills: materials equipment and surfaces

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Drawing skills: observational line and tone

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Drawing skills: freehand and visual thinking

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Drawing skills: space layering and composition

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Drawing skills: digital drawing

I can create a digital drawing using layers, pressure sensitivity and tonal variation to produce a refined still-life image.

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Drawing skills: drawing with light

I can use long exposure photography to create expressive light drawings that demonstrate control of composition and light.

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Drawing skills: drawing with 3D

I can create a 3D drawing using wire or other materials to represent line, contour and form in space.

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