beggars would ride

This is a blog about drawing but I work with a broad definition of what it is to draw and posts include examples of animation, petroglyphs, print-making, tattooing, embroidery, and even land art. The main thing is that the work should have a strong graphic quality.

[pwlanier]

SKETCH OF RAPPORT FOR TEXTILES PRINT. 1920-ті

SAIENKO OLEKSANDR

Watercolour on paper. 19.5 × 19.5 сm

Dukat

[met-drawings-prints]

The Presentation of the Infant Jesus in the Temple, Sebald Beham, early to mid-16th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Drawings and Prints

Rogers Fund, 1962 Size: Diameter 8 15/16 in. (22.7 cm) Medium: Pen and brown ink, gray and some pink wash, red chalk

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/334784

[speciesbarocus]

Claes Jansz. Visscher - Amsterdam (c. 1608).

[thatsbutterbaby]

Wacław Szpakowski - E2, 1926.  Ink on tracing paper, 35 x 43.8 cm.  

[bookofkhidr]

Plaster decoration in Ghadames house in Libya, photographed by Eric Lafforgue.

[mutant-distraction]

Located in the Air Massif of Niger are two of the largest animal rock petroglyphs in the world. Known as the Dabous Giraffes they have been dated to about 8,000BCE. While the artist will forever remain unknown, this area of Niger has over 900 similar carvings of animals and humans. The period of these glyphs (12,000-7,000BCE) was known as the Neolithic Subpluvial, a time when the Sahara was a much wetter savannah that stretched thousands of miles and could sustain animal and human life. The giraffes are carved into a sandstone outcrop and depict a large male and smaller female. Shifting desert sands possibly covered the glyphs for millennia before they were discovered in 1987.

[artist-gris]

Harlequin at Table, 1918, Juan Gris

[monkeysinarthistory]

‘Oscott Psalter’, England ca. 1265-1270 (British Library, Add 50000, fol. 101r)

[horizontaldrawing]

santiago ramón y cajal. glial cells of the cerebral cortex of a child, 1904 ink and pencil on paper, 7 ¾ x 5 7/8 in. credit: cajal institute (csic), madrid

[thatmiumiu]

nature morte aux fleurs by henri matisse ♡

[mechattack]

trom Processed World, 1984.

thanks to @danskjavlarna

[lascitasdelashoras]

Espiral de Fibonacci

[thunderstruck9]

George Grosz (German, 1893-1959), Pariser Arbeiter [Parisian workers], 1924. Brush and pen and India ink on paper, 49 x 63.9 cm.

[inland-delta]

Ludwig Becker,  Gullomalla pigeon, 1861

[yama-bato]

Huguette Caland — AWARE

 Self portrait, 1993  

[artist-bosch]

A comical barber scene, Hieronymus Bosch

https://www.wikiart.org/en/hieronymus-bosch/a-comical-barber-scene

[aic-drawings]

Florilège des Amours de Ronsard, Henri Matisse, 1948, Art Institute of Chicago: Prints and Drawings

Print and Drawing Club Fund Size: 349 × 245 mm (image); 381 × 282 mm (sheet) Medium: Lithograph in sanguine on cream wove Japanese vellum

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/230949/