![]() ![]() Known as a master in painting, Da Vinci also produced many drawings and kept many journals filled with his experiments, anatomical drawings, and preparations for his bigger works. Da Vinci was known to follow people and to observe and sketch them if he found the person’s face interesting. One of his most famous sketches, The Vitruvian Man, is a study of the proportions of the human body, linking art and science in a single work that has come to represent Renaissance Humanism. One of the most influential artists of the Renaissance period, Leonardo Da Vinci’s drawings, foreshadowed the technological and scientific developments of today. If we look further into art history, we are faced with the dominance of drawings used for a better understanding of the world around us. The cave-man paintings, the first pencil sketches produced by the human hand, were used for ritual purposes and for ‘entertainment’ in a sense. We must acknowledge the fact, that the storytelling, so important for human beings, was from the beginning of the human society, expressed by the pictures and its timeless language. The birth of major scientific discoveries, the first experimentation in medicine, or the first image of the human body, all is born out of lines, sketches and paper. The first impulse of a creative process usually is a scribble or a sketch. The world around us, expanding at a fast pace and producing image after image, object after object, is born out of lines. ![]() Image via / Right: Leonardno da Vinci - Sketch for Muscles and Skeletons. ![]() Left: Leonardo da Vinci - Study for Sforza Monument, 1488-9. See an interesting selection of drawings available on our Marketplace! But, is this really true? Are the pencil sketches really deemed unimportant and irrelevant for the development of art today? What place does the pencil sketches hold for the artists and what is happening in the art market today in relation to this form of expression? We do see the rise of interest in the medium of drawing, so maybe, pencil sketches are not dead at all, and maybe they are still important, like they were in the past, not just for the authors but also for the public as well, that seems to share the love for this form of expression. The pencil sketches and the elaborate drawings that develop from the first lines, drawn on whatever material is found first by the artist, is often perceived as just an element in the creative process. The ability to draw was seen as the first and an essential skill of any artist. “A line is a dot that went for a walk.” - Paul Klee ![]()
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