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Metfan725 · **on:** Jun 23, 2018

Discuss the significance of drawing as an art medium during the Renaissance.

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Identify the purposes of drawing throughout history.

What will be an ideal response?

djpooyouma · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 23, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. It allowed artists to study poses and body parts from life to use for a work of another medium.
2. It allowed artists to make life studies of motifs to use in a finished composition.
3. It allowed artists to make preparatory sketches of entire compositions.
4. It allowed artists to provide a cartoon of the finished composition to be executed in another medium.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. to create preparatory studies, working out motifs and compositions for execution in another medium
2. to provide a final guide, in the form of a cartoon, to follow in creating a work in another medium
3. to use in illustrating comic books and graphic novels
4. to create independent works of art, such as images in pastel