Saturday, March 21, 2015

Some Essential Facts About Narrative Drawings

By Lelia Hall


Art works have been widely used for the last two centuries. Narrative drawings is a form of visual art basically used to narrate a story or portray what happened earlier or past events and ongoing story by use of pictures, sculptures, etc. This art derived its history from the stone age when the early man used drawings to give meaning to a scenario.

With the improvement in modern technology, there has been a big variation in the nature of descriptive art. Comparing with the ancient art, it used to be done without following any given protocol or guidelines. This made the translation and interpretation of the information depicted more difficult and complex.

The modern art has change all that these complexities came with. Every aspect of art is done systematically and in a chronological manner. You can easily capture the idea in the paintings and drawings. It also encompassed the use of quality graphics to come up with graphics and sculpture that make more sense.

Examples of these descriptive arts can be seen very early in the history of arts. They give evidences to certain occurrences that happened long back. Egyptian tombs and the Greek vase paintings are good examples from the 16th century that describe both the mythological and factual events.

During ancient past, before the introduction of literacy, most of these unique drawings were done with a concurrent descriptive style. With the development of literacy, art has as well developed and pictures were well organized like words on a paper which helped in defining the direction of the story more easily.

Another form of is the continuous narrative which illustrates different scenes of a story in one frame without any dividers. This is where the sequence of events within a story is defined through the repetition of the main character. It emphasize in the change in movement by use of repeating characters as indicators of scene change in a story.

Paintings were mostly used in traditional art to cover most of the descriptive scenes. It is easier to represent these in paintings than in sculpture. Illustrating some figures in sculpture becomes more complex and may involve expert work and also may be hard to interpret. There are different types of narratives used today. Artists come up with their own ways to portray stories, represent the space and shape time. Artwork is never limited to one type of story, it is a diversified discipline.

Progressive narratives represents a single scene without repetition of characters. However, multiple actions are taking place representing the passing of time in a particular story. It not interpreted as a group of instantaneous events but rather a sequence independent on its location, it is mostly used in comic strips.

The nature of these special drawings is diverse depending on the creativity and intentions of the artist and the type of narrative to be represented. It can be used in different circumstances in real life. Different cultures apply descriptive art to preserve and represents their cultural undertakings, it is also used in academic perspective for the purpose of empowering students.




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