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Barrie Jervis

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Having just looked at the drawings gallery, I see that a large proportion of contributors are submitting paintings, rather than drawings. Perhaps you should think twice about whether your work is a drawing or not, before clicking submit.You could check what appears in the other galleries to help you to decide. As a personal preference I'd like to see artistic drawings rather than cartoons and so on.

Sylvia Evans

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Thank you for the advice kindly meant. To me the gallery is the gallery . If it took into account all the catagories listed e.g. Drawing, oil , abstract ,subject ...it would just go on and on . I just post for people to see my pic and make comment or otherwise .
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Linda Wilson

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I see what you mean. If you use the drawing filter, you get more non drawings than drawings! Having said that, when I have classified my drawings, I don't think I have ever used the drawing category, but have identified whether i use graphite, charcoal, or pen. Strange. I'll try to be more a n the future, but no idea why so many others get it wrong too.
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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The categories would be useful if people used them properly - although some works listed there are digital: I can just about see they might be classed as drawings as no actual paint is involved, but it would help if there were a digital category (I don't think there is, though, is there?). It's quite possible that some people would be looking specifically for oils, or watercolours, acrylics, or drawings - I sometimes do, for one, and the categories then come into their own. You don't of course have to consult them at all if you don't want to. http://www.isleofwightlandscapes.net http://www.wightpaint.blogspot.co.uk
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Michael Edwards

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keckule (16/10/2016)
As a personal preference I'd like to see artistic drawings rather than cartoons and so on.
For as long as the categories exist I would certainly like to see a section for cartoons but can't accept the implication that cartoons are not artistic. Having said that I never bother with the categories in the first place so I'm with Syd et al on this one.

Michael Robinson

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No, I never look at the various categories. I always go straight in and check the gallery, no matter what medium is used I comment on those I like even though my work is watercolour. Heck we'd be there all day if we looked at each medium separately.
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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You wouldn't look at each category separately though would you? If you were short of time, and wanted to see drawings: or oil paintings; or watercolours, acrylics, pastels, rather than plough through the whole gallery you'd go to the category which, for whatever reason, happened to interest you. I think some of us are managing to miss the point by a couple of nautical miles here. http://www.isleofwightlandscapes.net http://www.wightpaint.blogspot.co.uk

Ruth Dolan

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keckule asks "What is a drawing?" An interesting question..... Basically drawing is a representation in line . It is the underlying structure of every painting whether it be in oil, acrylic, watercolour, pastel, pencil or any other media, and as a category is qualified by whether it is in graphite, pen and ink, charcoal, chalk or something as basic as a stick dipped in liquid. It might be more helpful if the drawings gallery was presented purely as "line drawings," indicating that they lack the element of colour ?

Alan Bickley

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I totally agree, all I am interested in is seeing the latest additions to the gallery, I both paint and draw in all mediums and as such am interested in seeing them all, I just don't have any preference and neither do I have the time or inclination to trawl through the different categories, I accept however that other artists do like that facility.

Stephen

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drawing is like a tune that has many building blocks and so many only ever hear the final tune and think little of what went before and drawing is for me the building block...

Ruth Dolan

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Yes, escorial, I agree. Drawing is the building block, whatever medium is used in the completed work. It is basically the structure, involving composition and balance . Any work of art begins with a sketch, either thumbnail or in the mind's eye..... It is the planning tool which we use. Perhaps the Drawing Category could usefully be renamed Line Drawing?
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Michael Edwards

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Spot on Ruth except for the last sentence which I'm not so sure about. For me (and others may disagree here) the word drawing is generic in that it covers a range of drawing styles/types/techniques including, among others, line drawing, sketching, cartoon work etc.
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