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Drawing is one of the most ancient forms of visual art. The medium of drawing is part of us all. It’s our first means of expression and creativity, says Julia Balchin, principal of the Royal Drawing School, London: “As a child, before you can even talk, or walk or read, you can draw. So it’s often our first way of expressing ourselves”.
Drawing has always been vital to every artist’s practice, dating from the Renaissance – when drawing flourished, and Leonardo da Vinci created detailed anatomical studies of the human body – to today.
Though drawing’s popularity has decreased over the centuries, Balchin identifies a deep decrease in the 1970s, when the academic art world saw it as “very unfashionable”.
Drawing is enjoying popularity again – appreciated for its therapeutic qualities and the sense of “flow” it generates, especially since the lockdowns during the pandemic.
The number of students doubled in 2020 from 1,000 students a week to 3,000 today. “I think that showed there was a real longing for human touch and contact,” says Balchin. “If people couldn’t be around other humans, they were drawing them instead.” Students confirmed it helped mental wellbeing.
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