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10,000 BCE
pre-historic
earliest known drawings
30,000-10,000 BCE -
3000 BCE
Ancient egypt
carving scenes of their everyday life, hieroglyphics and gods with papyrus plants.
3,000 BC -
700 BCE
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece would show there battles and myths through pottery.
800-490 BC -
1100
paper a new sources
paper was invented after 1100 CE but before that people would use wood and wax to draw on -
1400
Middle ages
in the middle ages drawings were about religious and stories in the bible and were only given to royal or wealthy families.
400-1400 CE -
1400
materials
chalk and charcoal were becoming more popular because it created more texture.
15th century -
renaissance
Drawing took a different turn and people from italy focus on realistic drawing of natural
1500-1700 -
Baroque period
watercolor and ink wash was introduced -
monograms
artists began placing there names on the art work they did -
1900s
pencils became the most used object for drawing people also used shaper lines when drawing