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Drawing Examples Online
- The Drawing Center Viewing ProgramExamples of two dimensional contemporary work. Search for images by medium, keyword, or location.
- World Images - Core 2 Dimensional ExamplesExamples of cross-hatching, texture, value, contour, volume, and more.
- Exhibitions Online at the Morgan Library & MuseumDigitized examples of drawings by Ingres, Jim Dine, Degas, Italian Masters, facsimiles of Medieval manuscripts and other items of interest.
Image Databases
- Artstor This link opens in a new windowA digital library containing millions of images from the world's museums, archives, and libraries. Find images for papers, presentations, and studies in the humanities. Tools for sharing images, curating groups of images, downloading them directly into PowerPoint presentations, and comparing and contrasting images are also included. You can also search Artstor in JSTOR.
- AskArt.com This link opens in a new windowAskArt covers primarily American artists, including many regional artists, providing biography, images, citations, auction data, museums owning their work and galleries representing the artist's work. More than 200,000 artists are included.
Where Are the Drawing Books?
UTSA Libraries uses the Library of Congress classification system to assign call numbers to books so you can find them on the shelves.
Browsing for drawing books is easy! Most drawing, design, and illustration books will be found under NC.
NC Drawing, design, illustration
Find Drawings by a Particular Artist
Search using the name of an artist and the word "drawings."
- durer drawings
- seurat drawings
- van gogh drawings
Search Library Quick Search
Use Library Quick Search to search for books and articles across many databases in a single search.
Modern & Contemporary Drawing
To find additional authoritative and reliable information about contemporary artists, visit their own personal artist websites, the website for the galleries that represent them, or the museum websites that own some of their work.
Click on a title below to check its availability.
Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing by Call Number: NC95 .V58 2005
Vitamin D2: New Perspectives in Drawing by Call Number: NC96 .V58 2013
The Drawing Book: A Survey of Drawing, the Primary Means of Expression by Call Number: NC710 .D739 2005
The Peripatetic School: Itinerant Drawing from Latin America by Call Number: NC102 .P47 2011
Twice Drawn: Modern and Contemporary Drawings in Context by Call Number: NC95 .T89 2011
On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century by Call Number: NC95 .B88 2010
The End of the Line: Attitudes in Drawing by Call Number: NC17.G7 L628 2009
Linie Line Linea by Call Number: NC249 .L565 2010
Ballpoint Art by Call Number: NC905 .M67 2016- Manifest: National Drawing Annual byCall Number: N4390 .M37
- International Drawing Annual - INDA byCall Number: N4390 .M375
- Works on Paper, 2008 byCall Number: NC107 .S73 2008
Drawing Technique
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Contemporary Drawing: Key Concepts and Techniques by Call Number: NC730 .D278 2011
Drawing: Space, Form, and Expression by Call Number: NC730 .E65 2012
Drawing: A Contemporary Approach by Call Number: NC730 .B43 2008- Drawing: Perspectives on Line and FormStreaming film from the Films on Demand database.
Drawing Classes
Find a local class you can attend to draw from life or sketch from masterworks.
- Coppini Academy of Fine Arts ClassesA San Antonio arts academy. Consider the "Open Life Drawing Groups" - Long or short pose for a small fee.