History of drawing

• The first drawings were an attempt to depict the national pattern of life, morals and traditions so that the future generations could learn from them.
• Technical drawing


  Aimed at the implementation of an instruction for the realisation of a practical goal
• Picture


  Primarily provides aesthetic enjoyment
• A characteristic of the earliest drawings was the absence of dimensions.
• One of the earliest maps of the world, was that of Hecataeus dating from 517 BC.
• Vesalius made illustration to the human body in his De Fabrica Humani Corporis, a work on medical surgery, published in 1543.