Research Guides: Studio Art: Drawing: Drawing

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Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Find 70,000 electronic books in all subject areas for college-level reading and research.
eBook Academic Collection This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive subscription collection of e-books intended to meet the content needs of students in their research, special projects, and quests.

Fine Arts This link opens in a new window
The database provides articles about drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
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This art research database provides full-text art journals, magazines and books, plus detailed indexing and abstracts. Useful for artists, art scholars and designers, it covers fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as architecture and architectural design.
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This database offers detailed "how-to" instructions and creative ideas to meet the interests of virtually every hobby enthusiast. Full text is provided from leading hobby and craft magazines.

The Sketchbook Project
"The Sketchbook Project, a crowd-sourced library that features 35,244 artists' books contributed by creative people from 135+ countries." Add your voice to something huge!
They Draw and Travel
Thousands of illustrated maps created by artists around the world. Browse maps created by artists or submit your own.
Historical Anatomies on the Web
An online gallery of high-quality images from anatomical atlases in the National Library of Medicine’s collection.
The Drawing Center
Focused on the exhibition of drawings, both historical and contemporary.

Browse and search for streaming films in Kanopy and Films on Demand:

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Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video platform for colleges and universities that offers viewers a large collection of award-winning films and documentaries.
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A collection of streaming videos on various topics in humanities, social sciences, sciences, health/medicine, business, economics, technical trades, guidance/counseling, etc.

Streaming films about drawing:

The Great Courses: How to Draw
Drawing is one of humanity's oldest forms of expression, with existing examples dating back an astonishing 80,000 years or more. Older than written language by tens of thousands of years, drawing developed across millennia, forming the base of many of the world's artistic traditions.
The Great Courses: How to Look at and Understand Great Art