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Biological Drawing Techniques Guide

This guide outlines the essential techniques for creating biological drawings, emphasizing accuracy and simplicity. Key instructions include using a mechanical pencil, drawing on blank paper, and ensuring clear labeling with ruler-drawn lines. Additionally, it advises against shading and specifies that all drawings should be titled with magnification details if applicable.

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Biological Drawing Techniques Guide

This guide outlines the essential techniques for creating biological drawings, emphasizing accuracy and simplicity. Key instructions include using a mechanical pencil, drawing on blank paper, and ensuring clear labeling with ruler-drawn lines. Additionally, it advises against shading and specifies that all drawings should be titled with magnification details if applicable.

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GUIDE TO BIOLOGICAL DRAWINGS

1) Draw what you see/ know, not what you think should be there.

2) A sharpened pencil, a HB/ 2HB, 3. However, a mechanical pencil would be best suited for
doing biological drawings since the point remains at relatively the same thickness.

3) Drawings (or diagrams) should be as simple as possible with clean cut lines (do not
sketch). All drawings should be done on unlined (blank) paper and should be neatly
labelled.

4) Drawings must be large enough to show all parts without crowding. The greater the
number of parts to be included, the larger the drawing should be. Drawings must be
about half a page in size or in the majority of the space provided.

5) Keep your drawing either to the left or the center of the page. (Save enough space for
labels)

6) Lines to the labelled parts should be drawn with a ruler and parallel to each other. The
lettering of the words should be horizontal.

7) Use a ruler for label lines.

8) Do not shade your drawing. If you wish to indicate a darker area use dots (stipple).

9) Most plant and animal tissues are made up of individual cells. When one representative
cell of such a tissue is to be drawn, make sure you include the cell boundaries of the other
cells that border it. This will indicate the general appearance of the tissue without the
necessity of drawing every cell.

10) All drawings are titled. The printed and underlined title appears immediately above
the drawing. If applicable, the magnification of the object drawn follows the title and is in
parentheses. Example: Blood Cell (300X).

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