The first drawings originated around 32,000 years ago from early cavemen where they would draw simple images (usually of animals) on the walls of caves. These were very basic images and made up of mostly bold shapes and lines and there wasn't much use of colour except what could be naturally made. The drawings were mostly of hunt scenes and various prey and no-one knows the reason why the cavemen drew this, weather it was to leave messages to descendants or for religious purposes.
As time moved on drawings got more and more elaborate and the written language formed from symbols that had meanings. By then in places such as Egypt the images were far more detailed and more colours were used, drawings were very popular back then and decorated the walls of many houses as well as pyramids. The subject of the drawings changed as well, instead of animals and hunting it changed to images of Pharaohs and gods, and usually they depicted story's.
Times changed and more and more detail was put into drawings and paintings, in places like Rome art became an important part of life and soon being an artist became a career. By then artists had a very detailed style and they had far better equipment and a wider variety of colours. This led to far more detailed art with shadows and highlights. Unfourtunatly the subject of these drawings were limited to portraits of people and landscapes.
At around the late 1800's more abstract work started to appear. At first it was shunned and it didn't become popular until the artists were dead, by then people realised art could be used for much more than drawing things you can see with your own two eyes, soon the word of art expanded and many new and interesting styles appeared.
Finally digital art started to appear, with the aid of computer problems art grew and grew and became far more accessible over the internet. Many new things could be made using computer programs from cartoon to photorealism images.
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