Drawing Drawn (A Taxonomy)

<jats:p> This reflections on practice essay is organized into three parts; Development, Structure and Application, as a way to describe through drawing and writing the building of a ‘Taxonomy of Drawing’. The first part on Development focuses on the period from 2005–2010 and the roll that different genera of drawing played as enabling tools in the development of the taxonomy. Structure was developed during the period from 2010–2012, and tracked drawn images from the point of origination within the domain of two-dimensional representation through to their emergence as drawings that are products of one or other of the six genera. Finally, the last part Application, tracks the journey of six sample drawings through the taxonomy. This essay is illustrated by the 12 line drawings used in the development and testing of the taxonomy. </jats:p>