Drawing

Drawing is a visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoals, chalk, pastels, markers, stylus, or various metals like silverpoint. An artist who practices or works in drawing may be referred to as a draughtsman or draftsman.

A small amount of material is released onto the two dimensional medium which leaves a visible mark—the process is similar to that ofpainting. The most common support for drawing is paper, although other materials such as cardboard, plastic, leather, canvas and board, may be used. Temporary drawings may be made on a blackboard or whiteboard, or indeed almost anything. The medium has been a popular and fundamental means of public expression throughout human history. The relative ease of availability of basic drawing instruments makes drawing more universal than most other media.

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Overview

Drawing is a form of visual expression and is one of the major forms within the visual arts. There are a number of subcategories of drawing, including cartooning. Certain drawing methods or approaches, such as "doodling" and other informal kinds of drawing such as drawing on a foggy mirror caused by the steam from a shower, or the surrealist method of "entopic graphomania", in which dots are made at the sites of impurities in a blank sheet of paper, and lines are then made between the dots, may or may not be considered as part of "drawing" as a "fine art." Likewise tracing, drawing on a thin piece of paper, sometimes designed for that purpose (tracing paper), around the outline of preexisting shapes that show through this paper, is also not considered fine art, although it may be part of the draughtsman's preparation.

The word 'drawing' is used as both a verb and a noun:

1. Drawing (verb) is the act of making marks on a surface so as to create an image, form or shape.
2. The produced image is also called a drawing (noun). A quick, unrefined drawing may be defined as a sketch.

Drawing is generally concerned with the marking of lines and areas of tone onto paper. Traditional drawings were monochrome, or at least had little colour,[1] while modern coloured-pencil drawings may approach or cross a boundary between drawing and painting. In Western terminology, however, drawing is distinct from painting despite that similar media are often employed in both tasks. Dry media, normally associated with drawing, such as chalk, may be used in pastel paintings. Drawing may be done with a liquid medium, applied with brushes or pens. Similar supports likewise can serve both: painting generally involves the application of liquid paint onto prepared canvas or panels, but sometimes anunderdrawing is drawn first on that same support. Drawing is often exploratory, with considerable emphasis on observation, problem solving and composition. Drawing is also regularly employed in preparation for a painting, further obfuscating their distinction.

Types of Drawings

1. Academy figure –
2. Caricature – pictorial representation of someone in which distinguishing features are exaggerated for comic effect.
3. Cartoon –
4. Fashion illustration –
5. Figure drawing –
6. Gesture drawing –
7. Line art – images that consist of distinct straight and curved lines placed against a (usually plain) background, without gradations in shade (darkness) or hue (color).
8. Portrait –
9. Scratchboard –
10. Silhouette –
11. Silverpoint –

1. Sketch –
   1. Courtroom sketch –
   2. Croquis –
   3. Doodle –
   4. Multi-Sketch –
   5. Study –
   6. Scribble –
2. Stick figure –
3. Technical drawing –
   1. Architectural drawing –
   2. Electrical drawing –
   3. Engineering drawing –
   4. Plumbing drawing –
   5. Structural drawing –

Difference between Drawing and Painting

• Drawing is an art form wherein we create two dimensional figures on any surface using painting tool. There are many painting tools available in the market such as pencil, pen, ink, brush or metals like silver points.
  
• Drawing is a result of mind blowing imagination power of an artist.
  
• You will find a big difference between drawing and painting. Many people consider both things similar, but they are not the same. It is a fact that the same painting tools could be used to draw or paint but still there remain a few dissimilarities.
  
• In painting colours are smeared on canvas or any other surface with the help of painting brush. While in drawing, a dark outline is first drawn on a paper. Hence it can be said that both the form of arts have a separate process that they follow.
  
• While creating a drawing, much of the emphasis is given to composition. Paintings may be used for showing a traditional system of a certain cast or community by use of some basis colour describing different emotions. There are many types of paints available for painting purpose, some of them are oil paints, water colour paints and acrylic paints.
  
• Painting takes more time to create compared to drawings. Drawings are made very quickly and instantly. It saves lots of time hence they are used for commercial purpose. In painting you can apply different colours to make an art work look attractive. While in drawing different colours are used to create different lines.
  
• Drawings are made mainly for commercial purpose. Engineering drawing makes best usage of drawing wherein it is used for construction of a buildings blueprint. Here accurate drawing is very important.
  
• In the era of IT technology, there are tons of software available that helps to create exact drawing in a very less time. Digital drawing has exact accuracy compared to work done manually by an artist.
  
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