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Drawing (verb) is the act of making marks on a surface so as to create a visual image of a form or a shape. The visual image produced as a result is also called a drawing (noun). It may also be defined as a sketch (see sketch (drawing)) more...

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Drawing involves the choice of one of more tools from a wide variety and the choice of a support appropriate to that tool in order to make marks. A wide variety of marks are possible. To produce a drawing the tool needs to moved across the surface of the support or used in such a way as to create marks on the support.

Common tools for drawing include: graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoals, pastels, markers and a stylus; Common supports for drawing include: paper, a drawing book, a sketchbook and a digital tablet.;

An artist who excels in drawing is referred to as a draftsman or draughtsman.

Definitions

Drawing is a form of visual expression and is one of the major forms within the visual arts.

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

Drawing (verb) is the act of making marks on a surface so as to create a visual image of a form or a shape.; The visual image produced as a result is also called a drawing (noun). It may also be defined as a sketch (see sketch (drawing));

Drawing is distinct from "painting", in which delineated areas are "filled in" with a color, or pattern. The terms "drawing" and "painting" are often confused, because the same tool can perform both tasks. But the operations are distinct, as the designers of graphics software applications recognized when they distinguished "path" and "fill" tools.

Subject matter

Most drawings are representational, depicting objects or scenes which the artist views, remembers, or imagines. They may be realistic to the point of lifelike resemblance (e.g. traditional portraits), looser approximations of reality (e.g. sketches), highly stylized (e.g. cartoons, caricatures), or abstract (e.g. automatic drawing, entoptic graphomania).

Media

The medium is the means by which ink, pigment, or color are delivered onto the drawing surface. Most drawing media are either dry (e.g. graphite, charcoal, pastel, Conté, silverpoint), or water-based (marker, pen and ink). Watercolor pencils can be used dry like ordinary pencil, then moistened with a wet brush to get various painterly effects. Very rarely, artists have drawn with (usually decoded) invisible ink.

Materials

Paper comes in a variety of different sizes and qualities, ranging from newspaper grade for practice up to high quality and relatively expensive paper sometimes sold as individual sheets. Papers can vary in texture, hue, acidity, and strength when wet. Smooth paper is good for rendering fine detail, but a more "toothy" paper will hold the drawing material better. Thus a more coarse material is useful for producing deeper contrast.

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