Drawing and Painting – What is the Difference Between the Two?

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.

Source by Murtaza Habib

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