This document discusses and compares drawing and painting. It notes that drawing involves making lines and sketches to illustrate ideas, and can be done with simple tools like pencils. Painting uses colored paints and different techniques depending on the type of paint. Drawing is seen as more fundamental and an important precursor to painting. It is cheaper and more accessible than painting since it does not require specialized paints. Both drawing and painting are important art forms that have been practiced for generations and can be used to experiment, visualize ideas, and create finished works of art.

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Drawing can basically be described as an art o making scratches on a surface to render values.
Though that is not the only definition, it can also be described as making lines on a surface to
create an illustration or a visual form. As mentioned, drawing can result from lines and sketches
which at the end results as shapes which illustrate what one has in mid. This paper seek to look at
drawing and painting, what is known of painting and drawing and the specific art work in this
field.
Different from painting, drawing differs in a numerous ways since drawing is rough and sketchy
and like panting which is refined and one is able to describe paints easily without many
complications. Drawing normally contain single color and in this case, devices like the hard
pencils and the soft pencils are the commonly tools used in sketching.
In the field of drawing, it is believed that this is passed from one generation to the other. For this
reason, drawing is viewed as fundamental since it has been used as the primary means in
tradition several years ago. Different from painting, several artists prefer drawing due to the fact
that it acts like that back born in art and therefore everyone has to be perfect in drawing before
been perfect in painting the reason why many artists’ are perfected in drawing than painting.
Another fundamental reason why drawing has most perfect persons in it that painting is the
availability of drawing materials. In many cases, drawing materials are cheep, available, easy to
make correction as well give room for creativity and like painting which requires one to be more
accurate since there are no room to try and error.
Drawing is believed to be the mother of every art work since one has to come up with a sketch
before coming up with the final paints one wishes to present. Though some may think that the
field of drawing has no norms and its specifications, it has crucial specifics since when it comes

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to the function of drawing; drawings are mainly made for a variety of reasons. For example,
drawings are created for completely finished artworks.
In many cases, artists use drawing to experiment in order to increase their general ability of
drawing while others use drawing to experiment some task they are undertaking in order to make
sure they complete a perfect task.
It is believed that drawing can also be learned in class but for those who are perfect in drawing,
have it come from them. They have the passion in drawing and it’s like a talent which emerges
from childhood to adulthood, which is believed to beer fruits if one has interest in it. The fact
that drawing come up with final ideals, it’s also used for studies. For instance, artists use
drawings to investigate different aspects of art work which are finally executed in other medium.
In other cases, drawing is used to visualize the preliminary idea or first thought for any
composition. Another thing that makes drawing to be unique is its use for representing final
work, less expensive, as well a good field to practice for perfection. In the past before the arrival
of photography, people used drawings to keep records that they would not like to forget and this
makes drawing more unique.
In the modern days, artists are likely to produce independent finished drawing since many artists
prefer the scale of drawing and on the other hand it’s affordable to most of the artists. Though
many people may think that drawing is perfected within no time, not every tool used may result
with a pleasing outcome since there are special tools used in drawing. For example, different
drawing tools determine the quality of the finished product.
The best the tool used in drawing, the perfect the final product will be. For instance, tools used in
this field are like pen and ink, metal points, chalk, brush and ink pastels among others. In this

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case, these tools are available to everyone the reason to why drawing has become the chief
means of visual study and creative stimulation.
Painting
Different from drawing, painting is an Artistic expression whereby paint is used o a surface to
create a pictorial composition. Artists use various media example, Acrylic which is permanent
and used with water or plastic vesin, watercolor which is not permanent and can be used with
water or gum Arabic, oil which are permanent and used with linseed oil. Encaustics, fresco, Egg
tampera, Gouache are just but other painting media.
Painting is totally different from drawing since painting use special paints and like drawing
which requires basic things which are available. In painting, different paints are used and artists
paint in a number of different ways depending on the kind of pint used. Examples include oil,
water color among others are believed to have special characteristics and are applied differently.
Different from drawing, paints contain pigments which allow brushing and that the reason why it
is easily applicable in the cars. The other difference is that painting is livelier and one can think
that it’s a photograph and like drawing which is rough. Due to the livelier that painting brought
over drawing, ancient Greeks and Romans painted their walls and ceilings for decoration and
these become a part of architecture.
Though painting is much pleasing, they do not have long life but this can also be determined by
paints used. In other cases, out door paints don’t have long life span since they fade and losses
the originality in it and like the once indoors which can stay for a long time without change.

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In conclusion, art has been old and has brought change to many parts of the world. For instance
its through art that well recall some important history and sculptures as well perfection in the
field of architecture which has made the two to have special in mans future sine they are
fundamental in many decisions carried out. It is therefore mans obligation to safeguard the field
of art.