Editing Drawing (section)

==Overview==
[[File:Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - Madame Palmyre with Her Dog, 1897.jpg|thumb|upright|''Madame Palmyre with Her Dog'', 1897. [[Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec]]]]Drawing is one of the oldest forms of human expression within the visual arts. It is generally concerned with the marking of lines and areas of tone onto paper/other material, where the accurate representation of the visual world is expressed upon a plane surface.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=McManus |first1=I. C. |last2=Chamberlain |first2=R |last3=Loo |first3=P-W |last4=Riley |first4=H |last5=Rankin |first5=Q |last6=Brunswick |first6=N |date=2010 |title=Art Students Who Cannot Draw: Exploring the Relations Between Drawing Ability, Visual Memory, Accuracy of Copying, and Dyslexia |url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/medical-education/publications/Reprints2010/2010-PACA-ArtStudentsWhoCannotDraw.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303223647/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/medical-education/publications/Reprints2010/2010-PACA-ArtStudentsWhoCannotDraw.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-03 |access-date=2014-03-11 |website=University College London |series=Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, vol. 4, no. 1, 18 –30}}</ref> Traditional drawings were [[monochrome painting|monochrome]], or at least had little colour,<ref>See [[grisaille]] and [[chiaroscuro]]</ref> while modern colored-pencil drawings may approach or cross a boundary between drawing and [[painting]]. In Western terminology, drawing is distinct from painting, even though similar [[List of artistic mediums#Drawing|media]] often are 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. Using a brush for drawing is very widespread and here it is more the process of using lines and hatching, that characterises something as a drawing. Similar supports likewise can serve both: painting generally involves the application of liquid paint onto prepared canvas or panels, but sometimes an [[underdrawing]] is drawn first on that same support.
Drawing is often exploratory, with considerable emphasis on observation, problem-solving and composition. Drawing is also regularly used in preparation for a painting, further obfuscating their distinction. Drawings created for these purposes are called sketches.

There are several categories of drawing, including:
* [[figure drawing]]
* [[cartooning]]
* [[doodling]]
* [[Sketch (drawing)|sketch]]
* [[wikt:freehand|freehand]]. 

There are also many drawing methods, such as:
* [[Line art|line drawing]]
* [[stippling]]
* [[shading]]
* [[Surrealist techniques#Entopic graphomania|entopic graphomania]] (a surrealist method in which dots are made at the sites of impurities in a blank sheet of paper, and lines are then made between the dots)
* [[Tracing (art)|tracing]] (drawing on a translucent paper, such as ''[[tracing paper]]'', around the outline of preexisting shapes that show through the paper).

In fields outside art, [[technical drawing]]s or plans of buildings, machinery, circuitry and other things are often called "drawings" even when they have been transferred to another medium by printing.