Drawing is a form of visual
expression and is one of the major forms within the visual arts. There are
several categories of drawing, including cartooning. Certain drawing
methods or approaches, such as "doodling," other informal kinds of
drawing, and 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 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 the paper—is also
not considered fine art, although it may be part of the draftsman's
preparation.
The word drawing is
both (1) a noun and (2) the present-participle and gerund forms of the verbdraw.
To draw is to produce a drawing. A quick, unrefined drawing may be called
a sketch.
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