Painting vs. Drawing

Paintingverb

present participle of paint

Paintingnoun

(countable) An illustration or artwork done with the use of paint.

Paintingnoun

(uncountable) The action of applying paint to a surface.

Paintingnoun

(uncountable) The same activity as an art form.

Paintingnoun

The act or employment of laying on, or adorning with, paints or colors.

Paintingnoun

The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture.

Paintingnoun

Color laid on; paint.

Paintingnoun

A depicting by words; vivid representation in words.

Paintingnoun

graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface;

Paintingnoun

creating a picture with paints;

Paintingnoun

the act of applying paint to a surface;

Paintingnoun

the occupation of a house painter;

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the or ). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used.

Drawingverb

present participle of draw

Drawingnoun

A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper.

Drawingnoun

The act of producing such a picture.

Drawingnoun

Such acts practiced as a graphic art form.

Drawingnoun

The process of drawing or pulling something.

Drawingnoun

An act or event in which the outcome (e.g., designating a winner) is selected by chance in the form of a blind draw, notably of lots; especially such a contest in which a winning name or number is selected randomly by removing (or drawing) it from a container, popularly a hat).

Drawingnoun

A small portion of tea for steeping.

Drawingnoun

The act of pulling, or attracting.

Drawingnoun

The act or the art of representing any object by means of lines and shades; especially, such a representation when in one color, or in tints used not to represent the colors of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc.; delineation; also, the figure or representation drawn.

Drawingnoun

The process of stretching or spreading metals as by hammering, or, as in forming wire from rods or tubes and cups from sheet metal, by pulling them through dies.

Drawingnoun

The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.

Drawingnoun

The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery.

Drawingnoun

an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book or magazine;

Drawingnoun

a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines;

Drawingnoun

the creation of artistic drawings;

Drawingnoun

players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed according to the drawing of lots

Drawingnoun

act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source;

Drawingnoun

the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling

Drawing

Drawing is a form of visual art in which an artist uses instruments to mark paper or other two-dimensional surface. Drawing instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, various kinds of paints, inked brushes, colored pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, erasers, markers, styluses, and metals (such as silverpoint).