What is the difference between sketching and hand drawing?

The difference between hand drawing and sketching:

Sketching is monochromatic; and hand-drawn means a wide range of hand-drawn, hand-drawn includes sketching, sketching is the basis of hand-drawn.

Hand-drawing: applied to various industries hand-drawn patterns of technical skills, design hand-drawing, mainly pre-conceptualization of the design program of the research-based hand-drawing and design results part of the performance of the hand-drawing, the pre-part of the part is known as sketches, the results of the part of the performance of the map or rendering is known as the effect of the map. The content of hand-drawing is very broad, so words can not be expressed.

Drawing: refers to the use of monochrome or simple color tools to depict the object's outline, volume, structure, space, light, texture and other basic modeling elements of the painting method. It is the foundation of all painting, and can develop the basic observation ability, drawing ability, and the aesthetic ability.

Expanded Information:

Drawing is the foundation of painting, the skeleton of drawing; it is also the art that requires the most restraint and the most sanity to assist. Beginning to learn to draw people must first learn to sketch, sketching good people, oil painting natural painting good. The origin of sketching is usually the Renaissance, in fact, the Greek bottle painting and sculpture have a good foundation of sketching. In the early days, sketching was regarded as the foundation of painting, for example, for frescoes, there must first be a draft of the conception, and then there is the foundation of sketching, and at the same time, there must also be a hand, face part of the precise sketching diagrams.

Mural painting is customarily not to see the model sketching, rely entirely on the prepared sketches and painter's memory. Modern sketching, has been separated from the original manuscript and and the status of the work, can become a work of art to appreciate. The attitude of sketching is not only to cultivate the power of description, but also to cultivate the ability of modeling, and in the end, just sketching can be regarded as a work of art to be appreciated. On the contrary, just by looking at oil paintings, one can know how good the author is at sketching. Therefore, sketching is the foundation of painting, but also the skeleton of the painting, is the first learning to paint in any case to learn sketching seriously.

Drawing, in its strict interpretation, is only monochromatic black and white, but with the addition of light color or color, it can still be considered as drawing. The subject matter of the drawing can be divided into plaster cast sketching, landscape sketching, still life sketching, human body sketching, and fantasy sketching. Third, according to the purpose of sketching can be divided into sketching as a conception, sketching as a drawing, sketching, works, exercises.

Drawing classification:

I. Drawing from the purpose and function; generally can be divided into two categories of creative drawing and sketching.

Two, sketching sketches in the performance of the content is divided into still life, animals, landscapes, portraits and human sketches.

Three, drawing from the perspective of painting tradition, drawing can be divided into Chinese realistic tradition of sketching and Western realistic tradition of sketching two.

Fourth, from the concept of drawing time, sketching can be divided into long-term sketching, sketching, mimeographing and so on.

V. Sketch from the use of tools is divided into pencil, charcoal, pen, brush, ink, chalk, pen and paper or two tools interspersed with the use of sketching.

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