People can use various tools like a graphite pencil, crayon, charcoal, pen and ink, wax color pencils, markers or chalk to draw a picture.
A picture made by drawing with a tool is also called a drawing (for example, illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book, magazine, or newspaper).
Drawing as always been the essence of most art forms. Since the beginnings of mankind it has always been the closest form to nature. It is another form of language to express nature, creativity, (creativity which comes from nature and what we see) and mankind. Probably the earliest forms of drawing date back to the prehistoric cave paintings at Lascaux.
There are a number of subcategories of drawing, including cartooning, sketch (a quick, unrefined drawing), technical drawing or drafting...
An artistic drawing can be made as a preliminary step for a finished artwork, as a piece of art itself, or as information for future use.
Traditional drawings were monochrome, or at least had little colour, while modern coloured-pencil drawings may approach or cross the boundary (if there is one) between drawing and painting.
