What's the difference between sketch and Chinese painting?

The main differences are different in nature, artistic characteristics, techniques and expressions, as follows:

First, the nature is different.

1, sketch

Sketch is a kind of monochrome painting, using charcoal pen, pencil, pen and so on. Used to draw light and dark objects with lines. Monochrome watercolors and monochromatic oil paintings can also be counted as sketches, and traditional line drawing and ink painting in China can also be called sketches.

2. Chinese painting

Mainly refers to scroll paintings painted on silk, rice paper and silk and mounted.

Second, the artistic features are different.

1, sketch

Sketch usually uses methods that can leave traces on the plane: such as charcoal pen, pen, brush, ink, paper and so on. Outlines and lines are general terms for sketches. Sketch has a feeling of natural law. Different strokes create different lines, intersecting relationships and rhythms, active and passive surroundings, planes, volumes, tones and textures.

2. Chinese painting

Chinese painting is a traditional form of painting in China, which uses brush strokes dipped in water, ink and color on silk or paper. Tools and materials include brush, ink, Chinese painting pigments, rice paper, silk and so on. Themes can be divided into figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, etc.

Third, the technique and expression are different.

1, sketch

Sketch is a formal artistic creation, which uses monochrome lines to express things in the intuitive world, as well as ideas, concepts, attitudes, feelings, fantasies, symbols and even abstract forms. It does not pay attention to the whole and color like color painting, but to the structure and form.

2. Chinese painting

Techniques can be divided into figurative and freehand brushwork. Chinese painting embodies the ancients' cognition of nature, society and its related politics, philosophy, religion, morality, literature and art in content and artistic creation.

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