Drawing vs. Schematic — What's the Difference?

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).

A schematic, or schematic diagram, is a representation of the elements of a system using abstract, graphic symbols rather than realistic pictures. A schematic usually omits all details that are not relevant to the key information the schematic is intended to convey, and may include oversimplified elements in order to make this essential meaning easier to grasp.

The act or an instance of drawing.

Of, relating to, or in the form of a scheme or diagram.

The art of representing objects or forms on a surface chiefly by means of lines.

A structural or procedural diagram, especially of an electrical or mechanical system.

A work produced by this art.

Represented too simply or in an overly formulaic way, reflecting a shallow or incomplete understanding of complex subject matter

Present participle of draw

Sketchy, incomplete

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

Relating to a schema

The act of producing such a picture.

A simplified line drawing used by scientists, engineers, technologists and others to illustrate a system at an abstract level. Schematic drawings often use standard symbols for clarity.

Such acts practiced as a graphic art form.

Of or pertaining to a scheme or a schema.

The process of drawing or pulling something.

Diagram of an electrical or mechanical system

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.

Represented in simplified or symbolic form

A small portion of tea for steeping.

The act of pulling, or attracting.

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.

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.

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

The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery.

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

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

The creation of artistic drawings;

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

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

The act of moving a load by drawing or pulling