What is a drawing? What does it mean to me? A drawing to me is the uses of a pencil, pen, anything that makes a mark rather than paint to create an image or diagram which helps convey different objects, images, and perspectives all at once. A drawing can be of different scales with different textures, shapes, patterns and colours. I find drawings are a way for people to express themselves to escape from reality and put there mind on paper. Anything can be a drawing... Many people can use a drawing to say what words cant.