Drawing or sketching?

What’s the difference, or is there a difference? There could be quite a debate on this question. I would like to think that sketching is a more immediate quick mark making process by which we can use pencil, pen or any other mark making medium. This would be to make a record of our response to something we see or imagine. Whereas a drawing is more considered way of making tones and marks on the surface. Without trying to sound like dictionary on this, I’d like to find out what other people think?

I’ve always regarded my instant, quick responses to moments where I grab a pencil, charcoal, or pen, and make a quick recording of something interesting a sketch. How many artists think the same way? Perhaps they do or perhaps this is too conventional in its simplicity. I would like to take you to my pen, ink and wash drawings I have on my website which I consider drawings, because if I were to call them sketches, I feel it would imply that they’re incomplete, but that’s what I think.

And that’s the point of this Blog- the point being that when we sketch something, at least when I sketch, I’m considering that a sketch may become a drawing with further emphasis of line, shade or tone. Therefore the ideas that I’ve developed in my own work I am developing into a 'bigger picture' so to speak.

So can a sketch be just as much a drawing? Perhaps it can, and I would welcome your thoughts?

The artwork shown is in pencil. Is it a sketch or a drawing or both? I’ve leave you to decide…