Past tense of draw; pulled, attracted, or created pictures or diagrams by making marks on a surface.
From Old English 'dragan' meaning to pull or drag. The artistic sense developed from the motion of pulling a stylus across surfaces to create marks and images.
The word 'drew' connects physical pulling with artistic creation - when you 'draw' a picture, you're literally 'drawing' the pencil across paper, showing how our artistic vocabulary preserves the ancient physical actions of mark-making.
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