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What is Lithography and How Does It Relate to Painting and Drawing?

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What exactly is lithography? Would it be appropriate to describe it in the same hues as painting or drawing?

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Different from woodcut, lithography is a printmaking process which lending itself to be used in reproduction of images on flat surfaces such as stone or plates. It is also easy to use for the designers who easily draw or paint because it has an impression of a painter. In the context, one draws an image which is able to be repackaged consistently in future therefore, less work during the painting stage. For people who enjoy work with hands and making art with great physical effort lithography can be the most exciting art technique.
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Hello, this is the technical process description in Art Fundamental (by Ocvirk, Stinson, Wigg, Bone, Cayton, 154). Hope it helps:

In lithography , a full range of achromatic value is drawn by oil crayon on limestone (or metal plates). After being chemically treated and washed in water, the stone allows the application of ink only in the drawn areas. When the ink stone is covered with paper and passed through a press  with a scraper bar, the pressure of the press forces the ink to transfer to the paper.
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I am wanting to do something that looks like lithography drawings for my AP art portfolio, can anyone recommend any artistic practices/medium that could get a look similar to lithography?
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I always thought Lithography was made by carving stone plates into stamps. I was wrong.
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I didn't understand it.... so that was the 1st copier right ?
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All that work, noise, and hype for just that stain of letters...
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That looked like a lot of work to produce something that looks like a toddler got into an inkwell and tried to clean himself off by smearing his hands on paper.
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The letters are fkin awesome
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Lovely ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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She said in the beginning that it’s close to my... I can’t hear that word!
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what makes the surface being whit and smooth like that???
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useless without explanation of the process.
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