What's the difference between meticulous painting and freehand painting?

Meticulous painting pays more attention to business orientation than freehand painting, with exquisite workmanship, neat pen and clear painting steps. And freehand brushwork pays more attention to the use of pens, which is more abundant in the use of brushwork.

Both meticulous painting and freehand painting belong to a painting technique of Chinese painting, and they correspond to each other. Meticulous painting is a kind of meticulous painting, which requires neat, meticulous and meticulous techniques to describe objects. However, freehand brushwork often depicts the shape and spirit of the object with extensive and concise pen and ink to express the artistic conception of the author.

Freehand brushwork painting does not seek meticulous modeling, but only seeks to outline the expression of the scenery with concise pens and express the author's interest. Especially the rise of literati painting has played a positive role in the development of freehand brushwork. They advocate describing the shape and spirit of objects with extensive and concise pen and ink to express a specific artistic conception, which is the author's subjective expression of things.