I love drawing, but I cant really paint well. I wonder if the two are different when it comes to motor skills and perception abilities. What do you think?
I'm not exactly sure, I do know that just a quick, freehand drawing called a sketch, is generall not a finished work.  So maybe a painting is?
Thats a good point I also am not good with color, but my pencil sketches are good. Doing color is just really hard!
There are a lot of mediums to draw with, like pencils, pen and ink, wax, crayons, charcoal, even electronic devices - I think different people just like different mediums.
Right. I wonder what it is that determines the amount of skill with each different mediums, it seems to make a monumental difference in the appearance of how much talent I have/dont have.
I'm not sure, the wide variety of drawing instruments makes drawing a very common artistic activity, I'm thinking maybe there is more fine motor skills with some mediums though.
Yes it is common and because of that it is very hard to have for a career, its like wanting to be a singer, you have to be extremely talented and special and be in the right place at the right time. It stinks
There do seem to be more and more jobs though that use it, such as commercial illustration, animation, architecture, engineering and even technical drawings.