Hand painting refers to the process and outcome of making paintings by hand. Usually hand painting is created by hand, as handicrafts, also known as hand painting or handmade painting. Hand painting emphasizes the artist's sense of touch and skill, and is more capable of displaying the artist's personal characteristics and expressing rich and varied emotions and moods. It can infect people's emotions and convey certain cultural connotations, and has both ornamental and practical values.

Hand painting can be called a kind of art of dexterity. It requires the painter to transform his creativity and emotion into a picture, so that the audience can feel the painter's emotion and thought in appreciation, bringing the audience unique visual and spiritual enjoyment. Unlike digital drawing, hand painting requires more skill, care, patience and creativity from the artist, therefore, hand painting works are often more artistic and unique.

The significance of hand painting lies in the expression of human emotions and cultural connotations through the painter's observation and capture of nature and life, and turning it into a work of art. It can be a hobby as well as being used in a wide range of fields, such as book illustration, comics, advertising and publicity design. Hand painting shows us the charm and vitality of an ancient art form, and what is more precious is that the process of creating and appreciating hand paintings is itself a kind of spiritual cultivation.