Pictorial drawings are drawings that provide a visual illustration of the object. Pictorial drawings are in 3d. Pictorial drawings can provide details that are difficult to describe in words. Pictorial drawings are important for engineers because it is a sketch in which if you are making a new product, you could see more detail and like in a instruction booklet to make something, instead of words, these pictures can be shown. With pictorial drawings engineers can also make their ideas easier to sketch and draw because of the detail that is included on them. In pictorial drawings it is easier to shade parts so that by shading those partsrts, you can show different functions o the invention that you want to make.