Abstract:The painting language is the element of constituting a painting work. The traditional colored drawing has some formulaic features, which leads to the relatively easy production. With the time going on, the new conception, materials and techniques have appeared one after another. This results in the reduction of some formulaic elements and more attention to materials and production. The modern colored drawing should be based on the modern aesthetic culture either from the formal language or from the artistic conception and express the modern life when it inherits the national tradition and absorbs the foreign elements. Only in this way can it get its endless vitality.