drafting vs tracing

drafting and tracing both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
drafting	Yes	No	No	No
tracing	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, tracing is a hyponym of drafting; that is, tracing is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than drafting:

Other hyponyms of drafting include pyrography.

drafting (noun)	tracing (noun)
the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams	the act of drawing a plan or diagram or outline
writing a first version to be filled out and polished later	the discovery and description of the course of development of something
the craft of drawing blueprints	a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image