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Line drawing   /laɪn drˈɔɪŋ/   Listen
Line drawing

noun
1.
A drawing of the outlines of forms or objects.  Synonyms: delineation, depiction, limning.






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"Line drawing" Quotes from Famous Books



... and, that form may not likewise be sacrificed, the outline becomes necessary, that light objects may stand relieved against light. This outline is the most characteristic, as it is the most indispensable, of the conventions of line drawing. To seek to abolish it only involves a resort to expedients no less artificial, and the results of all such attempts, dependent as they necessarily are upon elaboration of color, and a general indirectness ...
— Pen Drawing - An Illustrated Treatise • Charles Maginnis



Words linked to "Line drawing" :   limning, animalization, delineation, depiction, drawing



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