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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

... with the sun going down, it looked most gorgeous. Palms and gardens on the right and the buildings of the town on the left, and boats approaching, dream-like In the sunset glow. I have sketched the effect roughly in the line drawing ...
— A Dweller in Mesopotamia - Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden • Donald Maxwell



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