line drawing

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Noun

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line drawing (plural line drawings)

  1. (art) A pen or pencil drawing consisting only of solid lines.
    • 1916, Drawing for Line Engraving, page 33:
      The line drawing held the entire field until the halftone process was invented, by which an engraving may be made directly from a photograph, a wash drawing, or the object itself.
    • 1974, Arthur Zaidenberg, Drawing All Animals, page 22:
      Line drawing is the ingenious invention of man. Nothing in nature is composed of a simple line.
    • 1994, William A. Berry, Drawing the Human Form, page 46:
      The interplay of the two methods can extend the expressive range of a line drawing.
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