line drawing

English

Noun

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.