Line art
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Line art or line drawing is any
straight lines or curves placed against a background (usually plain), without gradations in shade (darkness) or hue (color
) to represent two-dimensional or three-dimensional objects. Line art can use lines of different colors, although line art is usually monochromatic.
Techniques
Line art emphasizes
ideograph, or glyph
.
Form
One of the most fundamental elements of art is the line. An important feature of a line is that it indicates the edge of a two-dimensional (flat) shape or a three-dimensional form. A shape can be indicated by means of an outline, and a three-dimensional form can be indicated by
contour lines.[1]
History
Before the development of
illustrations to be used in print publications, using black ink on white paper. Using either stippling or hatching
, shades of gray could also be simulated.
Image gallery
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Skull -
Kollengode Palace-Line Art -
Line artpeacock
See also
- Lineography
- Old master print
- Screentone
- Hatching
- Stippling
- Halftone
- Moiré pattern
- Ben-Day dots
- Dithering
- Grayscale
- Perspective (graphical)
- Vanishing point
References
- ISBN 978-0-205-88757-6.
External links
Media related to Line art at Wikimedia Commons
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