- Printmaking art techniques such as engraving, etching, woodcut and lithography are covered more fully in their respective articles.
Line art or
line drawing is any image that consists of distinct straight or curved lines placed against a (usually plain) background, 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. Line art emphasizes form and
outline, over color, shading, and . However, areas of solid
pigment and dots can also be used in addition to lines. The lines in a piece of line art may be all of a constant width (as in some
pencil drawings), of several (few) constant widths (as in
technical illustrations), or of freely varying widths(as in brush work or
engraving).
