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Printmaking
Printmaking

Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. Except in the case of monotyping, the process is capable of producing multiples of the same piece, which is called a 'print....
art techniques such as engraving
Engraving

Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, usually flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass engraving are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing images on paper as prints or illustra...
, etching
Etching

Etching is the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio in the metal ....
, woodcut
Woodcut

Woodcut - formally known as Xylography - is a relief printing artistic technique in printmaking in which an image is carved into the surface of a block of wood, with the printing parts remaining level with the surface while the non-printing parts are removed, typically with gouges....
and lithography
Lithography

Lithography is a method for printing using a stone or a metal plate with a completely smooth surface. By contrast, in intaglio a plate is engraving, etching or mezzotint to make cavities to contain the printing ink, and in woodblock printing and letterpress ink is applied to the raised surfaces of letters or images....
are covered more fully in their respective articles.

Line art is any image that consists of distinct straight and curved lines placed against a (usually plain) background, without gradations in shade

Shading

Shading refers to wikt:depicting depth in 3D models or illustrations by varying levels of darkness....
(darkness) or hue

Hue

Hue is one of the main properties of a color described with names such as "red", "yellow", etc. The two other main properties are lightness and colorfulness....
(color

Color

Color or colour is the visual perception property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, yellow, blue and others....
) 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

Outline

An outline is a hierarchical way to display related items of text to graphically depict their relationships.They are often used by students for research papers....
, over color, shading, and texture

Texture

Texture refers to the properties held and sensations caused by the external surface of objects received through the sense of somatosensory system....
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Line art is any image that consists of distinct straight and curved lines placed against a (usually plain) background, without gradations in shade

Shading

Shading refers to wikt:depicting depth in 3D models or illustrations by varying levels of darkness....
(darkness) or hue

Hue

Hue is one of the main properties of a color described with names such as "red", "yellow", etc. The two other main properties are lightness and colorfulness....
(color

Color

Outline

Texture

Texture refers to the properties held and sensations caused by the external surface of objects received through the sense of somatosensory system....
. However, areas of solid pigment

Pigment

A pigment is a material that changes the color of light it Reflection as the result of selective color absorption. This physical process differs from fluorescence, phosphorescence, and other forms of luminescence, in which the material itself emits light....
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

Sketch (drawing)

A sketch is a rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work. If in oil paint it is called an oil sketch. In general, a sketch is a quick way to record an idea for later use....
), of several (few) constant widths (as in technical illustration

Technical illustration

File:Drum set.svgTechnical Illustration is the use of illustration to visually communicate information of a technical nature. Technical illustrations can be component technical drawings or diagrams....
s), or of freely varying widths (as in brush work or engraving

Engraving

Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, usually flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass engraving are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing images on paper as prints or illustra...
).

Line art may tend towards realism

Realism (arts)

Realism in the visual arts and literature is the depiction of subjects as they appear in everyday life, without embellishment or interpretation....
(as in much of Gustave Doré

Gustave Doré

Paul Gustave Dor? was a France artist, engraver, illustrator and sculpture. Dor? worked primarily with wood engraving and steel engraving....
's work), or it may be a caricature

Caricature

A caricature is either a portrait that exaggerates or distorts the essence of a person or thing to create an easily identifiable visual likeness, or in literature, a description of a person using exaggeration of some characteristics and oversimplification of others....
, cartoon

Cartoon

The word cartoon has various meanings, based on several very different forms of visual art and illustration. The term has evolved over time.The original meaning was in fine art, and there cartoon meant a preparatory drawing for a piece of art such as a painting or tapestry....
, ideograph

Ideograph

Ideograph is a term coined by rhetorical scholar and critic Michael Calvin McGee describing the use of particular words and phrases as political language in a way that captures particular ideological positions....
, or glyph

Glyph

A glyph is an element of writing. Two or more glyphs representing the same symbol, whether interchangeable or context-dependent, are called allographs; the abstract unit they are variants of is called a grapheme or character ....
.

Before the development of photography

Photography

Photography is the process, activity and art of creating still or moving by recording radiation on a sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or an ....
and of halftone

Halftone

Halftone is the reprographic technique that simulates continuous tone imagery through the use of dots, varying either in size or in spacing. 'Halftone' can also be used to refer specifically to the image that is produced by this process....
s, line art was the standard format for illustrations to be used in print

Printing

Printing is a process for reproducing text and image, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing....
publications, using black ink on white paper. Using either stippling

Stippling

Stippling is the technique of using small dots to simulate varying Grayscale or shading.In a drawing or painting, the dots are made of pigment of a single color, applied with a pen or brush; the denser the spacing of the dots, the darker the apparent shade?or lighter, if the pigment is lighter than the surface....
or hatching

Hatching

Hatching is an artistic technique used to create tonal or shading effects by drawing closely spaced parallel lines. When lines are placed at an angle to one another, it is called cross-hatching....
, shades of gray could also be simulated.

Line art

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