Usage Note
Strichzeichnung is a drawing executed purely with lines, without tonal shading. It is the most direct graphic form, demanding confident mark-making; Strichzeichnungen are used in technical illustration, fashion design and fine art contour drawing.
Examples
"Die Strichzeichnungen im Modekatalog wurden mit feinen Finelinern angefertigt."
Natural Translation
The line drawings in the fashion catalogue were made with fine fineliners.
Literal Translation
The line-drawings in-the fashion-catalogue were with fine fineliners made.
Related Words
- Abguss cast, casting (plaster or metal replica of a sculpture)
- Abstraktion abstraction (non-representational art)
- Acrylfarbe acrylic paint
- Akanthus acanthus (decorative leaf motif)
- Akt nude
- Aktmalerei nude painting; figure painting
- Aktmodell life model; nude model (for drawing or painting)
- Aktzeichnung life drawing, figure drawing (of the nude)
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