Line Art
Line art or line drawing is any image that consist of distinct straight and curved lines placed against a background (usually plain) , without gradations in shade (darkness) or hue (color) to represent 2D or 3D 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 texture. 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 works or engraving).
Line art may tend towards realism (as in much of Gustave Dore's work), or it may be a caricature, cartoon, ideograph, or glyph.
Before the development of photography and of halftones, line art was the standard format for illustrations to be used in print publications, ising black ink on white paper. Using either stipping or
hatching, shades of gray could also be simulated.
One of the most fundamentals elements of art is the line. An important feature of a line is that it indicates the edge of a 2D(flat) shape or a 3D form. A shape can be indicated by means of an outline and a 3D form can be indicated by contour lines.

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