Talk:Line drawing

An article about line drawing

I wonder if this disambig page can be turned into a article. To check I first investigated the existing publications on line drawing/line drawings:

• Books on line drawing
  • Frank William Bartlett & Theodore Woolsey Johnson (1932). Engineering Descriptive Geometry and Drawing: A Treatise on Line Drawing, Descriptive Geometry, and Engineering Or Mechanical Drawing, for the Use of Midshipmen at the United States Naval AcademyJ. Wiley & Sons, Inc.
  • Ashley Havinden (1933). Line Drawing for Reproduction The Studio, ltd., 1933
  • Douglas R. Graves (1971) Life Drawing in Charcoal‎

• Books on line drawings:
  • Pablo Picasso (1981). Picasso, Line Drawings and Prints: 44 Works‎
  • Cressida J. Heyes (2000). Line Drawings: Defining Women Through Feminist Practice‎
  • William Etkin (1950). College Biology: Line Drawings‎
  • Holger Arbman, Alan Binns (1961). The Vikings: 67 photographs, 38 line drawings, 6 maps‎
  • John Desmond Clark (1970). The Prehistory of Africa: 48 photographs, 62 line drawings, 10 maps‎
  • Michael Gough (1961). The Early Christians: 81 photographs, 38 line drawings, and 1 map‎

Now only the first book is on the theory of drawing, but the other books seems to be just about a series of line drawings in those books.

Second I am going to look at some quotes about line drawings:

• Gerald J. Alred et al. (2005) in The Business Writer's Handbook‎ p.172 states: The types of drawings discussed in this entry are conventional line drawings, exploded-view drawings, cutaway drawings, and clip-art images..."

Comment: here conventional line drawings are presented as a type of technical drawing.

• Kōkichi Sugihara (1986) in Machine Interpretation of Line Drawings‎, talks about solving "a long-standing problem in computer vision, the interpretation of line drawings and, in doing so answers many of the concerns raised by this..."

• Michael Kaufmann & Dorothea Wagner (2007) in Graph Drawing: 14th International Symposium, GD 2006, Karlsruhe, Germany, on page 90, "Grid drawings, straight-line drawings, and poly-line drawings are defined ... Three-Dimensional Straight-Line Drawings of Balanced Constant Degree Trees..."

Line art technical illustration from an engineering textbook (caption from current line art article).

Now this short inventarisation allready shows that the term line drawing has at least three meanings:

• A type of technical drawing
• line art, images that consists of distinct straight and curved lines placed against a (usually plain) background
• a type of drawings in graph drawing

Now I would like to construct and article about "line drawings as a specific type of technical drawing". A last step is consider an other article title, for such an article.

• In the current line art article a line drawings is introduced ad a "Line art technical illustration"
  • This term isn't mentioned in any books, and has a google rate of only 310.

Now a more simple title would be:

• "technical line drawing"
  • This term is listed in 64 books but has a google rate of only 1170.

There doesn't seem to be one clear choice here. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 14:57, 16 February 2009 (UTC)