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..."

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. Now a more simple title would be:
 * 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.
 * "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)