linework en · NOUN
Etymology
From line + work.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The technique of drawing lines.
Dalrymple’s linework, tremulous and twitchy, and Paul Hornschemeier’s muted colors don’t look much like any other superhero comics; there’s a sense of human frailty to their characters that inverts the muscles-and-action tradition.
2009 March 1, Douglas Wolk, “The First Action Heroes”, in New York Times: