What is that filling up which represents the effect of more or less darkness, expressing rotundity, projection, etc., in a picture or a drawing called?
shading — That filling up which represents the effect of more or less darkness, expressing rotundity, projection, etc., in a picture or a drawing. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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