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Foreshorten   Listen
Foreshorten

verb
1.
Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements.  Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, reduce, shorten.
2.
Shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth.






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"Foreshorten" Quotes from Famous Books



... which are on the upright wall m n are to be drawn in their proper form, since, as the wall recedes the figure will be foreshortened by itself; but [that part of] the figure which goes into the cove you must foreshorten, as if it were standing upright; this diminution you must set out on a flat floor and there must stand the figure which is to be transferred from the vertical plane r n[Footnote 17: che leverai dalla ...
— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci

... scraped out with the palette knife,—"but I find it almost impossible to teach you. There's a queer grim Dutch touch about your painting that I like; but I've a notion that you're weak in drawing. You foreshorten as though you never used the model, and you've caught Kami's pasty way of dealing with flesh in shadow. Then, again, though you don't know it yourself, you shirk hard work. Suppose you spend some of your time on line lone. Line doesn't allow ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling



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