DESIGN is also used, in Painting, to signify the first idea of a large work, drawn roughly, and with an intention to be carefully executed and finished.
In this sense it means the simple contour or outline of the figures intended to be represented, or the lines which terminate and circumscribe them: and such design is sometimes drawn in crayons or ink, without any shadows at all; sometimes it is hatched, that is, the shadows are expressed by sensible outlines, usually drawn across each other with the pen, crayon, or graver. Sometimes, again, the shadows are done with the crayon rubbed, so that the lines may not appear; at other times, the grains or stroke of the crayon appear from its not being rubbed: sometimes the design is washed, that is, the shadows are done with a pencil in Indian ink, or some other liquor; and sometimes the design is coloured, that is, colours are laid on much like those intended for the grand work.