cartoon

1) A full-scale drawing for a painting or tapestry, used to transfer the composition to the final medium. Video here. Web resource here. See also: pouncing.

Raphael. Cartoon for the School of Athens (det.). Ca. 1510. Charcoal and white lead on paper. Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan.

2) A simplified and/or exaggerated drawing intended as satire or humor. See also: caricature.

Cartoon by Mike Twohy. The New Yorker. 2001.

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