Line drawing is the basic training of a painter, who must learn it well before moving on to the delicate details of realistic scenes or the more abstract spirit of impressionism.

素描是画家的基本训练，他必须学好它前行的现实场景，精致的细节或印象派的更抽象的精神。

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In the creation of lacquer paintings, the painter should first focus on the design language of point, line, plane, shape, body, space, light, color, quality and texture.

漆画创作者在创作中，首先要注重点、线、面、形、体、空间、光、色、材质和肌理等设计语言的创作形式。

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Let say the errant line painter - Bob - was directly employed by the Highways department of Cardiff Council, as he would presumably have been in the past.

BBC: Lines painted in early Spring...