foreshortening

== English == === Noun === foreshortening (countable and uncountable, plural foreshortenings) (art) A technique for creating the appearance that the object of a drawing is extending into space by shortening the lines with which that object is drawn. A similar contracted appearance in film or photography, etc. ==== Translations ==== === Verb === foreshortening present participle and gerund of foreshorten === Further reading === foreshortening on Wikipedia.Wikipedia