(1) Custom tattooing (like freehand drawing without a stencil) is increasingly popular with customers, especially those with multiple tattoos.(2) The term refers to freehand brushwork in traditional Chinese painting characterized by vivid expression and bold outlines.(3) Over the years I've learned that warnings written freehand in felt marker, blood, or lipstick carry far more weight than professionally-printed signs.(4) These pens are perfect for spontaneous freehand sketches as well as ink drawings with precise detail.(5) Alluding to the tradition of Chinese landscape painting, these freehand images attempt a clear fluid action, a trusting precision in placement, colour and weight of application of the brush.(6) As is characteristic of Johns's graphic work of this time, the drawings feature freehand scribbles, carefully limned curves, erasures and tonal blurring.(7) The graph has been drawn freehand , with two spidery black lines crawling across white paper.(8) But where normal graffiti is executed freehand and as a one-off, stencil graffiti combines the Pop Art ethos of multiples with an aesthetic that mimics the punchy signage favoured by authority.(9) In Germany in the sixteenth century the Briefmaler, or print colorist, either used stencils to cover predetermined portions of a print or executed the coloring freehand .(10) Photographs and text are supplemented by explanatory freehand sketches by the author which give a clear explanation of the engineering concept of each design.(11) They learn by visiting the campus, taking field measurements, making freehand sketches, and documenting their research in digital media.(12) The power of the computer enables them to make intricate geometric shapes quickly and easily that would be extremely difficult - if not impossible - to do freehand .(13) The intricate work, based on Victorian romantic decoration, was all done freehand using house paint.(14) He starts by drawing a pen line freehand , something which can only be interpreted as a line of ink.(15) Each student then chose one of these thumbnail sketches to enlarge to a predetermined size and drew freehand on a piece of black construction paper.(16) Some artists use a stencil to transfer the design to the skin, others draw freehand .
