Foreshorten

[fore·short·en]

When an artist foreshortens, she makes an object appear closer or a distance shorter than it is, to create a sense of depth in a painting or drawing.

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To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.

Verb
reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"

Verb
shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth


v. t.
To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.

v. t.
Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination.


Foreshorten

Fore*short"en , v. t. 1. (Fine Art) To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective. 2. Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination.
Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie Foreshortened in the tract of time.

To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.

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