shade in
shade in
To darken some specified area of an image. A noun or pronoun can be used between "shade" and "in." I spent nearly an hour just shading in the upper lip of this portrait I'm working on. For every donation we receive, the teacher will shade an area in on this graph.
See also: shade
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
shade in
v.
1. To represent degrees of shade or shadow in some drawing or picture, so as to give the illusion of depth: The artist shaded in the contours of the model's face in the portrait.
2. To darken some bounded area that is drawn or printed on a surface: The teacher shaded in the area where the circles overlapped with yellow chalk. I'm going to shade in the left side of this drawing with crosshatches to make it darker.
See also: shade
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.
- angle
- angling
- not do (someone or oneself) any favors
- adopt out
- involve with
- involve with (someone or something)
- involved with
- arrange for
- arrange for some time
- arrange some music for