a. Of drawing: Done with a free hand, i.e., without guiding instruments, measurements, or other artificial aid. Also absol. or quasi-sb. = free-hand drawing.
1862. in Dict. Arch. (Arch. Publ. Soc.), s.v.
1879. Cassell’s Techn. Educ., I. 48/1. The study and practice of freehand drawing gives accuracy to the eye and refines the perceptive faculties.
1888. Nature, XXXVII. 26 Jan., 294/2. The curve was not done by freehand, but by means of engineers’ curves, which give very much more accurate results.
