It is one of the various ways to transfer a preparatory drawing onto the definitive support. The indirect incising foresees the use of a paper model that, laid against the support, is incised along the outline of the drawing with a cutting instrument or a point (style), so that the lines remain on the new support. Due to the necessity of a surface which allows an impression, the incision drawing from a cartoon finds ample use in the fresco technique (where it is distinguishable from direct incising due to the roundness of the traced borders) or on imprimaturas of gesso and glue. See cartoon.