Sentence:  his quill <WSD>drawings</WSD> had a scratchiness , suggesting skin texture ; the clay he used plastically to suggest soft moving flesh , as in an abdomen , in a reclining torso ; the wax he smoothed over to give the body surface an elastic pull . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book, magazine, or newspaper