With observational
drawings, lines can represent many things, edges, patterns, outlines, texture,
contours etc.
Why do we see the
world in line?
Whilst there aren’t
outlines in the real world, we interpret the point where two lines meet as a
line.
Practical
considerations:
Pencils & brushes
move in any direction
Nib pens are better in
one direction
Pencils, pens and
brushes can vary in thickness, but fineliners can’t.
Take all these into
consideration when drawing, depending on how you want to portray the subject.
Graphite pencils have
only been around for about 500 years, before that metalpoint drawings were made
using various metal wires as drawing implements. The most versatile was silver
wire and the drawings are referred to as silverpoint. With these, small
deposits of silver are left on a prepared sheet. Charcoal and chalk were used
before graphite to make fine, detailed line drawing.
Line quality refers to
the visual variations and graphic idiosyncrasies a line possesses.
‘Taking a line for a
walk’ – Paul Klee. Very unhurried… Lines are traces of an activity.
‘Locking my hand to my
eye’ – Turner describing the act of drawing.
Some lines need to be accurate,
for plans and designs, architecture and product/industrial design plans need to
be read accurately.
Speculative lines are
done without rubbing out and form part of the drawing.
Dark or heavy lines
look nearer, whereas light or thin lines look further away. Lines can be used
to create tone as cross-hatching.
Research: Steven
Braund, John Raynes, Lewis Campbell, George Stubbs, Raymond Sheppard, John
Farleigh, Lucy Kemp-Welch, Honore Daumier, Ronald Searle, Dave McKean, Jacob
Kenier, Henry Moore, John Sloane, Shelby Shackleford, Peggy Bacon, Martin
Ramirez, Mauria Lendak, James E Allen, Angela Barrett, Hugh Cowling, Tim
Ingold, Richard Long, Yuko Nishimuro, Raymond Briggs, Andy Goldsworthy, Sophia
Vlazaki.
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