Character of Line Assignment
Character of Line Assignment
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Character of Line Assignment
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Edward Plamondon
Here is my rundown house. Done with a brush, ink and some whiteout. Decided that shading the whole side might be better than my clean house.
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Benjamin Gustafsson
A first pass. Probably need some bolder lines at certain areas. Shadows and cast shadows I'm insecure about. Some parts have, some don't. Will need to do a deep dive into that
Tash
15d
Katie Gall
1mo
Here’s a messy-ish shack. Feels like it needs some dark areas but I was undecided where to put them 🤷‍♀️
Benjamin Gustafsson
I felt the same about the dark areas. Keep it up! Looks beautiful
Clément Douziech
I found the house quite tricky and I will post some later but just wanted to post a drawing in which I was thinking of how not put a line and still understand the drawing. There are many things I would change if I needed to do it again but this is where I am for now !
Edward Plamondon
Here is my rundown house. Done with a brush, ink and some whiteout. Decided that shading the whole side might be better than my clean house.
Len Nicholas
fantastic, there is allot I like about this. Look for my feed back video. I'll give this a run down
@justjen
2mo
I love the texture on the roof and how it dissipates moving further from the viewer. The shadows make it seem more lived in and real. I'm going to have to try the effect you created with the white out some time; I think I might be hesitant only because of how it might screw up my drawing if I don't do it well, however. :D keep up great work.
Pamela D
2mo
Love your drawing, especially the grass and shadow effect
Christopher Corbell
Here are my two renderings for the line-character assignment. The first one is with dip pen and I thought it would be the 'clean' one, but I started looking for some inspiration at Franklin Booth who in my mind is a very 'clean' ink artist, but was surprised to notice his houses are all made with broken and incomplete lines, so I went with that approach. Then for the second one I used ballpoint and wanted to be very sketchy and grungy, but it's less grungy than I expected, though the lines have a faster sketchy energy I think.
Christopher Corbell
Inspirations - a Franklin Booth image with houses, and van Ostade 17th century peasant grunge (I stole his door).
Edward Plamondon
Here is the clean house, I added a light source just so there were more of the large dark areas as line. Although I realize the whole side should be dark if the light was this bright. Maybe I should have used a reverse line? I hope to get to the messy house out soon. This was done digitally due to time.
Pamela D
2mo
I enjoyed creating the messy house style the most, although I think it’s because it feels easier, but actually took longer.
Michael Giff
If you build it. They should... most definitely not come... because that roof is going to cave in and kill somebody! Yeah, I don't have much intuition for these things so I'm constantly looking back and forth from some notes and then forget where I want place some lines... really need to make a 'true rough' Make sure I know where I want the silhouette line, parting and spring lines and then take notes on what the strokes should look like. So for this one it was just the textile brush pen and Maru Nib. Tried incorporating the side brush for parts of the roof that are headed away from the viewer. Not sure if I pulled it off. Got greedy and tried to add some more contour lines.. but kind of wrecked the perspective. Here's hoping that the clean ruled version will pass the housing inspector. Edit: Just realized that my print out didn't come with the stairs XD. Not sure what happened there. It appears in photos but doesn't print for some reason? Something to troubleshoot in the morning.
Michael Giff
Does not look like I'll have time to ink this one (I'm sure I'll have plenty of chances to practice in the future) Every line was ruled... even the hash marks! Tried adding some texture to the wood and still get that faded effect as the house falls back into space... but both marks look too similar so they kind of blend into one. Try to do better next time. Have a good weekend folks! I'm spending my weekend drawing a dragon yeeting a dwarf!! Tools Used: .07mm 2B mechanical pencil, .03mm 2B mechanical pencil, ruler, erasers
Linus Lehmann
I think you did a good job with making the lines very different from each other. Also the lines on the house look very much like wood! As for the roof, I would recommend that compare any lines that you draw on the roof to the edges of the roof. I they are parallel to the edges it looks like the follow the form (thats also how you would draw tiles on the roof.)
Linus Lehmann
I did a drawing of a rabbit in pencil and drew over it with dip pen. The black areas I filled in with a brush. I scanned it in black and white, so the pencil can not be seen anymore. I tried to really think about all the different kind of lines and using them intentionally. I will do the houses soon aswell. Im just very short on time currently, as I work alot on my universitystuff.
@justjen
2mo
So cute! Nice choices for line types. I'm also impressed with the "silhouette" of grass blades against the shaded areas. Can't wait to see what you do in losing lines assignment.
Michael Giff
Looks terrific. Did you use something for the grass when it's in the shadow of the tree trunk? Or did you just spot the blacks in a way to make it look like you drew the grass?
Len Nicholas
this is great, did you get to the opening your lines lesson, It looks like you are touching on it.
@justjen
3mo
Messy house submission #1. I did this pretty quickly. I want to try again and include some other line types instead of overly relying on pointillist and professional dot lines.
Michael Giff
Both of your submissions look great. The messy house looks like something I would see in a comic while the clean drawing looks like a 3/4ths view I would see in an architecture work book. Good stuff. Think I'll follow in your fine example and make myself a cheat sheet tonight and hopefully find time to do at least part one of the assignment tomorrow.
@justjen
3mo
My clean house submission. I did not use all of the lines I initially set out to use because I thought they might be too "messy". The house is kind of boring.
Len Nicholas
fantastic work. New critique video coming next week
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