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In this project, we'll practice organizing line weight in our drawings.
Level 1 - Trace
Trace over the provided linear version of the photo to avoid getting distracted by proportions. Trace it twice, using two different line weight approaches discussed in the last video:
- Hierarchy of importance method - Heavier on the contours of large and important shapes. Lighter on details within.
- Shadows and light direction method - Reference the original photo to identify the shadows.
Note: Don't use the depth and form method yet.
Level 2 - Draw from Observation
Level 2 students, in addition to the tracing exercise, try to trace it again, but imagine the light coming from a different direction IF you’re ready for that.
Then, draw from observation, focusing on line weight. Choose objects around you and draw as many as you'd like. If you draw a landscape with a clear foreground, middleground, and background, you can use the depth approach to line weight.
Deadline for submissions to be included in the video critique is next Thursday (4/13/2023)
Never really thought about line weight before so this was new! Appreciated that we have something to trace to try and visualize onto, on to the demo!
My favorite was the third “make your own light source” one, least favorite the second (light and shadow) because I don’t think I made some of the lines thick enough.
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1d
Nice work, these all look great! The third is my favorite too, you conveyed the weight so well! :)
They both were fun but i think for personal projects I may prefer Hierarchy of importance but I'll play around!
Line weight depth approach level 2 submission. Reference was an illustration from artist Poopikat
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1d
Great job, the depth really communicates across clearly through the line weight!
Not used to using tablet but I don't have a printer on hand. Really struggled with this one due to not being able to find a comfortable sensitivity for the tablet pen and it's tiny size making it difficult to get lines down properly.
I really enjoyed this one! Maybe it was the fact of having an image already and not having to try draw it to scale or anatomically myself 😂 Just being able to focus in the lines felt more stylistic and easier (at least for me!)
The light wrapping around the form is easy enough going through the lines to see what will catch light, shading, shadow, and occlusion is not. I'd say I need to sharpen my pencil next time so most of the lines aren't the same. Turned out alright, but definitely need to work on it.
This was fun. Felt relatively easy. Once again biggest struggle was control over the lines. tried two different brushes. I should probably experiment with how I make the stroke. Maybe it will make lines easier to control in digital.
I miss the paper friction. It would be easier to do the traditional. But I am stubborn and I will learn the digital medium.
Anyway. Here are the results. I did bump up the difficulty on the light and shadow to lvl 2 and so the light is coming from the different angle.
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6d
Nice work! Your lines look good to me, but I understand the feeling of trying to nail down that control digitally.
Importance and light and shadow. 5b pencil . Not sure how much to push the thickness in certain areas.
Wow. Harder again!
I felt like my lightest lines were too light, although clearly showing the areas I wanted to appear in and out of shadow.
Perhaps I should have used light thick lines for the contour to retain the form (but then that's not really what the exercise is about as I understand it).
Fun exercise.
Really challenging.
For example I wasn't sure on the.best solution when I had an area of shadow in the background with a lit foreground object (rhs of head over shades body/neck is a good example). Shading the head contour dark maybe makes it feel in shade when it isn't. Then again perhaps that's preferable if the lightened details still convey the sense of being lit.
Hard but fun. Tried to blend from heavy thick to light thin in a few areas that transitioned (e.g. rhs of front left leg)
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6d
I think you've done a great job on this exercise! The lighter lines are pretty light, but I'd only darken them a tiny bit, if you decide to do so.
Ill try shadows and light later. Much harder than expected! I need a clearer medium importance range. Light and dark are... OK. Ish. (In places)
Haven't drawn on tablet In a while. Lines felt good at first to lay out baseline, but then very hard to feel like I wasn't just shading almost when I wanted thicker lines. More foresight would have helped here.
My choice of heavy vs not is a little muddled too. Sort of wish I'd kept the base of the horn thick and made both sides thin out approaching the top vs just front side. Some fairly noisy face details i wish I'd kept light too
Alternatively maybe I could have pushed the thickness across the whole outline, inherently making my inner lines medium! Ha maybe I'll try that...
I did like blending the toes with the grass though to make them feel part of the same scene
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6d
Nice work! I think you could even make the heaviest outline of the Hierarchy of Importance a bit heavier to give a bit more contrast, but overall these look good!
this was much harder than expected, also because I was forced to draw digitally for the first time. I think my strokes were too light on the light side of the shadow assignment, but overall it was great to learn. Never realized line weight could influence a sketch so much.
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15d
Nice job! And good catch with the Hierarchy of Importance, so kudos also for redoing it. Depth is another different way to organize line weight, and a very useful one at that, so it was good practice nonetheless and something you can add to your artistic toolbox now :)
After seeing the demo and critique, I think I needed to try the hierarchy of importance again. My first attempt was less that and more as if it was conveying depth I think.
Had to use my drawing tablet since I don't have a working printer. I feel like I did pretty good, but I could probably work on this more.
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Left is Hierarchy of Importance, Right is Shadows and Light (also if it's too dark open the image in a new tab)
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18d
Looks good! If possible, I'd try using a brush that changes size and tapers with pen pressure- that way it'll look and feel more natural, as if you did it with pencil. That way you can do some more subtle width changes in the horn and toes, like in the demo!
I did the first one with a 2b pencil then notice it was too light, the second one i did with a 6b pencil and i think it looks more graphic then the first. On the second one i was trying to capture the light with thinner lines, I did get a little confused where to put the thicker lines though.
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15d
Nice work overall! With the first drawing, for Hierarchy of Importance, it's good that you have the outside outline bold, making it the most important statement. I would still add some heavy/middle weight areas inside the rhino itself, too, to mark the 2nd and 3rd next important areas (such as the eyes/face area, or any major folds you deem important), thus making it a hierarchy.
With the 2nd drawing for light and shadow, it's good overall in the areas where light/shadow go. The thicker lines do go where the shadow lands on the rhino, so you have it correctly placed, nice work :)
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15d
Try playing around with different brushes/brush sizes, or try adjusting the brush size's pressure settings, so you can push the difference in thick vs thin lines. I think that would make your line weight choices pop a bit more :)
