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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)
Hello, this is my first attempt on the line weight exercise through the use of light and shadows, would love to get a feedback thanks.
I did a combined line weights project. In this I had vertical and depth appear far away,so lower towards the base and close up is the closest. Also the pot is the importance subject. For shadows I made those lines thicker. So if something is important and in shadow it would have the thickest line. Let me know if there are any feedback. Thank you!
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1d
Looks good! A couple of notes that will help sell the the depth:
- Overlap is one of our best tools for showing depth. The pear at the front is getting a little lost because there is no clear overlap.
- Vary outlines a bit more to show the directionality of light.
- If you’re using line weight to show shadow side, and light side, be sure to keep it fairly consistent to help with the illusion of depth.
Nice work. Keep it up!
First one is hierarchy of importance method and the second one is shadows and light direction method. I hope to receive feedback on my drawings. Thanks a lot.
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2d
I like your decisions here, my advice would be to push the line weight even more, especially in the hierarchy of importance drawing. It's difficult to see the different line weights because they are similar. I used the light and shadow drawing as an example to show how you can design your lines like shapes to create interesting effects. Hope that is helpful to you!
Hello, this is my first attempt on the line weight using the hierarchy of importance method on tracing paper.
First is light and shadows, second is hierarchy of importante, couldn’t find way to trace so I just drew from rhino picture first and tried to darken lines as I saw matched shadow and light, then I drew from prokos drawing and darkened what I thought was more important and lightened smaller details and lightens the shapes farther away like the far leg
Hello everyone, Here is another attempt of organizing line weight. It is a fan art of Greymon from Digimon in my own style. I hope you like it 😍
there`s my submit to this project
did it on the wacom
reaaaaaally like some feedback
I decided to do these digitally in krita!!! interesting lesson and it seemed kinda abstract. I messed some things up big time now that I see it but overall line weight is a cool thing to be aware of; critiques welcome
Didn’t have printer so I drew the rhino in hopes I could trace over it. I couldn’t. So I decided to find some pictures where I can try to utilize the different uses of line weights. The scenic photo I drew a thumbnail to try to simplify the drawing to focus more on the intended use of this exercise. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks!
I posted the rhino drawing a while ago and I was a big fan of light & dark method. Now I tried to practise with other pictures. This time I think the hierarchy of importance works great for me :)
I got bit lost on this. However I did show a family member to point where they focused on immediately and they pointed at the rhino head, which is what I wanted.
Red Tracing - Hierarchy of Importance
Blue Tracing - Shadow and Light
Done this assignment digitally on a screenless drawing tablet. I found the shadow and light one easier to do in comparison to the hierarchy of importance one - I think there were moments where I felt I wasn't too sure of what parts of the rhino to place more importance on, so ended up just making guesses which may not be accurate to the reference image. With the shadow and light one, it felt easier to tell from the reference image where to make more darker lines, and where to make more lighter lines.
Good project exercise! I think I have abit more understanding around the difference between the two methods for line weight.
Any feedback on how to improve would be greatly appreciated :)
Hey there, as a guy who recently also tried screenless tablet I know how challenging it can be :D My humble advice would be still to try make longer lines, like similar to what Stan mantioned about avoiding chicken scratching aka dozens of short lines :)
Cheers!
I recently decided to try to draw digitally and borrowed a tablet. This was so good project to get familiar with screenless tablet :D
And as always open to critique 🙌
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Very dynamic lineweights!
I think hierarchy-of-importance came out much better. All the shadow-and-light decisions Stan talked about in his demo were too much for my brain and I just ended up winging it. Also, I overcooked the post-production trying to get the pics nice and sharp, so they look like ink, but it's 4B pencil. LOL
Critique welcome.
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The first one is, Hierarchy of importance method and the second is, Shadows and light direction method. Please critique me.
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Nice work overall! I think you have great choices made. I would suggest utilizing more of the line weight range in the Hierarchy of Importance version, particularly using more of a light weight for the less important areas, as currently the heavier and lighter weights appear rather similar. I do think you have a good range in the Light & Shadows version, so nicely done!
