Project - Organizing Line Weight

Lesson by

Stan Prokopenko

inDrawing Basics

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Project - Organizing Line Weight

Lesson by

Stan Prokopenko

in Drawing Basics

10K

Course In Progress

Assignments 1.3K

Downloads 8

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)

@linetime

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Please let me know what I can improve!

Ryan C

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My attempts at the rhino and other objects, using the importance and lighting methods. I definitely struggled with over-pressing the pencil and with keeping my lines fluid and not hairy. The rhino-lighting one was interesting; I found it a bit difficult to keep the overall subject coherent with all those dark detail lines on the shadow side of the body.

Rachel Dawn Owens

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Youre getting it. Keep going!

Jessica Ambron

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Melanie Scearce

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Perfect!

@jjones

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Had some fun with some different creatures, plus an angry hippo! The hippo is my favorite of the bunch.

Melanie Scearce

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GREAT line quality!

@brimarie

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Wow, fantastic line guide and great selection of animals. They all turned out super great, but I clearly prefer the snails:-)

Nancy Larson

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Great intro to line weight!

mark bonaccorso

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My attempt at the hierarchy of importance version, Found it harder to decide which lines to make thinner within body than which I felt had most importance

mike mcdonald

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First attempt

Noah Myburgh

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I attempted working on overlapping forms more specifically: more clearly separating forms from one another and defining what objects are closer to the viewer. I ran out of space on my page so I didn’t include everything displayed in the reference. Critiques are more than welcome.

Melanie Scearce

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Clean linework @Noah Myburgh! Here are a couple of notes that hopefully help!

Le Hai

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10d

I drew the rhino digitally because I don't have a printer. However, I had a lot of fun drawing the rhino.

Martha Muniz

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10d

Looks like a solid drawing! I would recommend thickening the areas meant for heavier line weight, so the distinction between the heavy and light line weight is more readable.

Bohdan Fedorchenko

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11d

I tried doing it digitally. Maybe a little too timid with line weight, but happy with the result

@landsloth

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11d

Tried to create light and shadow with a leopard shark

@landsloth

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12d

Had a lot of fun doing this!

@wildwolf531

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15d

Here are my first attempts. The light and shadow one was definitely the most difficult.

Noah Myburgh

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16d

I attempted to follow along with Stans demo (organising line weight bye Depth and form) and tried implementing the concepts and techniques I picked up on with other references. It was difficult to imitate Stans overhand hand positioning since he is right handed and I am left. If I’m honest I’m not to happy with how these turned out, although they are an improvement compared to my last attempt. I’m unsure if I managed to effectively convey depth and form in my own attempts. critiques are more than welcome.

Melanie Scearce

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16d

Yes, these are very successful, especially the first pair of shoes! The way you've used line weight is perfect. I like the use of overlap in the second pair of shoes, and I think if you applied that idea a bit more in the first pair, you'd define the form more. Great work overall :)

@eyeeatlight

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17d

The first picture is importance, second is light. I really enjoyed this assignment. I found harder than I expected to work out the hierarchy of importance, and with the light it was hard to fight the urge to just fill in with whole blocks of shadow! On another note its a change for me using digital, and I really enjoyed that too!