Lineweight help
11mo
@robikobi
I’ve drawn this viking warrior and I wanted to practice lineweight for the first time. In theory I know the lineweight depends on the depth, light and hierarchy of importance but combining it all into this character was really difficult and confusing so a lot of the time I didn’t really know what I was doing. Can you please give me some tips to improve my lineweight? The arrow represent the source of light. I’m open to critique on everything else as well.
Well, it's not necessary to do all of those line weight principles all at the same time. With a character design, it's best to use it to indicate lighting. It will give your character a head start in showing dimension.
A bigger issue is actually the drawing. It is lacking in gesture causing it to look stiff and flat. I did a quick sketch to show you how you can add these elements to make your characters more fluid and dimensional. I hope it helps :)
Thank you very much! As a self taught artist, a critique like this makes a world of difference when trying to improve, specially coming from a pro artist. Now that you pointed it out and drew your pose for comparison I can see it really does look flat. I will add more gesture studies to my practice schedule.
