Project - Organizing Line Weight

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Project - Organizing Line Weight

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Stan Prokopenko

in Drawing Basics

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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)

Angel Kritikos

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15h

Here are my assignments

@deadsm

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This was fun!

Bree Bree

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Here are my tracing exercises. I did my tracing on Procreate.

@murmur_a

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First go at the tracing exercise. Went digital this time.

Rachel Dawn Owens

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Lovely

J M

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This was hard to do in paper with graphite pencils. For the hierarchy of importance, I felt like it was hard to make the lines any thinner than they were already in the page. The shadow and light version was easier to make the lines look and feel different.

Nivla

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Here is my level one assignment. Would love some feedback on the lines for the light and shadow version.

@shadesea

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So here is my level one assignment. I am really not sure about how I did, after watching demo I am planning to do level 2. Struggled with line drawing a lot this time and with light and shadows I found a few situations where technically the outline is supposed to be in light, as the shape it attaches to is lit, but it is right at the edge for strong shadow. I am unsure of what to do in these situations. Do I treat these areas as if they are in shadow? In work I attached I did them as if they are in light, but it felt wrong..?

@shadesea

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Also, I would like to have some feedback on the quality of my lines and lineweight. I want to know how good or bad they came out, because I really can't feel or understand them...

Carolyn Keough

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Enjoyed this assignment. Did it in procreate. Feedback?

Patricio Urrutia

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My rhinos form and shadow. At the beginning it felt like cheating, but then it was fun, like painting a mandala.

Ethan Burke

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Decided to draw this using what I learned from sketch from observation to keep working on those skills.

Mika Vermeulen

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I tried drawing a frog with the depth line weight method. This also was a great wat to practice lose sketching early on the drawing!

lukewarm paint

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So I don't have a printer, so what I did was sketching the rhino with as even of line weight as I could, then did a second pass to add weight. That's why the proportions are a bit off. I tried doing hierarchy of importance, trying to emphasize the head of the rhino, and I like it, but I'm not sure if I properly identified and ordered what was important. I could definitely use some pointers. Fun project 😊.

@silver847

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10d

The light and dark was definitely difficult for me, but I think it turned out okay. What do you think?

@silver847

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10d

The light and shadow is the first image in case that’s not clear. The second one is the hierarchy image

@kenz

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12d

Light and shadow

@kenz

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12d

A Still a bit confused about this concept. But made it

Mika Vermeulen

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13d

@rcruey1027

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15d

Rachel Dawn Owens

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15d

Very delicate lines on the first one. Nice work!

Jenna

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17d

Here's my version of the "Hierarchy of Importance Method". I wasn't able to upload a "shadows and light" version, since my printer stopped working. :(