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

8.9K

Assignments 1.1K

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)

Carmen-Eveline

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wow this was SO MUCH FUN!! has completely changed my perspective on line, I have only done the hierarchy of importance here, not watched the demo yet. I tried to trace best I could but I found myself struggling to control my lines so I relaxed a little, i think it can be seen in the head area, as that's what I started with, I grew more confident and comfortable with the rest of the body. I wanted to draw attention to what I felt was closer to the viewer. I have a lot to learn, and I will have to revisit the previous videos a few more times but I really enjoyed this! Tried to apply all the concepts I think I have understood from this chapter so far. done digitally in clip studio paint with a pencil brush

Yevhen Syrchin

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17h

that was fun! I would like to learn how to draw without tracing also😅 so keep practicing 🤓

@yashimon

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I tried the level one (trace), carefully looking at the photo of the rhino.

Mason Stroud

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Rhino Project done digitally. Hierarchy and Light Order respectively. I haven't really used my tablet that much so this was an interesting experience.

Melanie Scearce

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Looks great!

@nickyenchilada

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Level 1 Rhino. I did it a bit by feeling. I don't recall whether it has been mentioned in this class but other than contour, people have told me that you could also express importance for shapes that overlap each other and shapes that that are nearer/further than in space so I tried to incorporate that as well.

Alexandru Atanasiu

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Level 1 assigment done digitally

Rachel Dawn Owens

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Super clean work

Ssss 13

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Rachel Dawn Owens

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ella es linda! She looks like a long bean. Nice drawing. Trabajo es bueno.

Juan Andres Gonzalez Trejo

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i think i add extra weight in the first one, the 2nd one not sure if i got the shadow direction correct

@pmirko

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hopefully i've got this right....

Melanie Scearce

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You definitely have the right idea. The areas you darkened all look correct to me. You used one line thickness for these -- to push this even further you could experiment by building width in some areas for even more emphasis.

Ssss 13

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11d

creo que hice muy parecidos ambos dibujos

Rachel Dawn Owens

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11d

Bonito dibujo. Empujarlo más.

Arsen

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12d

Proportion may be a bit off but that wasn't the main point of assignment. Anyway I hope these are great overall

Rachel Dawn Owens

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11d

Cool style

@fox4

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15d

@alysialynn

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17d

This is my attempt at the line weight exercise. Looking back, I should have used medium lines on the claws/toenails.

Alex Smith

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19d

There was definitely some choice paralysis on this one with a lot of the lines, especially on some of the skin folds (major vs minor shapes), but I definitely enjoyed this exercise. It was nice to trace something and only focus on line weight. I do need to work on my pen sensitivity settings though, those transitions from thick/heavy to thin/light aren't the prettiest in the shadow line weight drawing, but I hope it still gets the intent across.

Alex Smith

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19d

Seeing the shadow one as a thumbnail now, I can definitely see that the difference between the largest/darkest line, and the medium lines is too extreme. I could probably have made the minor lines a bit thicker.

Metatron

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21d

Had to do digital since printer out of ink. This is the first time since the pear I'm not sure I did it "right" maybe that's just getting used to digital though.

@mangosandtangos

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23d

1st is hierarchy of importance, 2nd is light and shadow, I feel like I could've thickened the lines in hierarchy and I suppose I could just go over it again but I'm looking to move forward and I plan on redoing this project incorporating level 2 after I progress a bit down the line category

@sosoph

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23d

Hi :). Here are my two drawings for level 1. :)

Márta Kovács

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17h

These look great!

Jens Messmer

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25d

I jumped right into the light-shadow variant. The first one is represents the lighting as shown in the reference photo. For the second one I tried to inverse light source, so that it comes from below left. For this version I used the rhino-red-line provided by Stan so that I did not have to trace it all again from scratch.

@allebaten

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17d

I really enjoyed how you divide the core shadow from light with the hatched line. Gonna steal that!

Kayley

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25d

This was a refreshing project! It was fun to trace things. For the first rhino, I was kind of just playing around with stuff. For my second rhino, I was attempting the hierarchy and highlighting things that I wanted to be the main focus. I can’t say I’m too happy with it but I’m going to try again after watching the demo! For my third rhino, I focused on the light and shadow method. The light and shadow one was tricky for me because I didn’t want to darken too much of the lines to make it overwhelming or unreadable. Overall, I learned something new so I’ll take it! Onto the demo now and reattempting >:)

@squash

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27d

I felt a bit unsure doing these, but it all made way more sense after watching the demos. Hierarchy on the left, shadow on the right

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Stan Prokopenko

Founder of Proko, artist and teacher of drawing, painting, and anatomy. I try to make my lessons fun and ultra packed with information.