Line weight drawing

Gateway Information for Achieving Better Line Work Good day to you all and welcome back. There is a trend currently in many of the art schools I work with with a growing number of students who are eager to get involved with animation, or more specifically with character development.

A simple technique we can employ to add variety and direct our audience's attention is by varying the weight of the lines within our sketch. Line weight is the visual strength or intensity of a line. We can achieve different line weights or intensities by changing the thickness of a line or changing how light or dark a line appears. We can even do both by changing the thickness and the darkness of a line. The Benefits of Varying the Weight of a Line Using a variety of line weights in our…

Q: Is there any way you could explain the way you apply line weight (when inking) and why you would do it in a particular place? A: You can find out a little bit about line weights and variations in my tutorial on inking part one and part two, but I don’t touch on it too deeply. I do say the following: You add weight to a line to make something seem heavier or more substantial, or to place it solidly in front of another object, or to emphasize a light source. . . . which really is 90% of the…

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Description Simple little art lessons that either helped me a lot, are mistakes that a lot of new artists make, or are things I personally still need to keep in mind. Edit: The previews didn't really work on deviantart. So I made a different version for here.

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