Gesture & Contour (continued) – Contour, meaning to draw the lines seen in a subject with enhanced tactile content. This is done by creating the strong belief that you are ‘touching’ the object edges with finger tips or surfaces with flats of fingers. This “intention or belief” is imprinted into the marks and then on to the viewer. Edges (imagine finger tips touching). These marks are seen as lines; For surfaces (imagine finger flats touching). These become smooth or rough textured surfaces.
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***Watch video: VIDEO ON LINEWEIGHTS Lineweights {Nov 2016}
Lineweights matter in ‘communication’ with the viewer. Generally we prefer to look at a ‘line enhanced’ drawing largely because of its communicative power. This video shows a systematic way of enhancing lines.
Lineweight Assignment: Draw some abstract objects/shapes as in the video. Apply lineweight strategy to enhance object with the 4 types of weights described in the lesson demo: Draw object lines first; then darken ‘flylines’; next apply joint lines; and finally apply textures, such as woodgrain, to some surfaces.