Week 4: Lines

The magic of lines 

Week 4

At the start of week 4 tutorial. We are told to draw line on board and I though there aren’t that many variety of lines. I thought that lines should be straight but it doesn’t have to be! It can be anything.

I have selected two pictures of which I should choose one:

  

I chose the left picture in the end because of the bridge curves away.

Our first task is to draw the outlines of the picture using tracing paper. It was first time using tracing paper for me. I couldn’t see what I draw until the very end when I took tracing paper off the found picture which felt weird. I was missing some lines when I took the tracing paper out and I eventually fixed it.

The second task is to draw focusing on picture’s details. I wanted to focus on lines that were not going along with the helix and shadows and darker spots. I also included the details under the helix bridge to see that there is a walking path on the bridge.

On our last task, I have to focus on the thickness of the pencil and think more deeply of the helix bridge. I wanted to make the helix bridge look like a helix. Therefore, I only focused on the bridge and ignored other details of the picture. I also tried to draw lines from start until the end without lifting the pencil to make it continuous.

Last thoughts: Outlines gives the one who is watching image ideas of what the picture could be. Someone draw outlines of the apple tree and many instantly thought about it as a tree. When the picture gets more details then the focus will move to some of the details rather than just the outline.