2. Line styles 3 min
•Line quality in drawings, just as in one's signature, is very personal and can often distinguished one artist from another. The ability to create different line styles is also an ongoing area of interest in computer graphics.
•Work in the handout's rectangular areas, experimenting and practicing different line qualities.
•Vary
–pressure (shading)
–line direction (crosshatching)
–line form (line thickness)
–speed (gesture)
•Do not draw anything recognizable, simply focus on the abstract line qualities.
•Try to keep the variables as separate as possible (i.e., not varying several of them at once).
Joan Miro
Matteo Rosseli, detail