Discover the Potential of Line chapter 8
At this point, it’s important to be very selective about what
you add to and eliminate from the drawing. Here, the artist
almost completely focused on the rhythm of shapes
throughout the picture. With a little shading in the shell, the
plant, the interior of the pot, as well as the central vertical
frond of the palm plant, more strength was added to the
design, which also enhanced the drawing spatially. There are
many ways of shading a line drawing, some of which you
have seen in the various examples shown earlier in this
chapter.
In order to retain a consistency of technique, the artist chose
to use thin, parallel lines placed closely together which fol-
low the form.
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Lighten an Area
Inevitably, there will be areas of your line drawing that you’ll want to lighten,
without completely erasing what you have drawn. To do this, you can take your
clean, kneaded eraser and blot the areas that you feel are too dark. You can
also lightly rub the eraser over the lines to take away some graphite.CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE