Teach Yourself Visually Drawing

Containers #2,by Eileen Eder, courtesy of artist

Gallery: Line Drawings.

In this still-life line drawing, the artist used a fairly consistent, heavy line throughout. However, on careful observation, you can
see subtle breaks in the lines, as well as a number of darker, accentuated lines. On many of the openings of the objects, the
far side of the ellipse was drawn more lightly, along with a few carefully placed interruptions in the lines. This gives the effect
of the shape receding in space. Notice that the reflections were also drawn more lightly; this is an effective device that sepa-
rates the solid objects from their mirror images.