Line Quality Is Ace

Today in our SP groups we learnt about quality of line and how important it is in making a quality drawing. We started off by learning the principles of line quality, which were very interesting but hard to wrap your head around (for me anyway). We then sat and made three different sheets of marks, one straight lines, one circle, one square and one zig zag, this was really challenging but made me realise that I really only ever use either a fine pencil line or a thin fine-liner line. 

We then made a few portraits of people in our class using our marks, which was so interesting, I only made two as I realised it takes so much longer to make a decent image using a method your'e not used to. But my favourite one was the one using the end of a paintbrush and ink. I really like the varied line thickness and the shaky effect it gives. This method also makes it really easy to build colour starting with light strokes and adding more ink to create depth.

Using a thick square brush and quick strokes

Using the end of a paintbrush and ink