Evening Drawing
Week 12: One Line Drawing
Helena Lukášová, Hana Pokojná
One-line- why?
• We focused on measuring for past few weeks
• Now it’s time to draw intuitively
• Simple technique
• Great for letting your hand and perfectionist self go
• Less precise, more chaotic but also has character
• Shorter drawing sessions but with more focus
Portrait by Kris Tappenies
How?
• Look at the model and create composition in your mind on the
paper
• Hover above paper with the tip of the pencil in fluid motions
• Start somewhere- anywhere!
• Move to some other part you find interesting cross the paper
• Continue this until you can’t continue… or are told to stop
• At first it will look like a messy splodge, abstractions aren’t bad
• Then move to moving around darker parts- darker splodges
• Gradually return to dak parts and detail
• Yes-still in one go
Abstract portrait by Robert Yaeger
Splodges gradually gain form
Your turn
• Yes, just one line
• No, no erasers
• BUT the results are nice and it’s fun to do ☺
• If you pick up the pencil from the notebook it’s ok, but get back into the
momentum
• We will start with a whole body- try to capture the silhouette, the character. Make
sure the model is recognisable based on figure and without face or any details
• Later in the lesson we will do portraits, once your hand is at ease