Line - Tone, Mark & Pattern

LINE - TONE, MARK AND PATTERN

>Describe the behaviour of light

>Different textures and mark making

• Hatching
• Cross hatching
• Scribbling
• Shading
• Made marks
• Patterns

>TOM GAULD - tone and light

>DAVID CALLOW - tonal, graphic devices 

3X4

>4 piece reference material - 3 drawings of each

Line week 2

Green ink - nib and brush  fig. 1

pencil fig.2

Pen fig.3

white pen on black acrylic

                                                   

pencil and red ink

pen and acrylic with dry brush

Initially, I struggled a little with this task. From coming from a practice of photo realistic drawing, I find it quite hard to break things up into simple line and shape work. I automatically go into carefully rendering mode which always creates this same outcome. So for my first drawing (fig.1) this is evident, with shading and tone. I definitely had chosen the wrong material, as ink provides the choice of dense lines or fluid brush strokes. Instead of should of chosen a material that gives you no choice but create lines that don't smudge or bleed. So I then learnt from this and used pen (fig.3) which I actually think is my favourite of that series of three, as it communicates the same as the previous two but with a lot less tone and time spent over it. It's made me realise that you don't need to spend ages over a drawing to make it say something, you can do just the same or maybe even better just using simple line and mark making.