We respect your privacy. Unsubscribe at any time. Where I share tips, tutorials and ideas :. Skip to content. Facebook Pinterest Twitter Share shares. Table of Contents. Egon Schiele, Sitting Child , Source: my second doodle! John C. Calhoun, Savinien Edme Dubourjal, source. Emma 14 Aug Reply. Mihir Biswas 18 Oct Reply. Super basic knowledge on lines. Thanks a lot. You are welcome, Mihir!
Precious Life 10 Feb Reply. Please how can I cite your article? Alma Mendigorin 28 Oct Reply. Apoorva 2 Apr Reply. Yasmin afiqah 23 May Reply. It helps me very well as a designer student. Love from Malaysia. Abigail 24 Aug Reply. Abdul Qadeer 8 Sep Reply. Very good too much useful were for me thanks a lot sir.
Adewale Ayodele 15 Sep Reply. This is highly educative. I marvel at some of the designs I see in books and online that use only the most simple forms. They were just meant to be examples of different shapes. An arrow usually represents direction.
Art is absolutely one of the most loved things to do when we were children. However, little did we know its meaning was and how it would navigate so may wonderful things we know and see? I am convinced that lines are important especially when we all use symbols to communicate. A sociologist is the first one to tell anyone that symbols a universal conversation. Did the meaning even matter when we were kids?
I agree lines are an important of visual communication and good to understand so we can better communicate with those viewing our designs.
Thanks nilaxi. It should be ready in a few weeks. It is good things you have this site its really help me in motivating my students in line sketching. I am an art teacher and was wandering to know about the lines and their feelings. I must say thank you a lot for providing a precised form of knowledge about lines.
I must wish to see your knowledge regarding the colours as well. I have been attracted to and a fan of pen and ink drawing, and the use of lines for cross-hatching, to visualize textures, shading, depth, and other elements of a 3 dimensional object in a 2 dimensional drawing.
My dad was a classic Walt Disney animator and I grew up in a Disney family. Some of my teenage favorites were R. I am currently working on designing a Mojave Desert southern California design elements set of symbols and stylized art that reflects life here in my SoCal Mojave desert. Hsve to work on something when I retire after this school year. Thanks for the good information and food for thought and visualizing. I found this such an interesting article and valuable to me, I am a mature student 47 studying fine arts degree, I shall be referring to to this explanation within my module.
I am a Pre-Technical skills teacher who always use lines in presentations. The article is very informative and educative. I really appreciate the knowledge acquired. Thank you. Thanks David. And in that situation even lines seem more suited to the overall effect because everything is precise. Would you agree that in that case an even line can be better suited to the overall look?
Your email address will not be published. The Grammar of Lines A line is a dot out for a walk. Types of lines There are several types of lines defined by their use. Contour lines are used to define edges. The create boundaries around or inside an object. Most lines you encounter are contour lines. Painters looking to create a three-dimensional effect often use contour line in tandem with light and dark values and perspectivally accurate renderings.
The French Romantic painter Ingres is considered a master of contour line Ingres is sometimes also considered Neoclassical--but most consider that an inaccurate designation. Evenly rendered curved lines like arcs and sections of perfect circles are geometric. Many consider balanced and geometric shapes to represent rationality and the intellectual mind.
Neoclassical painters, who celebrated the ideas and aesthetics of the ancient Greeks, as well as knowledge and reason, often carefully composed their paintings according to geometric shapes. Many artists of the 20th century used organic curved lines to create ambiguous and abstract shapes. They can be body parts, stars in the universe, or microscopic cells.
There are four types of lines : horizontal line , vertical line , perpendicular, and parallel lines. Bernardine Velly Pundit. What are the elements of shape? Shape An element of art that is two-dimensional, flat, or limited to height and width. Form may also be free flowing. Jianhai Cahen Pundit. What type of line is used to show movement? In comics, motion lines also known as movement lines , action lines , speed lines , hites or zip ribbons are the abstract lines that appear behind a moving object or person, parallel to its direction of movement , to make it appear as if it is moving quickly.
Yassim El Kaddouri Teacher. What type of line gives a sense of movement? Diagonal lines also create a strong feel, but indicate a sense of energy or motion. Enol Anidos Supporter. What are a lines? An arterial line also art- line or a- line is a thin catheter inserted into an artery.
It is most commonly used in intensive care medicine and anesthesia to monitor blood pressure directly and in real-time rather than by intermittent and indirect measurement and to obtain samples for arterial blood gas analysis. Oiartza Tseboev Supporter. What mood do straight lines have? Horizontal lines generally create relaxation or a calming mood , they tend to be quiet and subtle whereas vertical lines are more imposing and powerful.
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