Experimenting With Line Quality

I tested out different media and different ways of using each media to play around with how the quality of line can effect the feel of an image. 

Circles

Zig Zags

'Straight' Lines

Squares

 

I also did several portraits experimenting with the various techniques / media I'd tried out. 

Ink, Wrong End Of Brush.

Ink, Thick Brush.

The above two images were my favourite from the set. They both use ink, which is the media I currently enjoy working with the most due to its fluidity and the fact I usually find I make looser more expressive drawings with it. Using the wrong end of the brush created lines which tapered dramatically. As a result the drawing, I feel, retains a sweeping, graceful feel. I found using a thicker brush with ink to be a very cathartic way of drawing and I enjoy the tonal variety that occurs naturally as the ink is dragged across the page in bold lines. Overall I feel these two drawings are my favourite from the set because they are both very simplistic and there is a sense of movement in the strokes which reveals, and traps within the completed drawing, the gestures that created them.   .