This art guide is very in depth, and it shows you step by step on how to see artistry. You won't believe how much better I have gotten, and how much I've learned. It has filled that void that kept me uptight all day, walking around with a mad look on my face. It is a stress reliever for guys like me behind bars.
Preview the content in this guide
We've included the first few sections as a preview of the content in Line Art For Self Expression. Enjoy!
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- My Story
- Line Weight
- Hands
- Feet
- Faces
- Figures
- Self Expression and Stylization Through Art
Introduction
Line art and gesture drawing techniques capture a moment in life: motion, movement, a feeling. They are quick, messy, gritty, and in that they become graceful and fluid. They make you go to a briefly frozen moment in time. Line art is a safe way to look back in time and find a safe space to let your feelings reign. It is also a way to be alive in the moment. You can drown out all the outside noise and just be — you, your pencil, your paper.
Line and gesture drawing is not meant to be perfect. Quite the opposite: imperfection is encouraged. The focus is not on finishing a work of art, ready for critique and sale. The purpose is to explore the brief moment, and often realistic moments in life are not perfect. They are real and raw. This style gives you freedom and encouragement to make mistakes, let go, and move on to the next moment. My primary goal with this chapter is to encourage each artist to just dive in and draw.
We’ll focus on human subjects in this chapter. We will be studying the face, hands, feet, and the body, along with the language and feeling that each displays. Every artist, experienced or not, can create a line drawing that is powerful, refreshing, and raw with emotion.