Foundations of Drawing: A Practical Guide to Art History, Tools, Techniques, and Styles by Al Gury

Author:Al Gury [Gury, Al]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Potter/TenSpeed/Harmony
Published: 2017-06-13T04:00:00+00:00

Al Gury, Nude Study, 2012, charcoal and white pastel on laid cream charcoal paper, 30 × 24 inches (76.2 × 60.96 cm).

In Nude Study, I described the form of the figure with an organic, changing line, which varies from sharp to soft. Even though I added tones and white chalk to suggest shadows and lights in the figure’s form, it is the organic line quality that really creates and finishes it.

Broken Line

Broken line is the most variable of the line types. Unlike classic line, it is not continuous and shows a great range of variation. Broken line can also exhibit the greatest amount of individual personality. Energetic and creative, it is associated with more expressive and tonal forms of drawing. For example, the eighteenth-century French painter Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) used lines that could be described as “sketchy.” When viewed up close, you can see their stop-and-start quality, applied according to the texture of the subject. However when viewed from a distance, Watteau’s lines appear even. The twentieth-century Expressionist painter Willem de Kooning (1904–1997) used broken, variable lines in an aggressive way to create drawings that have both flat and spatial elements.

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