![]() Lines that are sketchy and unsure express uncertainty and weakness, and are generally less pleasing. They swoop, slash, scar, skip, skid, stutter, sing, whisper, drip, bleed, splash across the surface. ![]() Lines can remain a constant thickness (descriptive, analytical, objective, showing little of the action used to create them) or vary in thickness along their length (flowing, calligraphic, lyrical, showing emphasis and something of the gesture used to make them).Įxpressive, gestural lines shout the force, speed and emotion put into their making. Lines can be hard, sharp, straight, geometric they can be organic, smooth, soft, flowing, loopy, wavy. ![]() Lines can be categorized as horizontal, vertical, diagonal, curved, and zigzag. Lines are used to outline (diagrammatic or contour lines), create shading and show form (structural lines, hatching and cross-hatching), decorate, express emotion, and direct the viewer's eye. A continuous mark made on a surface by a moving point it may be flat (pencil line) or three-dimensional (a rod, groove, ridge, etc.) Line may be explicit - a line painted along the edge of the road - or implied by the edge of a shape or form. ![]()
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