Using Lines in Art

Video Transcript

"Hi there everybody. My name is Lars Erik Robinson. My company is Lars Arts: All Around Art-tainment is my slogan. Today I thought we'd talk about how to use line in art. And if you - a lot of people know me by my line work and my quality of my lines. Here's a piece that I did for a realtor for Happy Realtor Company, that's her name, and I tried to create very happy lines, very happiness with her, and it was a trick because of references I use was sometimes difficult, but if you could tell here, if you close in on this, there's a lot of thin and thicker lines for example right here, goes from thin and goes to thicker by her nose. And then by her mouth I tried to create thicker lines when it gets to the shadow, and then thinner when it gets into the light. So basically how you create lines in art, is you go from thin, the side of her face for example, to thick. Thin and then it gets darker. That's one way to create lines in art. There's also different pens that you can use. If we're doing the same kind of line, this has the same - it doesn't go from thin to thicker. It's not brush style. And when you use this kind of pen, you have to use cross hatching most of the time, so if you create an eye right here, cross hatching is very important on that. And that's what it is when you go back and forth like that. And even create a darker line there, go over it again, and that creates the effect. Now, you don't have to do that that much when you have a brush pen because you can create that, that shadow just by pressing down and going lighter. See? It already kind of looks like it's darker 'cause the line work is darker there. It gives an impression that it's dark. So hope that it gives you a little bit more understanding how to use the lines in art. Thank you so much."