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Some artists or all, i don't know, use lines instead of shading. You propably know what i mean.
So i wonder who this works ? I mean, the lines seem to draw the shape of a bone or a muscle.

But i can't do this so that it looks "right".
Sounds stupid, but where to learn ?

Thank you...

[Ian Jones]

Hi,

When you are talking about lines, well there is a whole lifetime of study there. I am geussing that you can draw things accurately, like putting the lines in the right place. Is it line shading that you are talking about? instead of using a pencil to shade blacks and greys... you are talking about using just a black pen?

The idea with a pencil is that you can press it on the paper to achieve different tonal marks. Well that's obvious... but it relates to your question about line shading, which uses just a pen that cannot produce greys like a pencil can. So the idea with line shading is that you try and simulate those tonal ranges that a pencil can achieve. Basically you just vary line spacing and line thickness. For light areas you would draw thin lines with lots of space imbetween them. For dark areas you would draw thick lines that are close together. When you view it from a distance the black pen marks and the white space imbetween will blend to produce a particular light or dark. So by controlling the line thickness and density to each other, you can control the tonal value of an area.

I hope you understood that. I didn't exactly write it very well...

[Ian Jones]

Oh I forgot to mention that when you draw these shading lines you should follow the form of the object you are rendering. So if you are shading a ball your shading lines should be curved to the shape of the ball. This apply's to any shape really, if you were shading a flat surface, the lines would follow its form.

Hope that helps.

[Ian Jones]

One other thing.. hehe

I would suggest that aswell as trying to shade areas yourself with that technique, that you also go back and look at the pictures you talk about where you can see the shape of bone and muscle etc. If you study the pictures keeping in mind what I just said, then you will understand it a lot more.

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I will study this technic by the original.
I guess it's like as by all the other stuff you want to learn. "Simple" draw and learn.

Thank you for answering