I’m confused. Using just lines, how else would you depict thick or thin besides the distance between the lines? The technique is called drawing. Unless I’m completely misunderstanding what you are asking.
I think (just guessing) what the OP is asking for, is the term(s) one would use to search for such a video on youtube? How would you find such a tutorial on the interwebs? What is the technique s/he wants to learn called?
I didn’t find any such terms. But I did find a lot of free online help.
“How to line draw” gave me plenty of hits.
Shading? Hashing/hatching? Contour grid?
Good example, it’s a lovely drawing and a great logo.
I merged the two essentially identical OPs together.
Are you talking about something like classical artist William Hogarth’s Line of Beauty?
William Hogarth (1697-1764) – noted British artist and caricaturist whose series of painting and engravings often “told a story”. Often pretty bawdy.
Here’s his Line of Beauty – basically the creative use of an ogee curve rather than straight lines or simple arcs, meant to present s sense of tangible reality to his works of art.
That’s exactly what Amber13 is asking.
But we assume it can’t be that simple of a question, so we’re all talking about the style of the lines.
I, as a retired Professor Of ‘Drawring’, can’t wrap my mind around why this would even be a question. (Or how Rob Liefeld ever got a job…)
But, yes, Amber, you’d draw a thick leg with the outlines farther apart, a thin leg would have them closer together.
Given her posts, this is all wild-ass guessing, but I think she’s talking about shading with contour lines. As an extreme example, see this hand drawing. Would you draw those contours closer together for a thin leg and farther apart for a wide leg?
I do speak English, BTW. I’m sorry if I reused those words, only foreign users who don’t speak English the first time would reused words.
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Yeah, seeing the second OP, I’m now thinking it must be. I suspect that Amber is hitting a foreign language site to prevent being caught. Either that, or Amber is an AI trying to ask a question.
well drawing is art medium, I know what it is. I what technique is called is when lines are farther apart and closer apart drawing thin and wide legs but not weight gain wide.
I’m not AI, I’m a human, BTW, I won’t ask questions like that again.
I don’t mean to be insulting, I’m sorry if it came across that way. It just a very confusing use of language, and we are trying to puzzle it out.
Can you give us a link to an example of what you mean? We are all still guessing.
Again, if what you want is a term or word for this it’s gonna be difficult to say.
It’s all so relative…
Amber, are you just asking about ‘proportion’? This is a widely examined subject in line drawing that covers everything from facial proportions to the proportions of limbs. It starts with drawing straight line grid that is used to space the drawn lines. The grid can be resized for different proportions. Please look through the following video to see if you can find what you are looking for. If you search on “LINE DRAWING BODY PROPORTIONS” you will get numerous sites and references covering this subject.
Is it just basically called “drawing to scale”? You are representing the actual object, real or imagined, by making the ratios of the distances between lines the same as the edges or features of the object.
I think it would help the interactions here if you could provide a bit of background so people can understand where you’re coming from.
If you want to, that is. No pressure, but I mean one of your threads was basically ‘why can’t people see with their eyes shut?’ - surely you realise that the puzzlement caused by such a question is likely to overwhelm any actual discussion.
I parsed the question the same as it was earlier. IOW, it’s similar to asking why fat people’s legs are wider than thin people’s legs. A question with such an obviously self-evident answer that the typical reader assumes it must be in regard to something else.