![]() ![]() Artline 70 marker, size 1.4 – for the really thick outlines!.Pear design by Charuca Materials I Used This Week Here are a few examples I found, where outlines help to communicate the message of the artwork. Here is an example of multiple outlines from Charuca: Add more than one outline, if it helps tell the story. ![]() For example, I used Micron 0.4 for very thin lines, Tombow Brush Pen for medium thickness, and Artline 70 marker (like a Sharpe!) for really thick lines (use bleedproof paper with Artline 70, because it really goes through the paper). Make the outline thickness REALLY different.Select 2 or 3 thicknesses and use them consistently, instead of having a different thickness for every object.For example, in the cupcake drawing above I added a thicker outline below the frosting and right at the edge of the cupcake liner. You can add secondary (thiner) outlines inside the main subject to visually separate different sections.This is a way to create visual hierarchy in the drawing. The objects around the character have thiner outlines, and background elements are even thiner. Most simply, give a thicker outline to the main subject.It would take a lot more outlining to make this drawing really pop, but I just wanted to show an example of how an outline draws attention to the subject. Here is the same drawing with the cupcake outlined. It looks sweet, although you can’t really tell the main subject of the drawing. Here is a drawing I did of a kawaii cupcake. The outlines have to be selective to best tell the story of the drawing. You can’t just slap a fat outline around the character, as I’ve found out. You can use this effect to create depth in your drawings. This is called visual hierarchy.Īlso, thick lines make the object appear closer, while thin lines move the object farther away and into the background. Outlines help guide the eye around the artwork and tell us what is important. It’s already a very happy illustration, but having various outlines really makes it pop.īelow is my study of outlines for Week 6 of my drawing challenge to learn how to draw kawaii in 6 months. Same with this kawaii artwork on the right by Charuca. It make have looked tacky, but it sure did the job! It made me look. It was outlined 4 times!!! In various ways, one of them in neon colour. Sure enough, there was a blackboard with a doodle of a smiling banana milkshake. So I had to go back and look at the window display to see how this piece of communication entered my mind. I was walking by a cafe, and as I passed it I had a mental image of a delicious banana milkshake in my mind. A lot of it has to do with outlines, which help the picture literally pop off the page and into our head. I have spent the past week analysing how images get noticed. Why do some images grab our attention and others don’t? ![]()
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