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The Beauty of Line – Part 1: A Portrait of Angelo Verga
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The hairline is now sketched in with straight, architectonic lines thus framing the face. The features can now be carefully rendered.
With a linear drawing thought has to be given to what elements should advance forward and what should recede. In the face the nose is the most forward feature and its frontal part (the alar and wings) should be treated with a heavier line, but this needs to be balanced against the collar and sweater-vest. The interstice of the mouth, which is the opening, is a little further forward than the eyes and, as such, should be slightly heavier. But, again, not as heavily drawn as the frontal part of the nose. The same goes for the ear and the far side of the face.
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Like tonal modeling you have to be careful not to exaggerate; you do not want the lines of the nose to be so heavy that they protrude and distort the spatial illusion, nor do you want to render the back of the head so lightly that it recedes onto the far horizon.
Line drawings are also wonderful venues for expression. The realist line drawing draws its refined serpentine elegance from a delicately concordant confluence of touch and a concise understanding of form and rhythm.
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