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The document discusses various techniques for creating depth in compositions, such as using size, overlapping, contrast, and color. It also defines 'sensitive' line and outlines methods for achieving line sensitivity, which include variations in weight, tension, light, and spatial arrangement. Overall, it emphasizes the importance of responsiveness in line work and depth perception in art.
Green line sensitivity space
- 1. Creating Space In acomposition
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- 27. What Is Meantby “Sensitive” Line? SENSITIVE: Having the power of sensation; ready and delicate in response to outside influences; able to register minute changes or differences; degree of responsiveness to stimuli; having power of feeling; of such a nature as to be easily affected Line Variation and Sensitivity
- 29. Ways to ApproachLine Sensitivity 1. Weight and Tension in a Form 2. High and low points of a Form 3. The strength or force of an Edge 4. The spatial Sequence of forms 5. Degrees of importance
- 30. Ways to ApproachLine Sensitivity Weight and Tension in a Form
- 31. Ways to ApproachLine Sensitivity Light and Dark or the Illumination of a Form
- 32. Ways to ApproachLine Sensitivity High and Low Points in the Contours of a Form
- 33. Ways to ApproachLine Sensitivity Strength or Force of an Edge
- 35. Ways to ApproachLine Sensitivity The Spatial Sequence of Forms
- 36. Ways to ApproachLine Sensitivity Degrees of Importance
Editor's Notes
- #28 Sensitive line is sensitive in its description of and response to both inner and outer contours or edges of a form. If desired, sensitive line is able to register minute changes or differences found along the contours or edges of a form.
- #29 Sensitive line is responsive to both subtle and not-so-subtle activity found along the contours or edges of a form. Sensitive line has the power to convey a strong sense of volume, mass, form, weight, dimensionality, and feeling. Whether it addresses a particular form or exists independently, it can display various qualities—textured or smooth, dark or light, continuous or broken, curvilinear or rectilinear, heavy or delicate, thick or thin
- #31 Where forms meet another form, or where surfaces meet another surface, lines can be darker to suggest these junctures. Where weight is supported, a darker or heavier line can be used. The point or edge where one form rests on or presses against another form can be emphasized through a darker or heavier line
- #32 Edges bathed in shadow may be depicted with a darker, heavier line, and edges washed in light may be depicted with a lighter, more delicate line
- #33 High and Low Points in the Contours of a Form This process, very simply, suggests that as contours dip into or toward the major mass of a form (depressions), they theoretically move away from light and into shadow, and can be suggested through use of a darker or heavier line.
- #34 Most exterior edges, like the outermost edge of a bulb of garlic or the outermost edge of the human figure, are firm and definite. They are the result of a form meeting negative space. But other edges, typically found in the interior of a form, can range from firm to fairly gentle to extremely delicate, and the line work used to describe these edges can reflect this difference
- #35 This applies not only to the spatial relationships between various forms, but also to the spatial relationships found within a single form that is volumetric or three-dimensional. On a light drawing surface, darker lines advance or come forward and lighter lines recede or move back in space.
- #36 Using a full range of value in lines used to describe forms, one can suggest full volume and a clear separation between foreground, middle ground, and background
- #37 This method implies the development of focal points in a composition through greater development of line. Areas of greater or lesser importance are described to a greater or lesser degree through line, creating dominant passages in a composition, or focal points