Line as tone presentation

What dictates line and mark making?

Pressure, stroke, direction and gesture

Ways to explore this is to feel the paper surface through your drawing tool. Instil feeling into your hand, altering pressure within the stroke.

Avoid feathering or going back over existing lines. Commit to drawing, and if it's rubbish, simply draw it again.

Look ahead on the page- try and visualise the shape and direction of your line.

What dictates line drawing?

Synchronise hand and eye

Don't let your hand move faster than your eyes. As you scan your reference information you are processing information all the time within short term memory than recalling it through your hand.

It is crucial to draw multiples of the same subject matter and to maintain a constant and modulating process of reflection.

Tom Gauld

Example of sketching techniques