During our drawing lessons we produce life drawings each week learning different drawing techniques throughout. Our first lesson consisted of line drawings; one simple in lines, the second using only straight lines and the third using the continuous line technique. After three quick sketches to get us back into the swing of life drawing, we then had the remainder of the lesson to create one or more large scale drawings using one of the line techniques we had just learnt. I produced two large scale drawings one using straight lines and the other using continuous lines.
(Untitled, all three techniques, graphite pencil on A1)
(Untitled, continuous Line, graphite on A1)
(Untitled, straight Lines, graphite on A1)
The one I most enjoyed was continuous line. In my opinion think that this allows you to create a more expressive drawing giving the image energy as you are applying a more gestural drawing technique.
