CHAPTER THREELINES AND POINTS
Now that we’ve reviewed some common drawings and broken them apart into their basic shape elements, or building blocks, we’re going to go a level deeper as metephorically illustrated in Figure 3.1.
Let's examine the lines and points we use to draw these shapes, be mindful of how these marks are constructed can make or break a drawing. Believe it or not, the very essence of your ideas and how they're perceived by your colleagues can be held within these marks.
TELLING STORIES WITH LINES
Simple lines can be used to tell a rich story, and the way in which they're drawn can communicate a lot of information. Let's take a look at the drawing by Vincent Van Gogh in Figure 3.2.
Source: Die Brücke von Arles, Vincent Willem Van Gogh
When we first look at this image, we can see that he obviously used lines to draw the structural elements in the composition. This includes outlines of the stones and the wooden beams that make up the drawbridge. For this, he used straight lines. It's when we take a closer look at this drawing that we notice the more interesting applications of lines.
Notice how Van Gogh uses lines to represent the grass on the right river bank (Figure 3.3). The direction of the line implies the growth of the grass. ...
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