Notion is a design studio based in New Zealand, run by Ken the one line illustrator. With an overwhelming amount of 1189 drawings (and counting) on Instagram this one line artist has been around for a while and has been a great inspiration for many others. Flowsofly in an interview with WE ARE MORTALSĪs the work ranges from very rough to quite smooth, very complex to fairly simple, just the line or also including fills - the work is mainly recognizable by its erotic scenes. The pen sketches are just a quick way of expressing these concepts, giving a viewer enough to see it but not everything, not the whole picture.”
Easy contour drawings of objects movie#
So I also work this way now when I usually see a photo or a movie scene or read something and then want to deconstruct that, interpret that, explore the idea, explore how I see it… and then the craft is more the necessity, and something that I had to get reasonably ok at, but still I enjoy the conceptual part of the work a lot more. “I get bored very easily and can’t be bothered with figuring out details, but instead the process to get to the idea is the exciting thing for me.
But it’s always within the same theme: erotica. The style of this artist is quite divers. This is the case with all of the following examples, except the last one. The line does not connect the beginning with the end, leaving the image open. The line keeps the exact same thickness throughout the whole piece and flows in both sharp corners, as well as smooth curves. Every element must have its sense, its utility, its intrinsic beauty.”ĭFT’s style is minimal and straight forward. But, it’s also very demanding as minimalism requests a certain level of perfection. It’s a maturation process that can be painful as it consists of letting go, giving up. “During our process, we go through phases that are visually rich and complex before removing what’s not substantive. They deconstruct complex imagery into two-dimensional minimalist art, focusing on what creates a subject’s core identity. I think they are one of the most well known one line artists that are active today, as they collaborated with big brands such as Adidas, Nike, Nissan, Hermès and Adobe. The first three drawings are student work then examples after the student work are artists from multiple centuries ago:ĭrawing of hand using ink or graphite on 18x24 drawing paper from bond sketch padĪssignment source: Drawing Structure and Vision / Fritz Drury & Joanne Stryker - p.First of all the work of the French artist duo ‘ Differantly’, in short DFT. Then try to connect them into longer bands.Įxperiment with different levels of looseness or tightly connected cross contour.īefore attempting to draw you hand, practice drawing a round ball.Try to imply the curvature of the ball as you apply your contour hatching marks, turning the ball back at its edges with a greater density of strokes.
In the palm or back of the hand, use short strokes laying on the surface of the bumps and depressions of the "skin" of the form in your drawing. Then work into the fingers using cross contour spanning the width of the form. Layering cross-contour strokes in different directions is sometimes called cross hatching.Īfter laying out the hand position with a few simple lines, start by defining each joint of the fingers as a form bounded by elliptical edges. It can be useful to mix and overlap cross contours, to let them fade in and out of application, or to use them in a "broken" manner. There are many strategies for applying cross contour to the surface of forms. Although cross contour on rectangular surfaces can be useful, the most prevalent form of this technique involves curved contours to describe rounded organic form. In a sense, you could think of cross contour as the multiple profiles of the form actually drawn onto its skin.
Cross contour brings elliptical curves within the boundaries of form to map the surface.Ĭross contour can be applied in one direction or in any mix of directions as long as the mark follows the surface of the form.Ĭross-hatching refers to a softer, woven application often used to build up tonal areas of shadow.Ĭross contour uses line to map the curved surface of depicted forms in a drawing, but instead of dealing with the profile of the form, it moves within the outer boundaries and maps the surface facing the viewer.