Silhouette Ink Drawing

Contour Line Drawings Reflection

In my contour drawings, I think that I was able to pretty thoroughly explore the expressive qualities of line. Especially in my ink and water drawing, I tried to experiment with the thinness/thickness of my lines, as well as the darkness/lightness of the lines. I tried to put emphasis on lines that stood out to me when I looked at the object––especially shadows. I am pretty happy with the effect that this technique had on the end result of my drawing, because it made the oil can look more realistic and highlighted the parts of it that were highlighted in real life when I looked at the actual object itself. I felt really comfortable with the ink and water drawing, because I liked how it was pretty easy to manipulate the line in so many different ways with the brush I was using. This made it easier to create a drawing that really accurately represented the object. I also enjoyed that I had a lot of freedom to express the objects however I wanted, in order to convey a certain feeling or attitude to the viewer. I think that one of my strengths as a representational artist is my line quality, because I tried to put a lot of effort into how my lines came across on the paper, in order to understand exactly how a viewer might perceive my drawings.