Implied Lines

         In this image of flowers, leaves, and a butterfly; one can also see a woman's face. This is because of the implied lines the artist put in it. The two leaves on the top create her eyebrow and eye, the butterfly is her nose, and the flower is her lips. The negative space emphasizes the face, and makes you do a double take because at first it only looks like a face.

-Hanzala Jamil

Lines

This is a sketch of a fist. It uses contour lines and implied lines to form the fist and to show the detail between the fingers. It also uses the lines to show the creases in the hand helping the sketch to appear to have depth as well.

Waterfall

This work by MC Escher shows how lines can play with your mind. The way they are arranged gives an illusion and you can't tell where the waterfall begins and ends. The pillars in the picture are vertical while the flow of the waterfall is horizontal. There also many geometric shapes in this image which give it depth and show space.

Lines: M.C. Escher

This was a lithograph by M.C. Escher without a title in 1956. There are lines everywhere in this work. There are directional lines that make a viewer follow the work in a certain way. There are lines that are the edges to shapes. There are lines used to make some geometric shapes, such as circles, squares, etc. There are also actual likes that make the buildings, parts of the ship, etc.

-Tara

"Good Dog!"

The drawing i chose is actually three drawings in one.  This shows the process of the work of art using lines. You can easily see the dog's facial proportions according the artist and how he/she completed the contour drawing.  The dog's fur looks extremely realistic because of the use of lines. Then, the artist added texture to the dogs face with cross hatching. Overall, I enjoyed viewing this piece of art because I have very little artistic ability. I am not very good at looking at a final piece of art and determining how it came about. Yet, this artwork allowed me to understand the process of how it came about.

Lines

Lines are vital to any painting, especially one of a city night. This pictures uses lines to recreate a busy night in New York City, not only are the lines used to create buildings and bridges but also the lights on in each of the buildings to give it the busy night effect. The buildings are 3 dimensional along with the bridge and are reflected perfectly in the water. The picture is not a complex one of N.Y. but its use of lines is great.

The Magic of Lines

I chose this picture to show an example of how lines can be used. The lines in the wheel bring your focus to the center of the photo. It simply draws you into the bike. The outer rims of the wheels are the contour lines. They are completely circular and the pole connecting both of them is an example of a curved line. The darkness of the shading allows you to see this picture in 3 dimensions. I though that this work of art was simple yet very interesting.
-Michelle Ketcham

Contour Lines

 This drawing by Tornwing is an exceptional demonstration of use of lines. This entire drawing is made of contour lines of different thickness, darkness, and shape that creates a beautiful drawing when put together. The fact that there is nothing else besides lines put together in this drawing is very interesting because there is no color or anything to make the drawing stand out, yet it is still very good. The lines on the shoes especially give a certain look to them because they are not touching and there is white in between all of them. This gives an interesting look that shows a certain originality that i believe the artist was searching for when they created this drawing. And the fact that the drawing is of a pair of converses I feel as though it helps the viewer relate to the drawing which is a bonus.

Lines, lines, and more lines

The artist Heike Weber displays the use, and power of lines in her installation artwork. by using a permanent marker she draws all over a plain room, covering it from floor to ceiling. In this piece, titled "Utopia" she has used only contour lines to create an awe-inspiring piece of art. This example displays the importance of line and how it can be used to really define a piece. 

Focus on Line: Woman with a Parasol

Woman with a Parasol is an oil painting by Claude Monet.

Monet used contour lines in the distinct geometric shape of a  large triangle in painting the woman (his wife) and a smaller triangle in the image of his son. The parasol's underside is also made up of triangles in a circular fashion. These lines are darker for the shadowing effect. The contour lines of her dress are dark, drawn diagonally to show the shadowing of the parasol from the sun overhead. Short vertical lines make up the grassy area below her. The soft, cool colors used for the clothing of the woman blends with the negative space of the sky behind her. There is an additional patch of yellow on the arm of the woman, also in the shape of a triangle.

Eileen

Lines, Lines and More Lines

This painting is created by Piet Mondrian, who utilizes lines and shapes in all of his abstract pieces. This painting is made up of nothing but parallel lines from horizontal and vertical to make all of the shapes, squares and rectangles. A majority of the shapes are created using the negative space, or the white background. Only six of the shapes are filled with primary colors. But the bottom shapes, (the three blue rectangles and the small red rectangle to the bottom right corner) have two edges on each side of the shapes, since these shapes are created only by the paint itself.

Lines

This is a photograph taken from America's next top model Season 6. The picture  shows a contour line that is slightly curved from the model's head down to her legs. The eyes naturally follow the curve of the model's body in the form of a line. This photo is a representation of Snow White and the poisonous apple that she is going to bite. The idea of this photograph is special because it is representational of a fictional story. At the same time, the eyes are smoothly drawn to this picture to follow the model's body carefully while examining this piece. It is very interesting to see how much thought and art is put into modeling photographs.

line

This is a drawing done by an aspiring artist I found on an art website I frequently visit. The title of this is "Beauty" and she is trying to portray how we kill ourselves for the chance to be what society considers beautiful. It was done with pen and ink and she uses lots of different types of lines. The tiles in the back are done with stippling to show the dirt and shadow and her hair is done in the same way but she made the dots closer together to make it darer. The figure is done with hatching, getting closer together to show the shadows.

-Molly

lines

 In this painting, the artists used alot of verticle and horizontal lines. He uses horizontal lines to represent the sky and what looks like and island, and some of the ocean. Vertical lines are used on the walkway, along with the mans shirt, and some of the ocean.  The mans face contains contour lines.He creatively uses the lines to represent a darker painting filled with different textures.

This is a marker drawing by Todd Doney of one of his students. In this illustration he utilized a messy cross hatching style to shade it and create depth. There are no colors in this piece, it is simply a black and white picture. The negative space is used in the picture both the background and to show brighter things on the actual face such as the glasses and the skin of the person. Although it is a marker drawing there is no outline, but there is an edge created by the shading on the face.

Lines In Baseball

Even though they might not be visible, lines can always be found within paintings. The image I chose is the perfect example of this. There are no drawn out lines, but there are many inside the picture. The 2 men near the 3rd base bag make a triangle with their body positions. The lines are diagnals which most commonly show action, which in this case is true. Also there is a horizon by the bleachers of where the sky meets the stadium wall. The lines in this painting are NOT actual. They can be considered implied creating implied shapes in the case of the men making the triangle. The horizon is an example of direction lines. By seeing this line you can see that the ground ends and now the sky is starting.You can also see the edges of the men in this painting. Great painting to analyze because the lines aren't obvious and it gets you thinking.

Cross hatching in action

I chose this video to post because I thought it was really interesting how you can see the actual cross hatching and line process being completed. Obviously, the main use of line in this piece was cross hatching which was done so carefully and meticulously. With the contrast of dark and light the artist did with the cross hatching, the forms have more depth and look more realistic. The way the lines towards the bottom are drawn diagonally, your eye is directed from the top left and down to the bottom right, across the piece. I'm not entirely sure what this drawing is of but I found it interesting and a good example of line. 

-Leah 

John Lennon - Cross-hatched

This picture here displays a face portrait of Beatle's member John Lennon, created using the line style of cross-hatching. Cross-hatching is when parallel lines are intersected like a checkerboard to create images. Cross-hatching can also be used to create shading and value in a portrait, as you can see at the bottom  right of the picture around the mouth area, where the area is darker.The cross-hatching used in this piece also seems to be done in a wild way. This is a very unique and interesting style of art to look at and take in.

-Alfonso Robles

The image of the cake, created by John Derry, is drawn using contour lines and hatching. You can tell he used contour lines because the actual picture is drawn, and and it is an outlined picture. He also used hatching to create the shadows of the cake on the outside and the inside. The picture doesn't really have implied lines because the artist drew everything that needed to be seen, he didn't leave the viewer to fill in any parts of the image with their mind. The artist did use the value scale because you can see he made areas darker by hatching and most of the image was left alone and was very light.
-Rose Migliara

We've forgotten the cheese Gromit!

Wallace and Gromit is a classic cartoon created by Nick Park and begins as a simple sketch like this one.  Line is being used to draw the viewer’s eye from all edges of the sketch to the main point at the train crossing.  Perpendicular lines keep the eye moving around the entire sketch.  Hatching is used in the background and in the shading of areas like the train; there is also use of cross hatching in the chair and the dog's ears.  Also with the use of hatching, this creates different shades and values which adds dimension to the sketch.

Emily