DIFFERENT LINES Many years ago

Digital Drawing       2020

Many years ago I took a drawing course at a local college. The instructor was a chap named Bob Paterson. He was the printmaking instructor at the college. Much of the course dealt with the usual, drawing cubes, still life objects, and from time to time a life model. One night, the last night I believe, Bob challenged the class asking how many different lines could you make with a simple graphite pencil. Of course everyone replied things like a straight line, a circular line, and so on, the obvious, and then we stopped guessing. At that point Bob took up the pencil and by varying the pencil's pressure and angle proceeded to make interesting marks and lines. I've never forgotten that lesson, the last lesson from Bob, followed by slide presentation of Van Gogh's sketches and drawings. Long story short, Bob is no longer, his spirit is somewheres north of Wawa, ON. sketching the landscape that he loved so much....at least that's what I like to think.....

Examples of different lines.

This started out as just a lot of scribbling on the back of a piece of paper. To pass the time I made the scribbles into a bit of a landscape. It turned out, I believe, an example of the use of different lines to produce something a bit dynamic.

The following images are examples of jus how lines of differing strengths can make something somewhat dynamic.