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yasashiiko — Tutorial: Line-Weights
Published: 2006-05-27 19:50:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 10877; Favourites: 152; Downloads: 401
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So I’m part of this club, .Its purpose is to help people in their art. And what is one of the best ways to help people? My beloved tutorials, of course! Plus our club founder and director asked all the mentors to contribute a tutorial if possible.
Now, I know I’m not the best artist, and thus was my dilemma. What could I contribute that hasn’t already been done to death? Then I remembered one of the very first lessons in my architecture drawing class: Line-Weights.
Line-Weights are very important to an architect because they provide a hierarchy within the drawing that expresses so much more than just the straights and curves of the lines and shapes being shown. I hope you see what I mean.
BTW, The drawing is very basic. I swear I can do better. It's just the essentials of perspective that I needed to get the point across. Plus I almost over used the pen-tool (hence some line mistakes) thinking that it would save me time in the end.
Hmm... actually, it did. 
Hope it helps someone out there.
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Comments: 51
Really like the tutorial, something I want to learn and this is going to help a lot, Thanks!
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My pleasure! I'm happy to help!
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That was actually really, really helpful. 
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You're very welcome! It was my pleasure.
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Actually, I was just thinking about this, and wondering if I was screwing up my drawing by altering the line weights badly/too much. Now I know what to check for. Danke!
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I will be looking to use this in my future endeavors.
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why thank you for the compliment.
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Thank you for this tutorial! It`s something I needed because I definately need to improve my inking. Good to know some basics about line-weight because I always mess around with it without knowing what I`m doing... 
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My pleasure! And thanks for the fav, too.
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What a wonderful tutorial. I'm suprised this doen't have more favs. I definately need to work on my lineart. It's easy to follow and is a great reference. Thank you for making this.
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Thank you and you're very welcome. I think your comic work is great! Maybe you don't even need to worry about lineart.
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Naaw there's always room for improvement for anyone. Thanks. XD
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I've only very recently started to think about how line-weights make a difference in drawings, so this is really helpful and informative for sure
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Thank you.
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This is right excellent! When I read this, I thought-Eh OmO I know what I did wrong now! ((which would be the flat imaging....))
Love it. Thank you so much for making this.
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You're very welcome! Glad I could provide a revelation.
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Thanks so much for taking the time to do this
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It was stewing in my head for a long time before it finally came out on the screen. I’m glad to hear that it’s easily understandable. Thanks!
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thank you *so* much. I've been having trouble with this in my own drawings.
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Hm...interresting, this might help me a bit in my inking training
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You're welcome... er... ink training?
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Well...I don't have any better word for it
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With the Photoshop pen tool uses I recommend this tutorial: Pen Tool Inking Tutorial .
It gave me a lot of good pointers.
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Oooooh, another tutorial to help me. *Level up!*
Yessss!! I'm now even better at inking 
Thank you so much
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You're welcome, fellow art student. 
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This was very helpful. I was wondering why my lineart looked so flat.
Thank you for making this, I'm sure it'll help me a lot!
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You're very welcome. Good luck with that!
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Alright, thanks! ^_^ Awesome tutorial, if I forgot to say that already!
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Line-weights are my BIGGEST problem area I think. I definately need to work on them more.
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My biggest problem... well I got a lot of them... is probably forshortening, right now. I'm so bothered by her arms. I had to change the girl in the drawing's hand size at least 3 times before I was okay with it.
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It was weird looking at my deviantwatch list and seeing both links to this. Thanks for making it, line weight is something I'm trying to work on. Faved and downloaded.
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Yes! Line weight is one of those things that I look at a picture and it's like, that's awesome... how did they do it? And I'd be left wondering.
This is awesome. Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom
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Oh no! You're making my ego bigger!
Thanks for saying so, though.
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Thanks for making this, I'll upload it to *da-mentors as soon as I get a chance.
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Now that I have done the uploading I can comment on the actual tutorial.
Very helpful. I noticed how you had a more important line where things overlap. There is also a drawing technique called selective emphasis And it is where you make certian parts of the line (such as when something changes direction or when something overlaps) darker and a bit thicker. If done well the drawing really pops. I love how you selected a great image for your example, at first I did think that the heart was printed on her shirt. Then I saw the difference and thought, "Duh! Now i get it!". Well done. Thanks for making this.
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The "contour line-weight" style that I use may be specific to architecture, I don't really know. All I know is that I learned it in arch. school and it's required for our drawings so everyone there is used to seeing it that way. But I like how it tells more of the story in a single drawing.
And you're welcome.
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