The document discusses different types of line used in drawing, including simple, contour, parallel, cross-hatching, stippling, scribble, and pattern lines. It provides examples of artists who employed various line techniques, such as Rembrandt's use of line quality to depict light, dark, and thickness. The document also outlines procedures for using line, such as starting with a light line and building up tones gradually to the darkest areas. Different pens, inks, and brushes are recommended for line drawing.

1. Pen and Ink
Variety of Line
Glenn Hirsch, Instructor

2. Variety of
Line

3. parallel, curving (directional)
short dashes
cross-hatched
loose wandering (jagged)

4. People have been drawing for 30,000 years.
Relaxed and fluid line, fast & slow, thick & think, light & dark.

5. Cave drawings at the recently discovered Chauvet Cave (32,000 B.C.)

6. Line in one long, fluid, graceful motion.

7. Variety of line ….Light to dark … Fast to slow …Thick to thin
Rembrandt

8. Line in
fluid,
graceful
motion…
Light to
dark
Fast to
slow
Thick to
thin
Leonardo

9. Line in
fluid,
graceful
motion…
Light to
dark
Fast to
slow
Thick to
thin
Guercino

10. Fluid line in
combination with
brush.
Rico LeBrun

11. Seven Kinds of Line
1. Simple Line
2. Contour Line
3. Parallel Line
4. Cross Hatching
5. Stippling (dots)
6. Scribble Line
7. Pattern

12. 1.
Simple

13. Simple
line in
one long,
fluid,
graceful
motion…t
hat
changes
thickness,
value and
speed as
it goes

14. 2. Contour

15. Durer

16. Giacometti

17. Wyeth

18. Pamela Lanza

19. Glenn Hirsch

20. 3. Parallel
Line

22. Rubens

24. 4. Cross
Hatching

27. Cross
hatching
to create
built-up
form
Adam Hirsch

28. Almost like painting, building up varieties of tone.
Picasso

29. Cross hatching to creates rhythm! Picasso

30. Short feathery strokes, cross-hatching

31. 5. Stippling

32. stippling

35. 6. Scribble
and sketchy

37. Claude
Lorraine

38. 7. Pattern

39. Van Gogh

40. Van Gogh

41. Van Gogh

43. Procedure
Work from
Light to Dark

44. Start with a light
line, then fill it in
gradually, leaving
the darks for the
very last.
Ra;phael

45. Start with a light
line, then fill it in
gradually, leaving
the darks for the
very last.
Leonardo

46. Searching
line, draw
and
redraw
until you
find the
shape
you’re
searching
for
Leonardo

47. Blind Contour

48. BLIND CONTOUR means drawing without
looking at the paper

49. Blind contour
line for variety,
surprise and
energy!

50. Fluid
Abstraction
with Ink

51. Glenn Hirsch

53. Glenn Hirsch

54. Glenn Hirsch

56. Ink, Pen and Brush

57. Waterproof, it’s
fixed, you can
paint over it
without dissolving
it.
Not waterproof,
can be dissolved
and melted.

61. Recommended but not
required:
The Pen and Ink Book
by Jos. A. Smith