Line is the backbone of drawing and drawing is the backbone of painting. But what is line? What is the function of a thing that flows and squiggles and lives and dies and even walks and cries? FIRSTLY, a line must have life!! VIVA LE LINE! Nothing kills a drawing faster than a dead and mechanical line! Lines come from within in you, they are drawn directly from your chi (or life) I have noticed that artists who have the personality of lawn furniture have dead and mechanical lines and that fiery people have fiery lines. Be careful, a too fiery line can burn itself out like a star and fall like icarus into the sea of over-ambition! Overworked lines are in danger of sewing their fingers together in the sweatshop of art and nothing is achieved--No shoes are made!
THE RULES OF LINE:
1) HAVE THE RIGHT HEROES!
An artist is only as good as your heores and if you prefer the monkees to the beatles you will always be second rate just as if you prefer- modern-moma- post contemporary isms to the old masters you will only be as good as as a third rate draftsman. Led Zeppelin was schooled on the blues and the next generation only fed on zeppelin so it was watered down by half and so on and so on..You cannot beat the old masters, understand that. Lets begin at the start...
The greatest drafts man of all time, Raphael. I will rate him according the gardega scale of line genius.
gardega rating scale:
Quality of line 10
correctness of drawing/ anatomy 10
liveliness of line/ shading 10
character 10
humanity 11
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