From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters
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Line weight
From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters
Line weight
- I've said several times already that we're drawing volumes not lines, and one way to make your drawing look like it has volume is to have a tapered line. Now at the top we can see a very graphical stylized version of this. It's like something that you would do in Adobe Illustrator or some other vector illustration program. Many times your drawings will end up cleaned up with this kind of a tool, so this is a good thing to remember if you're a digital artist, that you can actually work with this kind of style. At the bottom side of the screen, you can see a more pencil-like stroke, and this is a like a super close up version of what your pencil stroke should look like if you begin to apply this technique. So here you can see a very closeup of a pencil drawing and the pencil line texture is obviously jaggy, and this is pretty much what you would see if you did a drawing on paper and zoomed it up to this kind of size. Let's see where the heavy line weight comes in and you can probably…
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Line of action/reversals5m 16s
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Silhouette and negative space7m 2s
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Counterpose/torque6m 34s
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Exaggeration5m 18s
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Squash and stretch: Understanding volume4m 52s
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Straight vs. curves and parallels11m 16s
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Breaks on curves4m 49s
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Vary shapes, asymmetry, and texture8m 47s
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Point of origin5m 59s
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Open and closed areas3m 1s
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Tangents2m 56s
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Materials and drag7m 42s
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Line weight3m 47s
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