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Line Weight: when to vary it and why? 

Salgood Sam
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In my art class this is a question that comes up a lot. It's a key aspect of many linear illustration traditions including comics art, as well as older forms of art that inform them. A lot of artists starting out wonder about what to use it for and when. And it common for the unorganized, haphazard accidental use of it to give our work a less polished feeling.
That's not all good or bad, in my own work i like a bit of organic noise, messiness. That can in part come from some randomness in my line values. Sometimes I'm much more polished and clean. And part of that is making sure the reasons behind the line weights are very consistent and follow a specific set of style guides, rules. "If when, then this". but in a lot of my more personal or intimate work i relax that, to give it what i think is a bit more of an intimate feeling.
I attempt here to go over some the basic foundational reasoning behind what line weight can do, and how it impacts the work. Let me know in the comments what you think!
Also you'll find more examples of my own work, applying it in different ways here.
www.salgoodsam.com/illustratio...
In particular look at this examples for some very different approaches. Here, the contour line is very constant. it gives the hand a graphic frame, helping to pop it out of the white background.
www.salgoodsam.com/wp-content/...
Here i've used heavy raw brushy lines, to help give the figure a chunky but still expressive look
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This one is an illustration for a neurology science journal, so i used a very clean line, with a fair bit of variation for elegance.
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On this car, we have lost line highlights, finer lines in the distance for the front hood, and clean but brushy feeling to try to balance mechanical slick with a bit of warmth.
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you can check out more of my art instruction via this site.
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And please consider becoming a patron, it'll get you access to my comics, and for a few, even be a way to become a student!
/ salgood

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Комментарии : 42   
@SwarumtheForum
@SwarumtheForum 3 года назад
I'm very young, but I really needed this. THIS is what I've been missing.
@KeshArt
@KeshArt 9 лет назад
your videos are really informative.Thanks for making them.
@Salgood
@Salgood 9 лет назад
you're welcome! My pleasure.
@ovn_tamil
@ovn_tamil 3 года назад
Didn't expected you to be here, woah! 😯
@outbordered
@outbordered 3 года назад
Thanks mate! This is a really good explanation of what line weight could express. It helped me a lot.
@clessdesign8131
@clessdesign8131 3 месяца назад
thank you for the content, it was very helpful for me!
@lindanimated
@lindanimated 6 лет назад
Thank you so much for this video! I'm trying to improve on my line weight in illustration and this gave me some solid, actionable advice. :)
@theharshhack10
@theharshhack10 3 года назад
Thank u for the video :)
@jondblames3488
@jondblames3488 4 года назад
that fat mans belly, I will never forget this example at first I didn't get what you were trying to say with it, but i went back and watched carefully and it all clicked. Praise the belly I learned a lot from that.
@MidoriTheAwesome
@MidoriTheAwesome 6 лет назад
I love when he throws the pencil and it comes rolling back
@PengiChyan
@PengiChyan 8 лет назад
Ohh man yes. This tut is very much appreciated.
@TrinidadSuperman
@TrinidadSuperman 8 лет назад
great video!! line weight changes everything if done right. helped me out on something you'd think a college art student should have known by now lol thanks✌
@alicegriffin4375
@alicegriffin4375 2 года назад
Thank you - this is very helpful and helps me understand how to use line weight!
@cantrememberwhatimdoin
@cantrememberwhatimdoin 2 года назад
I had never heard of the distance thing, but it makes sense. Thanks!
@juliofalkenhagen
@juliofalkenhagen 9 лет назад
Hey Sam, many thabks for this tutorial !
@WanJae42
@WanJae42 4 года назад
SUPER useful! Thank you!
@GarrettRomain
@GarrettRomain 7 лет назад
Great insight, thanks!
@1Toonie
@1Toonie 6 лет назад
Good informative presentation Thanks
@trolleycaeser
@trolleycaeser 9 лет назад
thank you so much!
@deedraderemiens5957
@deedraderemiens5957 8 лет назад
Sooo helpful!!
@eshafernz885
@eshafernz885 3 года назад
Thank you so much it was very helpful 😊
@yarrow2119
@yarrow2119 7 лет назад
Does this mean you cannot use all of these techniques at the same time? Like, can you portray both the 'meatiness of the arm' and the light source's position in space on the same line?
@Salgood
@Salgood 7 лет назад
Oh i mix them up and i think people use them together often, it's not like a law or something that only one can be used.
@maddiebat8892
@maddiebat8892 8 лет назад
Really helpful!! thank you so much :3
@adrianpedraza8612
@adrianpedraza8612 4 года назад
BOEH im too high i cant't understand anything that's happening here
@ishaan9265
@ishaan9265 7 лет назад
Logged in just to like this video!! this video is the solution for a very recurring problem for me!!
@benjaminfrost6679
@benjaminfrost6679 8 лет назад
This was very helpful. Thank you.
@MissAngelsMakeup
@MissAngelsMakeup 5 лет назад
Thanks for the tips, can I ask what pen u used in this video?
@PengiChyan
@PengiChyan 8 лет назад
When you say the line should be varied in time with the curvature do you mean for example that there should be maybe a pattern to the thickness of the curve? Like at the apex of each curve it is thickest maybe?
@Salgood
@Salgood 8 лет назад
+Jodi Johnson more or less yes exactly, the point that is the thickest OR thinnest can vary, but it's doing something, so there should be a reason. For example, i will sometimes make the thinnest part where the light strikes it? That can be around the apex, or somewhere else. Putting the thickest part at the apex tends to give a nice enhancing effect to the curve, so many times I go with that if that's what I'm after. And of course sometimes the line weight will change a few times throughout the curve for a variety of possible reasons. The pattern in the end is part of the curation and design aspect of the drawing, so rather than a hard and flat rule for all curves, it pays to have general rules of thumb that are part of what informs your style, but also be open to modifying that when reasons in a specific drawing suggest it.
@generaltheory560
@generaltheory560 4 года назад
Wow
@marqosmarqos1201
@marqosmarqos1201 8 лет назад
Good stuff. Thanks.
@Salgood
@Salgood 8 лет назад
thanks!
@Salgood
@Salgood 8 лет назад
and, your welcome! :)
@andreaambrosini9711
@andreaambrosini9711 8 лет назад
Helpful thank you very much,I'm not an artist so I'm probably wrong, but to me,it looks like that it's not one way to use them,there's not a rule,it's just what do you prefer to point out(depending,in turn, on your style) doesn't it?
@Salgood
@Salgood 8 лет назад
+Andrea Ambrosini there are a few 'rules of thumb', not hard rules. I use all those I mention in the clip more or or less at some point, the stronger foreground contours a lot, but also regularly vary weight for contour enhancement and to indicate shadow and highlight.
@joe-jz1dg
@joe-jz1dg 5 лет назад
so further away skinnier lines ? Basically thats line weight ? Please anyone, i need a basic explanation
@Salgood
@Salgood 5 лет назад
Yes, line weight is how thick or thin a line is. In that case the idea is they get smaller/thinner with the object they are describing. It's one of three models i mentioned, it's a good one. It's a way of using what's called atmospheric perspective in line art.
@PappuDas-fq1ll
@PappuDas-fq1ll 6 месяцев назад
Thanks for include TINTIN
@BeatNazty
@BeatNazty 5 лет назад
Salgood “amount of meat or mass on the muscle” Sam
@Leaftalez
@Leaftalez 2 года назад
why does he sound like Will Forte
@Salgood
@Salgood 2 года назад
I guess a little, but I don't have his California accent.
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