• Have your pencils sharpened

• Copy the Rules for Drawing:– Pull your pencil, don’t push it.– Use proper lineweights and linetypes

• All lines begin as construction lines

DRILL

January 28, 2008

Linetype and Lineweight

Lesson Objective:– To know and practice appropriate lineweights

and linetypes– To know and practice simple sketching

techniques

• Four Weights in this class:

– Light: barely visible (not noticeable from 2’)

– Medium: just noticeable from 2’

– Heavy: obvious from 2’

– Very Heavy: only used for borders

Line Weights

• ALL LINES begin as LIGHT Construction Lines.

• Why start with light lines?

Drawing

• On a clean sheet of notebook paper draw a chart with the following columns:

LINETYPES

Name Example Weight Uses       

       

       

       

         

Object Lines– Thick lines– Walls, porches, patios, driveways– Stand out

Hidden Lines– Medium lines– Wall cabinets, archways, hidden objects

Center Lines– Medium– Centers of symmetrical objects– For dimensioning

Border Lines – Thickest lines

Layout / Construction Lines – Thin lines – All lines begin as these– Not meant to be seen– Darken over them

Extension Lines – Medium lines– Extend from object

Dimension Lines – Medium lines– Dimension b/w extension lines

Extension

Dimension

Section Lines– Medium– A cut surface

Represent cross-section of fireplace brick

Guidelines– Thin– For lettering– Not seen

• Always pull your pencil, don’t push it.• Mark two points, then draw your pencil between

them.

• Keep lines LIGHT.• Connect the dots in #1 on your worksheet

Drawing

Classwork

• From memory, sketch the house you live in.