Chapter 4 Lines

A contour drawing is a drawing made simply of lines with the outside edges of the features of a person or object outlined. The three types of lines in regard to compositiona are; actual lines, implied lines, and imaginary lines. An actual line is real line, like when we open our notebooks and see the actual lines going across the paper. An implied line is when objects are lined up some how, in which form a line, but are not connected, and example of an implied line would be when a teacher askes her/his students to "get in a single file line." The last type of line you have are imaginary lines is a line that isn't there, but our minds percieve it as a line, like when a detour arrow points in a direction to go, it's an imaginary line. Pixelation can effect a curved line on a monitor display by making it looking jagged or semi smooth, which depends on the pixelation. Pixelation problems are becoming less of a problem with the improved monitors that use smaller pixels. 

I have never looked up designers, artists, or any such thing. So I thought this would be good for me. I have no idea who these belong too, but they are four examples of lines that caught my eye.

The first one is a design with very soft, graceful lines that really don't lead you anywhere, but back to your starting point. I think these lines are simply eye candy for a person, they seem very feminine, and have no true purpose, almost like they say, "STOP! Smell the roses. ENJOY! The little things. The simple things.

The second one I found has what seem to be very overwhelming lines, like they don't know what to do, where to go, or how to go there. This peice has all three types of lines; real, implied, and imaginary. These seem very negative to me, almost sad, but certainly confused. 

The line in the next piece I found are very straight forward, hard to miss. The lines are harsh they scream at me like a middle child. They are attention starved and need someone to recognize their existance. They are angry at the world.

   

This is my favorite. It is an example of implied lines. I ran across it, and thought, "Nothing so great about this peice." Then when I was scrolling down I noticed that when you look closer it has two arrows that point at each other. I think maybe this piece is balanced, happy to be what it is. It's controlled, it wasn't just an accident, it was done intentionally.