I have seen artist be most successful two ways. 1. Scan a nice line drawing and float it above your rendering on multiply mode. 2. Scan it and redraw it in a program like Sketch Book Pro which has really nice thick to thin drawing tools. If you want constant line weight for each line then using paths in Photoshop would be the best.
This was so helpful to me!! I had noticed in my own art that things definitely looked better when I gave emphasis to where objects were intersecting and overlapping, but I didn't have a system for when to really darken more and why... Thanks for making this video!
Splendid demonstration and explanation! And THANK YOU for using the correct term "atmospheric perspective" as distinct from "aerial perspective" for the apparent lightening of forms as they recede into distance. Somewhere around the late 1980's, people started using the term "aerial" perspective incorrectly; To describe atmospheric effects. "Aerial" refers to anything in the air, but in Art, it specifically refers to the three-point perspective we see from any high vantage-point: atop a mountain, from an airplane or spacecraft, etc. Somewhere, some art student or magazine editor got the two terms confused. Now everybody uses the term "aerial" incorrectly. Even dictionaries and art glossaries now confuse the two terms. I know language evolves and I have seen it evolve numerous times during my life. But as a sixty-year-old who has been studying art most of his life, this particular misuse of "aerial" in place of "atmospheric" disturbs me. So it was a pleasure to see your excellent imaginative drawings, and doubly delightful to hear someone use the correct term, even if you did not clarify the difference between them. If more art teachers make it a point to distinguish between aerial and atmospheric perspective, then this point will not vanish! (get it?)
Scott, I love the way you "explain" what you're doing with a drawing, and I like the way you write out some information regarding your drawing. I also like the variation of thickness with your line work. This is one that helps a drawing stand out.
now that is interesting. I never quite knew how to go about line weight. just drew clean thin lines and wondered what was missing. shadows, colors, perspective, couldn't figure it out. and when I did try to do line weight on whatever, it didn't seem quite right either. but this right here gives me some ideas and insight on how to go about it. thank ya much!
I hate drawing mechs but after watching your videos, I realized how beautiful and interesting it is. Thanks so much for sharing your passion. You are very inspiring.
Absolutely brilliant! Also enjoying your How to Draw book currently. Certainly very appreciated that you show these pieces of work and go through them in such depth.
Great the lines, I am finding that I like to see art, that does not hide the process and still have the roughs in there. Love the dialog of what you were thinking and why. Thank you.
Keyword: atmospheric perspective! Thank you. Started to take this drawing thing more studiously and your channel is full of life and academic experience tips.
fantastic vid. I have been doing similar line weight for a while now but I realized while watching this that I have been getting more and more into thickly outlining the whole "item" which leads to the drawing looking too cartoon like. I am deff hoing to try to steer away from that. loved these drawings and your linework is so very captivating. thsnk you for sharing this with us.
You are the Leonardo davinci of technical perspective drawing (specifically for mech/scifi styles) thank you so much for these videos and for your books!
What an incredible exercise! Honestly I find the process of going through the scroll and seeing how you worked out details and expanded on the concept more interesting than the discussion about line weight.
Wow! My jaw is on the floor at your level of draftsmanship! On a roll of brown newspaper no less! So amazing! I will definitely be subscribing to your gumroad tutorials! Thanks for uploading 😊
Fantastic lecture! I've absorbed every second of it and I thank you for taking your time to do this video, I shall apply this knowledge to my work from now on!
Above and beyond the obvious instructions, this posting informs in ways you may not have even intended. Thank you for sharing; Very inspiring because of the terminologies you clearly explain. I love the rolled paper idea! Nice to see "Old School" in the age of Photoshop and Zbrush Cheers! Off I go to try a few new tricks.
Art School and University. However you can learn how to draw like this too (without Art school) He have a book: How to draw (and How to Render) You can start with these and learn private. If you like it join an Art-School or completly learn by yourself. With Books, Tutorials and online classes
Before this video, I have absolutely zero concepts of line weight, and this video just improved my sketching skills by 1% instantly, gotta practice more to get the next 99%. Thank you so much for this making us better at sketching.
Hi Scott, I base the weight of my lines primarily on light and shadow. Whatever line is closest to the light source gets the thinnest line and whatever gets the least light gets the heavy line. Of course I thin ALL of the lines out as the object gets farther away but I still maintain that rule of dark=thick, bright=thin. Thanks for the priceless tut's!!
Thank you so much sir, for your informative video about line weight! It is so much easier to understand as compared to when I was taking a drawing class a couple of years ago.. Your 20+ minute video explained so much more and so in depth!! Made me wonder sometimes, why I spent a year in a design school but ended up with less insights than your free videos and your "How to Draw" book.
Really informative, I feel like I learned a lot! And now that I know what to look for, I really love these drawings and all the thought and design that goes into them. Thanks!
Finally a good explanation of how to use line weight! Scott, if you consider doing more basic tutorials like these, that would be greatly appreciated. Amazing. Thank you.
Thank you for the advice on line weight pertaining to overlapping and atmospheric perspective. I was sceptical about the overlapping part, but it works
Excellent video! I'm currently taking basic drawing at a community college, and we learned the basic hierarchy of line weight just a few weeks ago: distance, tension, and light/dark areas. Before that my work didn't really have any line weight, at least not applied with knowledge of how and why artists use it. The difference it makes is amazing, drawing in line becomes so much more fun.
This is a delightful lecture! Such a difficult subject and i really liked your approach on it. My linework is pretty haphazard, but now I really feel i've learned something - and now onto practice! Thank you!
Great Video! Still looking forward to your books. I have had them on pre-order for almost a year now. But, I don't mind waiting, I know you are doing your best to make it the highest quality. I think we can all appreciate your efforts in putting it together and also giving us these free tutorial Fridays! Thank you.
Awesome tutorial! I'm a beginner to drawing, but loved this approach to understanding line weight...I really like unique approaches to tutorials.... It makes them all the more interesting. Great job!
Treasure, nice to see piece of works/art that's preserved. Interested also on the background,history of your design, inspirations etc. Thanks for uploading and sharing, I'll check on your other vids some other time!
You made it 1996... No RUclips, no stupid sites, no pressure nor jealousy. Just you, your pen, paper, desk and imagination. And you feel like badass king, thinking you're the best in the world when you create something yours, unique. I felt the same way until I got internet and discovered everyone can be an "artist" using easy tools on PC... World sucks and I'm sad about that. And you Scott, I want you to show me all the secrets of being Master in the world of art. I want to learn from the best!
Cool video scott, i was thinking about line weight the other day and i really had nothing to sketch with that would help do it on the fly so i had a look around and found pilots parallel pen so i am going to give that a try when it comes.
That arrow pointing to the right that u drew was close to perfect. Thanks for sharing and making this video.👍 All the detailed information definitely opened my eyes, now i know what im doing wrong with my drawings and how to fix it. 👏👏👏👍✌️
Literally on a roll. Like Kerouac. Or a pad of butter. But more to the point... your line work reminds me of some of Studio Ghiblis stuff, like Porco Roso or Nausica. But I can say fairly confidently that this is the first time I’ve ever seen anyone link the weight dynamic to *atmospheric* perspective. Distance, sure. As a factor of standard 1-3 pt perspective. But not ‘sfumato’. Brilliant. Just when you think you’ve heard it all.
Awesome... love these... The principle reminds me of those infographics you see, where the outer stroke weight is thicker than the details... very interesting. Thanks again Scott.
Wonderful sketches and design process. I will be using this as inspiration and reference for my clases. Scott R. among the best of the best outthere! thank you!
I feel like the sheets you use are different than a normal white A4 sheets, it looks more dense but at the same time quite sleek. 11:50 I like the arm bone inspired (ulna & radius) extension arm you did there ,very cool!
Great Video. I really have to try the scroll thing. But without a doubt this will surely improve the way I approach line with classical drawing. Thank for sharing my friend.
Practice drawing from the elbow and not the wrist. Something I am doing is filling a page with vertical and horizontal lines that vary in weight and thickness; so it looks like graph paper. Then fill each empty square with ellipses or circles. Do this once a day or more and you will gain lots of line control.
Hey Scott. Great video. I just have a question regarding the perspective "tick marks" you do in most of your sketches. Drawing perspective through imagination would be natural to you after all these years of experience you have, but as a beginner, what were the steps you took to get your perspective accurate? Did you use perspective grid line guides etc? What are your thoughts for a beginner in perspective art?THANKS, your videos are very helpful Scott. :)
Correct, those tick marks are the reference points the guidelines would create if drawn out completely. Basically I'm visualizing the guideline and them putting down the tick mark. When starting out just lightly draw the entire guideline for reference, the more you draw the more you can start to leave out.
Damn... I really enjoyed that thank you. coming from drawing background. i wished this is what they shouldve been teaching us. wow just seeing that helps me alot on my professional drawing goals. gonna go watch more of ur vids.
amazing video, thanks a bunch, this answered alot of questions I've had for a long time. Could have done with a teacher like you when I was at art school lol.
I really like your approach to art Scott, especially cutting out that bike to get the shadows rather than model it. I loose all perspective when drawing on a computer. I muck around with different software, mainly corel but just bought an old Elements DVD, I haven't had a chance to load it yet as I am finishing off game characters. But I was mucking around on Kritter last night and was surprised how good it is The ink brush works like an old wooden 'pen' that we used at school (thick lines on sharp corners and an absolute great stabilising tool that is better than Sketchbook or besier path tools in Ps and PP. The only problem is resolution, but then Kritter is free.
so little things you dont need to specaially make a really thick line at least that you want to make the eye look there or like the chains from that vehicle in minute 8:30 there have thinner lines because they are inside they silouhette i thing im correct?
Do you come from any kind of mechanical background? If not, how did you come to understand mechanisms? Another awesome video. Not sure why i am paying to go to art school when i can learn from you here for free.
+Valen Ho Maybe the schools you've gone to unfortunately, but I've been teaching this in schools for 20 years now and I was taught the same when I was in school.
+Valen Ho I think that you are right though. i go to architecture school, we are taught about the importance of line weights when "reading" a drawing. however we are left to figure this out on our own. (not sure about art and design schools) Ive never had an instructor talk about the techniques he uses in the video. I'm definitely going to be using and talking about the "acceleration" of the lines in my work from now on. thanks!
I have seen artist be most successful two ways. 1. Scan a nice line drawing and float it above your rendering on multiply mode. 2. Scan it and redraw it in a program like Sketch Book Pro which has really nice thick to thin drawing tools. If you want constant line weight for each line then using paths in Photoshop would be the best.
Holy shit an actually useful art instructor on youtube
What about jazza?
@Lucca Thiago thats illegal lol
@@thorsart5842he’s trash, both as an artist and a teacher
No, I was into a bunch of graphic novels at the time but I cannot remember now who the artists were. It was 17 years ago after all.
This was so helpful to me!! I had noticed in my own art that things definitely looked better when I gave emphasis to where objects were intersecting and overlapping, but I didn't have a system for when to really darken more and why... Thanks for making this video!
Fantastic Video. I bought your book "How to draw.." last month and definitely one of my favourite books ever. Would recommend anyone.
Aside from being informative, that was very pleasant to watch. Thanks.
Splendid demonstration and explanation!
And THANK YOU for using the correct term "atmospheric perspective" as distinct from "aerial perspective" for the apparent lightening of forms as they recede into distance.
Somewhere around the late 1980's, people started using the term "aerial" perspective incorrectly; To describe atmospheric effects.
"Aerial" refers to anything in the air, but in Art, it specifically refers to the three-point perspective we see from any high vantage-point: atop a mountain, from an airplane or spacecraft, etc.
Somewhere, some art student or magazine editor got the two terms confused. Now everybody uses the term "aerial" incorrectly. Even dictionaries and art glossaries now confuse the two terms.
I know language evolves and I have seen it evolve numerous times during my life.
But as a sixty-year-old who has been studying art most of his life, this particular misuse of "aerial" in place of "atmospheric" disturbs me.
So it was a pleasure to see your excellent imaginative drawings, and doubly delightful to hear someone use the correct term, even if you did not clarify the difference between them.
If more art teachers make it a point to distinguish between aerial and atmospheric perspective, then this point will not vanish!
(get it?)
I'll try to make a point of defining both in my next book, How to Render.
Scott, I love the way you "explain" what you're doing with a drawing, and I like the way you write out some information regarding your drawing. I also like the variation of thickness with your line work. This is one that helps a drawing stand out.
you're an excellent teacher, Scott! Like Feng Zhu, the information is easy to digest and flows consistently. Thank you!
now that is interesting. I never quite knew how to go about line weight. just drew clean thin lines and wondered what was missing. shadows, colors, perspective, couldn't figure it out. and when I did try to do line weight on whatever, it didn't seem quite right either.
but this right here gives me some ideas and insight on how to go about it.
thank ya much!
These drawings remind me of the detailed yet cartooned designs for the game "Advanced Wars". They're so believable and imaginative.
I hate drawing mechs but after watching your videos, I realized how beautiful and interesting it is. Thanks so much for sharing your passion. You are very inspiring.
Absolutely brilliant! Also enjoying your How to Draw book currently. Certainly very appreciated that you show these pieces of work and go through them in such depth.
Great the lines, I am finding that I like to see art, that does not hide the process and still have the roughs in there. Love the dialog of what you were thinking and why. Thank you.
Great traditional tips.
Im not a digital artist so these are much appreciated.
Keyword: atmospheric perspective! Thank you. Started to take this drawing thing more studiously and your channel is full of life and academic experience tips.
DaVinci called it.... mmm. “Sphfumato”? “Sfumato”?
Purple mountains’ majesty. Right?
Thank you Scott! This was the first proper tutorial of line weigh usage in design I have seen. It was very helpful!
fantastic vid. I have been doing similar line weight for a while now but I realized while watching this that I have been getting more and more into thickly outlining the whole "item" which leads to the drawing looking too cartoon like. I am deff hoing to try to steer away from that. loved these drawings and your linework is so very captivating. thsnk you for sharing this with us.
You are the Leonardo davinci of technical perspective drawing (specifically for mech/scifi styles) thank you so much for these videos and for your books!
What an incredible exercise! Honestly I find the process of going through the scroll and seeing how you worked out details and expanded on the concept more interesting than the discussion about line weight.
As a 2d artist this helps me so much! I didn't even thought about this, but somehow helped! Thank you so much!
Line weight is so freaking important it's crazy. Great video . I needed this for Traditional AND photoshop
Wow! My jaw is on the floor at your level of draftsmanship! On a roll of brown newspaper no less! So amazing! I will definitely be subscribing to your gumroad tutorials! Thanks for uploading 😊
omg this is so satisfying to watch, line weight is really just so nice to look at
Fantastic lecture! I've absorbed every second of it and I thank you for taking your time to do this video, I shall apply this knowledge to my work from now on!
I'm currently reading your book and can't believe I just ran into the author on RUclips . Huge surprise.!
Above and beyond the obvious instructions, this posting informs in ways you may not have even intended. Thank you for sharing; Very inspiring because of the terminologies you clearly explain. I love the rolled paper idea! Nice to see "Old School" in the age of Photoshop and Zbrush Cheers! Off I go to try a few new tricks.
Thanks!
Art School and University.
However you can learn how to draw like this too (without Art school)
He have a book: How to draw (and How to Render)
You can start with these and learn private. If you like it join an Art-School or completly learn by yourself.
With Books, Tutorials and online classes
Not drawn in alot of years been reading your how to draw book. Learned more form that than 3 years at college its fab!!
Before this video, I have absolutely zero concepts of line weight, and this video just improved my sketching skills by 1% instantly, gotta practice more to get the next 99%. Thank you so much for this making us better at sketching.
Hi Scott, I base the weight of my lines primarily on light and shadow. Whatever line is closest to the light source gets the thinnest line and whatever gets the least light gets the heavy line. Of course I thin ALL of the lines out as the object gets farther away but I still maintain that rule of dark=thick, bright=thin. Thanks for the priceless tut's!!
i liked this 5 minutes in because ive already learned more than in the past 3 years of school
Thank you so much sir, for your informative video about line weight! It is so much easier to understand as compared to when I was taking a drawing class a couple of years ago.. Your 20+ minute video explained so much more and so in depth!! Made me wonder sometimes, why I spent a year in a design school but ended up with less insights than your free videos and your "How to Draw" book.
You're welcome. Thanks for the support via buying a copy of How To Draw.
Done. I bought both of your books. Thanks for sharing your process.
Really informative, I feel like I learned a lot! And now that I know what to look for, I really love these drawings and all the thought and design that goes into them. Thanks!
Finally a good explanation of how to use line weight! Scott, if you consider doing more basic tutorials like these, that would be greatly appreciated. Amazing. Thank you.
Thank you for the advice on line weight pertaining to overlapping and atmospheric perspective. I was sceptical about the overlapping part, but it works
Excellent video! I'm currently taking basic drawing at a community college, and we learned the basic hierarchy of line weight just a few weeks ago: distance, tension, and light/dark areas. Before that my work didn't really have any line weight, at least not applied with knowledge of how and why artists use it. The difference it makes is amazing, drawing in line becomes so much more fun.
Beautiful line weight makes my eyes glow
Wow, im impressed by the amount of work you put there. Three days is... wow.
This is a delightful lecture! Such a difficult subject and i really liked your approach on it. My linework is pretty haphazard, but now I really feel i've learned something - and now onto practice! Thank you!
Great Video! Still looking forward to your books. I have had them on pre-order for almost a year now. But, I don't mind waiting, I know you are doing your best to make it the highest quality. I think we can all appreciate your efforts in putting it together and also giving us these free tutorial Fridays! Thank you.
What a great video I love how you define the line weight thanks for sharing your talent with us
Love the backgrounds, they give a nice context to your awesome machinery, thanks for sharing!
Excellent tips. Beautiful drawings. I love the colour of the newsprint.
This week's FTF was so helpful! Thanks so much for showing us the sketches. I love the line drawing.
Awesome tutorial! I'm a beginner to drawing, but loved this approach to understanding line weight...I really like unique approaches to tutorials....
It makes them all the more interesting. Great job!
I've been searching for a good tutorial on this very subject for a while now. Thanks a lot as always!
Treasure, nice to see piece of works/art that's preserved.
Interested also on the background,history of your design, inspirations etc.
Thanks for uploading and sharing, I'll check on your other vids some other time!
Thankyou for going over these drawings and sharing your retrospective insight and commentary on them. Really inspiring. Subscribed!
I need to buy your books. It seems with every video you make me feel more and more like I'm stealing invaluable information. Awesome video!!
You made it 1996... No RUclips, no stupid sites, no pressure nor jealousy. Just you, your pen, paper, desk and imagination. And you feel like badass king, thinking you're the best in the world when you create something yours, unique. I felt the same way until I got internet and discovered everyone can be an "artist" using easy tools on PC... World sucks and I'm sad about that. And you Scott, I want you to show me all the secrets of being Master in the world of art. I want to learn from the best!
Fantastic discussion on an often overlooked topic. Great insights and beautiful illustrations, many thanks!
Cool video scott, i was thinking about line weight the other day and i really had nothing to sketch with that would help do it on the fly so i had a look around and found pilots parallel pen so i am going to give that a try when it comes.
I'm studying transport design and your work is always such an inspiration. Thank you!
That arrow pointing to the right that u drew was close to perfect. Thanks for sharing and making this video.👍 All the detailed information definitely opened my eyes, now i know what im doing wrong with my drawings and how to fix it. 👏👏👏👍✌️
Literally on a roll.
Like Kerouac. Or a pad of butter.
But more to the point... your line work reminds me of some of Studio Ghiblis stuff, like Porco Roso or Nausica. But I can say fairly confidently that this is the first time I’ve ever seen anyone link the weight dynamic to *atmospheric* perspective. Distance, sure. As a factor of standard 1-3 pt perspective. But not ‘sfumato’. Brilliant.
Just when you think you’ve heard it all.
Awesome... love these... The principle reminds me of those infographics you see, where the outer stroke weight is thicker than the details... very interesting. Thanks again Scott.
The look of the line weight variations he is using remind me of Calvin and Hobbes. I absolutely loved Bill Watterson's style.
Wonderful sketches and design process. I will be using this as inspiration and reference for my clases. Scott R. among the best of the best outthere! thank you!
Thank you for this amazingly insightful video! I feel like line weight is an integral challenge for me, and that this lesson will help me overcome it!
Thank you for such a great tutorial. Overlaps are really powerfull
IKR!, its incredible how straight his lines are!.
Thank you for sharing your work sir. Watching your tutorials are always good learning experiences. You are a true master of your craft.
Very good video. Clear and descriptive. Thanks for indicating the reasons behind the decisions you took. You have a new subscriber!
wow!! in the first 7 minutes I got the answer to several questions about this Technic, that I had for several years.
You can just make an art book out of this roll! I'd buy it! Nice art, Scott!
I feel like the sheets you use are different than a normal white A4 sheets, it looks more dense but at the same time quite sleek.
11:50 I like the arm bone inspired (ulna & radius) extension arm you did there ,very cool!
Fantastic drawings, clean and artistic. Bravo.
Great Video. I really have to try the scroll thing. But without a doubt this will surely improve the way I approach line with classical drawing. Thank for sharing my friend.
wow... nice stuff, also your line drawing is so smooth, it pleases the eye to look at it !
Absolutely stellar video. Very clear explanations of line-weight.
Practice drawing from the elbow and not the wrist. Something I am doing is filling a page with vertical and horizontal lines that vary in weight and thickness; so it looks like graph paper. Then fill each empty square with ellipses or circles. Do this once a day or more and you will gain lots of line control.
such a cool drawing style, also those flying machines! So inspirational!!
My god. Where Kin jung gi decided to have a built in grid. This dude has created a built in ruler.
Wish I learned about lineweight in Art Fundamentals other then gluing wings to shoes :(
What!?
I think he's probably highlighting how shit art classes generally are now.
That's how they get you.
Exactly! Basically all art schools in my country are like this -.-
A really very informative video, I got a lot from that. Thanks. I really love your style as well.
"dont leave walnuts on your desk while you are sketching - you just never know!" classic.
Thanks for these tutorials Scott - super informative
I like your teaching techniques, it was a tough decision between food and your book, who needs to eat anyway. Well, I'm off to get your book, Blast.
Tranks for your quick feedback Scott!
I love your art dude you got talent, great tutorial, I will watch more much respect
Hey Scott. Great video. I just have a question regarding the perspective "tick marks" you do in most of your sketches. Drawing perspective through imagination would be natural to you after all these years of experience you have, but as a beginner, what were the steps you took to get your perspective accurate? Did you use perspective grid line guides etc? What are your thoughts for a beginner in perspective art?THANKS, your videos are very helpful Scott. :)
Correct, those tick marks are the reference points the guidelines would create if drawn out completely. Basically I'm visualizing the guideline and them putting down the tick mark. When starting out just lightly draw the entire guideline for reference, the more you draw the more you can start to leave out.
Ohh
18 years ago, and that good already :o Very inspiring drawings
So very cool (and educational!) to watch this sequence.
awesome blend of organic n mechanical design
Damn... I really enjoyed that thank you. coming from drawing background. i wished this is what they shouldve been teaching us. wow just seeing that helps me alot on my professional drawing goals. gonna go watch more of ur vids.
This was great. Thank you so much. Just bought two of your books.
thanks so much for the video…very helpful…really informative in a relaxed accessible way…the best !!!
RIDICULOUSLY helpful.
Great understanding of perspective. ..luv ur work..
amazing video, thanks a bunch, this answered alot of questions I've had for a long time. Could have done with a teacher like you when I was at art school lol.
This is some great piece of artwork nice job 🔥🔥🔥🔥
I really like your approach to art Scott, especially cutting out that bike to get the shadows rather than model it. I loose all perspective when drawing on a computer. I muck around with different software, mainly corel but just bought an old Elements DVD, I haven't had a chance to load it yet as I am finishing off game characters. But I was mucking around on Kritter last night and was surprised how good it is The ink brush works like an old wooden 'pen' that we used at school (thick lines on sharp corners and an absolute great stabilising tool that is better than Sketchbook or besier path tools in Ps and PP. The only problem is resolution, but then Kritter is free.
it flies.... it skies... it's got treads on it... you had me convinced there; i'll buy one
awesome!
i am buying all your books! cant wait for the new releases.
Thank you. This is amazing. Very inspiring and informative!
that's incredible. outstanding work
This is brilliant stuff; makes me want to pick up my pencil & pens.
Looking forward to your books. If you explain things half as good... Preordered!
Thank you very much Scott for the video, it was very informative!
so little things you dont need to specaially make a really thick line at least that you want to make the eye look there
or like the chains from that vehicle in minute 8:30 there have thinner lines because they are inside they silouhette i thing
im correct?
Do you come from any kind of mechanical background? If not, how did you come to understand mechanisms?
Another awesome video. Not sure why i am paying to go to art school when i can learn from you here for free.
+Ben Lisle Good question. I would also like to know
+Ben Lisle I think this is one of the things that 'school' doesn't teach...
+Valen Ho Maybe the schools you've gone to unfortunately, but I've been teaching this in schools for 20 years now and I was taught the same when I was in school.
+Scott Robertson ok...thanks for the info
+Valen Ho I think that you are right though. i go to architecture school, we are taught about the importance of line weights when "reading" a drawing. however we are left to figure this out on our own. (not sure about art and design schools) Ive never had an instructor talk about the techniques he uses in the video.
I'm definitely going to be using and talking about the "acceleration" of the lines in my work from now on. thanks!