/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>5153136
Linework is used to convey weight, depth, pressure, form, etc. There's a reason no one worth their salt just takes a .03 micron pen and traces over a drawing with a single, uniform line and then calls it good, because the line isn't conveying anything. It's not telling you anything about the forms it's defining, it's not adding anything to the picture.

Every line should tell you something about the picture, and the way you do that is line weight. Things need variation to be "interesting", that's what the term means in art. "Visual interest" means that there is different contrasting things, whether they be colors or values or textures or forms or shapes, for your eye to move between. When dealing with lineart, visual interest comes from levels of contrast. A single, straight line is not visually interesting. A line with different thickness across it's length is visually interesting.

That's what it means.