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How do you decide on line thickness when doing lineart? Are there some guidelines or you just make it thicker or thinner in places as you like?

>> No.6230295

intuition

>> No.6230298

>>6230277
There are general rules like outlines being thicker. Or objects that appear to be closer to the viewer.

>> No.6230351

>>6230277
Thicker lines can be used to indicate shadows / surface facing away from light source. Other than that, it’s just whatever looks good.

>> No.6230362

>>6230277
buy a g-pen, ink a few times with it and then you will understand.

>> No.6230402

>>6230277
Where’s the light coming from

>> No.6230405
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>>6230277
There's a few things like:
-Thinner lines in light and thicker in dark
-Thicker lines to indicate shadow
-Thicker Lines to indicate weight
-Thick lines to indicate position relative to the viewer

Take a look at more western artists/cartoonist rather than japs; regardless of you're opinion on their art, they tend to not play with line weights nearly as much as western artists.

But in the end, it's mostly stylistic choices, think Jamie Hewlett's earlier stuff.

>> No.6230688

>>6230277
>you just make it thicker or thinner in places as you like?
Pretty much this.

>> No.6231462

>>6230405
I always wondered about these rules, what happens if a line is in shadow, but far from the viewer? Should it be thick or thin? What's the priority for these rules?
And yes I know the answer is to just copy lines from artists you like but I want to know how they arrived at their conclusions.

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>>6230277
you copy Frank Cho until you understand it

>> No.6231496

>>6231462
These rules can work together with each other. If you have something that's in shadow but far from the viewer, it essentially evens itself out. Of course there's no hard answer to that as it would depend not just how far or dark an element is, but stylistic choice. It's mostly going to boil down to what ends up reading best. You may want to accentuate shadows more in a piece, hence you'll give them a lot more weight than an element right up against the viewer's eye.

>> No.6232664

every "rule" has more pieces ignoring it than following it so there's no right way to do anything in art. You do whatever looks cooler. In that op pic, the outline thickness comes from naturally drawing the contours, its not a conscious thought.