Is it alright to use a ruler when adding a line weight or still need to use a ghosting line to make it?
Nope, ghosting line, and just like all other lines done on lesson 1, focus on confidence when doing them, it's more important for the line to be confident and smooth than for it to be accurate.
I see. Thank you for the response!
Hey Elodin (btw nice Name of the Wind reference)
In terms of line weight i though I should add more pressure to the pen when doing the outer lines and use less pressure for the inner lines. In the first lesson I drew multiple ghosted lines in the organic perspective exercise and I was told in the critique that I should avoid "going over the same lines".
So I though that I'm supposed to use more/less pressure when adding line weight but under no circumstance draw another ghosted line on top of it.
Now it seems to me like you're implying that the opposite is advisable, would you please clarify?
Thanks!
And yes to your question. You can superimpose lines over others to get more lineweight. Now, it's important to keep it subtle, so when doing it, do it only with a line, and don't repeat it if you fail.
Which is probably what the person who critiqued you tried to say, you should never repeat a line, even if it was wrong. This doesn't apply to adding lineweight with a superimposed line, as that's a new line.
Yeah..I was filling in the spaces in between the lines when I failed to make them perfectly overlap. Now I understand, thanks a lot.
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