|Fairhaven High School Visual Arts||
How do I show volume with line?
Becoming sensitive to an object’s edge will help create a drawing where the lines have more character and variety. However, to describe the object’s three-dimensional qualities, artists might use Cross-Contour lines to show the volume of an object.
Art III students created an accurate and clean interpretation of a still life, one that describes the object by using a continuous line that is sensitive to each of the objects’ edges. By then including lines that follow the volume of the object(s), one can begin to see the object as 3D. The purpose of this cross-contour drawing is to emphasize the objects’ mass and volume.