Abstract One Line Face Drawings
Class: Abstract One-Line Face Drawings: Discovering Your One Line Art Style Using Procreate by Attabeira German (Disclaimer: if you sign up through the link, we’ll both get one free month of Skillshare).
This class teaches abstract line drawings, surveying 4 different styles from different artists on Instagram: amorphous, curved, geometric, and thick and thin. I was drawn the most towards the thick and thin style, it felt more feminine and elegant to me. The curved style kind of reminded me Picasso, especially the examples we looked at in the class. The geometric style seems more like a man’s face to me than a woman’s. Perhaps it’s the pointy chin or the angular eyebrows?
Drawing in one continuous line for the whole drawing takes a bit of pre-planning for start and end points. This is why my curved style sample is missing a shoulder.
After going through the four styles, the class project is to take what you’ve learned and the parts you like from each style and create something of your own.
Amorphous one line drawing style
Curved one line drawing style
Geometric one line drawing style
Thick and thin one line drawing style
With the project for my voice, I chose to emphasize certain features like the hair, eye lids, bottom lip, and shoulders with thick lines and to deemphasize other features using thinner lines. I'm hoping the thicker lines draw the eye more towards those areas. This kind of reminded me of brush lettering and how downstrokes are thick and upstrokes are thin. I’ve always liked the juxtaposition of thick and thin strokes in brush lettering and wanted to channel some of that into this piece as well.
“My voice” version
Something I struggle with in Procreate is drawing smooth lines in general, especially the longer the line is or if it changes direction. You can kinda see this on the chin/jawline. How the line is unintentionally wobbly. Does anyone have any tips/advice on how to draw more smoothly? I was going through so many cycles of undo/redraw and still couldn't figure it out. Let me know in the comments below. And thanks in advance!
