Here, I was practicing using a carved piece of bamboo and ink. I created an observational line drawing.

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An effective way of using the carved bamboo was to, after dipping into the ink, rotate it occasionally to achieve different thicknesses of lines.

Ruler Technique

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Here I used the ink and ruler technique which involves holding up a ruler from your perspective of the ruler against the object to achieve accurate angling of your strokes. The comparison between these two methods shows how, without roughly measuring each angle of the object, you can deceive yourself as you draw from observation without using this method; making strokes higher or lower than they actually are.

The ink and ruler technique proved to take much more time to carry out as you could need to draw each angle in small parts to get it accurate – especially when drawing curves.

A plane refers to a flat surface. For instance, a table on which you’d place your paper to draw on would be considered a plane.

An angle refers to when a line that is drawn changes direction as well as the size of a vertex that has been drawn.

 

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