Today’s essential question: How can I use line weight to create an interesting tattoo?
Today we will sketch out our ideas for our own tattoo designs. We will use different types of line weight to help make our designs more interesting. Your sketch must be created in a 5×10 size, in either landscape or portrait orientation. The orientation must make sense with what you’re drawing. Remember that these will later be layered on top of your arm, so when creating your design think about how the placement will effect what you may want to draw.
Line Weight
Line weight refers to the variation in strength, thickness, and darkness of your line. Using line weight can add emphasis to an area of your design or it can also add volume and dimension. Using variations of line weight will help make your drawing more interesting.
Sketch Examples:
- How are these sketches utilizing line in a successful way?
- What are some ways the artist could add more variation to their lines? How would adding variation in line weight make them more successful?
Today we will:
- Discuss the differences in line weight and how they can be used to help make our sketches better
- Talk about what a good sketch looks like vs what a bad one looks like
- Start to sketch out our tattoo designs on a 5×10 piece of paper
- Remember to choose the appropriate orientation for your sketch
- Make a blog post that answers the following questions:
- What are you finding easy about designing a tattoo?
- What are some problems or difficulties you are having?
- Which artist did you choose to be inspired by and what have you sketched so far that has been influenced by them?
- How will you continue your sketch and what is your plan for you final design?
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