Hundertwasser Line drawing Student Examples

Line Drawing Exercise

Because of the circumstances of being at home, we decided to go back to the drawing unit and create a line drawing. We were given any drawings created by Hunterwasser, an artist, and print a drawing that we liked. We then had to cut out a portion of the drawing that we felt most inspired by to continue the drawing, but with our own twist to it. Similar to the Zentangle Drawing, I used many pencil and pen techniques to create lines with different depths and thicknesses.

Original Drawing:

This is the drawing by Hunterwasser that I felt the most inspired by. I decided to cut out the square that is framed at the top of the drawing because I instantly came up with multiple ideas on how I could continue the lines and shapes to create my own drawing.

Day 1

As you can see, I decided to place the cut out at the bottom right corner. I began to draw with a pencil that I wanted my drawing to look like. I really wanted to continue the lines and the swirls that are seen in the original drawing in my own drawing. At this point, I was not sure what I wanted the center of attention to be, but I was gravitating for it to be the bottom portion of the drawing. I began to fill in the lines with a black marker to continue the lines. For more variation, I will need to add a more grayscale with a pencil and shading.

Day 2

You can see that now my drawing has more contrast between the black and the white. And I have also added a more grayscale with a pencil in some parts of the drawing. I really like how I was able to use black, gray, and white to create a design which you can see in the center bottom part of the drawing. I think the drawing looks very cohesive except for the bottom left corner. I wanted to add a very creative element to my drawing like Hunterwasser does in his own drawings, which is something that my feedback said.

Day 3

I decided to continue the same thing I was doing on Day 2 to have a very cohesive drawing. I continued to add more black and gray elements to create a nice contrast. So far, I really like how it is turning out and I think I am almost done! My next step is to add a color element to the drawing, but I don't want the color to overpower the rest of the drawing.

Day 4

The feedback for this day was very helpful. Mr.Laurence told me that one of the line designs in the middle of my drawing needed to have more resolution, because it was being lost by the rest of the designs. Before, I had just traced it with a thin black pen but then I went over it with a black marker which not only made the lines thicker, but it also brought out that design in the middle. On this day, I also added a pop of color using a blue color pencil to some areas of the drawing.

Final

After adding the blue, I realized that it was missing another color so I looked at the color wheel and noticed that orange and blue are complimentary colors. So for the second color, I used orange to fill in some shapes to give the blue a nice contrast. Overall, I am very happy with my final line drawing exercise! A challenge that I encountered was figuring out which areas I should fill in with black and marker and which areas to leave white. I wanted to make sure the eye could rest by leaving enough negative space. In the end, I think I was able to balance out the negative and positive space nicely. A success that I had was knowing what design of lines I wanted to do and just went with it. When I first saw the original drawing, I knew exactly how I wanted to carry out the rest of the project. It really turned how I wanted it too from the beginning!

Line drawing exercise

Day 1

I placed the cutout design just off the center of the page and created three types of patterns of triangles, wavy lines, and circles. I want to leave blank areas in the upper right and left sides of the work.

Day 2

I like the areas of black in the design to keep the eye moving. I would also like to make the round image areas to pop out more as a major feature to this design. I would be sure to keep the areas to the left of the large circle blank to bring the eye to that area.

Feedback given:

I really like how the dark areas of black are repeated at the top as it draws my attention to that section. I would say to maybe add more smaller circles to the wavy lines at the bottom left of the design or even more of the triangle shapes that you have on the bottom. Mr. Laurence

Day 3

This is my current state of the work. I have added further designs to the right of the picture. I added thick black lines next to the empty white spaces at the top, and will be sure to add more empty spaces to the remaining areas as it seems to start to look too busy for my taste.

This is the finished design. I find that the amount of empty space and filled space with pencil and pen is at a good balance. I think I would like to add ore black to the edges of the cutout to make it more seamless in the future.

This is the finished design with a triad color scheme of red, yellow, and blue. I wanted to add a little bit of each of the three colors throughout the work to keep the eye moving, but not too much color to detract from the design. I think if I had a chance to do it over again, I would use only one or two colors.