Paintings are not flat. Not good ones. Painter Michael Newberry explains in this mini-tutorial how artists, good ones, use line, especially the bounding line of the figure, to help give three-dimensional depth to what appears on their two-dimensional sheet of paper. Read Mini-tutorial: Line Value, Use the Wall.
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A very insightful article which threw a lot of light on one aspect of artistic technique.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately though, my first impression is that this poor woman is sitting in a puddle of her own urine....
Softening the edges of the shadow detail might have avoided this effect somewhat.