There are many different ways Line is used in the creation of an artwork. It can be drawn, painted, incised, tangible, figurative or abstract.

Here are some examples of various lines artists use: 

  • Straight lines can be diagonal, horizontal, vertical, parallel, zigzag
  • Curved lines can be circular, wavey, spiral
  • Thin and Thick lines and also well defined lines or lines that fade out

 

Manuak, Linear

Outlines and Contour lines are used in drawing and painting to create forms and give the illusion of volume - mass.

Project Gutenberg EBook of The Nursery, No. 107, November, 1875, Vol. XVIII., by Various
This artist uses variety of organic lines, thick and thin, defined and faded.

Patrick Ray Day, Retired Thunderbird, 2007; welded, forged steel

Lines used in sculpture to create different shapes and close in negative spaces.

 

Zaha Hadid, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan state University campus.

Lines appear in architecture and sculpture as decorative elements and as the edges of forms
 
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