TUTORIAL // line weight
Added 2024-07-05 09:00:05 +0000 UTCA new month is upon us, and it’s time for a new tutorial! This one is on line weight. It talks about why it’s helpful to vary the thickness of your lines, and how you can achieve different types of stylistic effects with different approaches to your linework. If you like creating neat and clean lines, it has lots of helpful tips - but it’s also for those of you who like to just work from rough sketches and keep your lines messy, like me!
I mention a lot of tutorials that form good companion tutorials with this one. The main ones are:
For the brushes, I just used the hard round brush from my own free brushset: https://loish.net/free-goodie-bag-for-digital-artists
I also mention that creating strong lineart goes hand in hand with improving your sense of construction and volume. I have a lot of tutorials that touch on these topics! Here are a few of them:
Here's the final result of the demo:
And as always, here's a cheat sheet with essential information from the tutorial:
There's also a PDF version with clickable links at the bottom of this post. Hope you enjoy this tutorial! You should be able to turn captions on and off using the embedded player ❤ Let me know if you have any issues with it! And as always, feel free to ask any questions you may have after watching this video!
Comments
i'm so happy to hear that! I also find it soooo boring to create clean linework and it always felt so flat. so hopefully this one will help you, coming from the same perspective!
Loish
2025-03-27 12:24:26 +0000 UTCI've struggled for a long time with linework. It's been particularly hard not to lose the initial depth and flowiness of my drawings. At some point, I gave up completely on the idea of cleaning up my sketches and started the painting process over them, but it never quite felt like I could reach the initial idea I had in mind. So thank you so much for this video. It's been INCREDIBLY helpful. I can't wait to try out all these tips. <3
emma barsanti
2025-03-24 10:35:00 +0000 UTChappy to hear that! sometimes the only way to improve at something is to just accept that you're not willing/able to do it the way you expected.
Loish
2024-08-26 09:52:43 +0000 UTCThis was so awesome to watch. I have very similar frustrations about lineart and I've struggled around 15 or more years with it. This approach feels so much more natural and helps me love drawing again.
Kelli E Sarre
2024-08-25 21:16:15 +0000 UTCIt was very useful, i have never seen lineart that way. Thank you so much!
Leïla Ancelin
2024-08-16 13:38:34 +0000 UTChappy to hear that Christine!
Loish
2024-07-15 09:21:06 +0000 UTCI really enjoy the way you explain, thank you , you are so generous, this really helped me!
Christine Cook
2024-07-10 18:50:55 +0000 UTCso glad you liked it tracey!
Loish
2024-07-08 14:49:49 +0000 UTCI'm glad you like them! I can't really figure out a way to shorten my tutorials so this is my best solution ^^;
Loish
2024-07-08 14:47:50 +0000 UTCi hope you find it helpful! <3
Loish
2024-07-08 14:47:15 +0000 UTCI'm so happy to hear that Abelle!
Loish
2024-07-08 14:42:20 +0000 UTCIt's such a struggle to preserve a dynamic feel with linework! I hope you find this one helpful!
Loish
2024-07-08 14:42:08 +0000 UTCI'm so glad you like it! <3
Loish
2024-07-08 14:41:20 +0000 UTCI saw this on your IG, and man it made me want to hear the whole stuff
Marky
2024-07-08 14:27:10 +0000 UTCThere is a great one. Try searching it in collections.
Mizidora
2024-07-07 14:03:50 +0000 UTCThis was super informative. I never really thought about this, and it was the first time I heard someone talk about tangents. You are an amazing teacher. 👏
Mizidora
2024-07-07 14:02:26 +0000 UTCThanks for this wonderful tutorial 💜
Lisa
2024-07-07 08:29:50 +0000 UTCThis was so wonderfully helpful! I’m coming back to drawing after a bit of time away and all your videos have been SUCH a great sort of refresher course that’s helping me love my art again.
Abelle
2024-07-06 16:18:00 +0000 UTCThank you so much. I really loved one of my line work before coloring in and now I feel it looks flat. Your video came up right on time.
Sharon Tu
2024-07-06 04:53:03 +0000 UTCI’ve been waiting for this for so long!!!!!
stef
2024-07-06 00:28:46 +0000 UTCI swear your tutorials come at the perfect time for me! I was getting frustrated with the lack of depth my lines had! Thank you! This was a wonderful tutorial!♥️
Tracey.Bug
2024-07-05 17:16:06 +0000 UTCI needed this so bad. Your tutorials are like psychic insights into my bad art 🤣
Art Mancy 🔮
2024-07-05 14:03:00 +0000 UTCI'd love an in-depth tutorial about compositon! Unless I'm forgetting about one that was already done?
AppreciationOwl
2024-07-05 12:58:18 +0000 UTCI'm in the same boat as Luciavv, been thinking about how to improve my lineart so this is a very timely tutorial. Also those cheatsheets are gold! Thanks for always providing them!
Randomfraff
2024-07-05 09:21:24 +0000 UTCI was thinking about trying Lineart again and improve it , this came in the perfect moment, thanks for your work Loish 🥹💜
Luciavv
2024-07-05 09:18:56 +0000 UTC
