Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.. Lines give birth to lines. Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.. Make a drawing flow, stopping sometimes, and going on.. Search for the simple constructive forces, line the lines of a suspension bridge. Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.. Have purpose in the places where lines stop. . Robert Henri
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Edward Hudson was a painter and sculptor who once said: "Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves. Lines give birth to lines. Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing. ...

Make a drawing flow, stopping sometimes, and going on. ... Search for the simple constructive forces, line the lines of a suspension bridge.

Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out. ... Have purpose in the places where lines stop." While we may think we know what we're doing while we're drawing, often times we don't really know what we're doing.

If you're like me you like to get under the hood and see what's going on under all that paint and patina and then eventually start to understand what's happening. There are so many different things going on in a drawing that it can be difficult to see the big picture, so to speak. In this quote, Hudson is encouraging us to pay attention to details and notice how they relate to each other so that we can see the bigger picture of how different parts work together as a whole.

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