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Workload<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=“4.16″ locked=“off“ global_colors_info=“{}“]<\/p>\n Intersecting lines help to visually narrow down the right line.<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=“1_2″ _builder_version=“4.16″ custom_padding=“|||“ global_colors_info=“{}“ custom_padding__hover=“|||“][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=“1″ specialty=“on“ padding_top_2=“0px“ admin_label=“Course Chapters“ _builder_version=“4.16″ background_color=“rgba(0,1,10,0.05)“ background_image=“https:\/\/sketchanddraw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/rule03.png“ background_size=“initial“ background_position=“bottom_right“ custom_margin=“|||“ custom_padding=“0px||1px|||“ global_colors_info=“{}“][et_pb_column type=“2_3″ specialty_columns=“2″ _builder_version=“4.16″ custom_padding=“|||“ global_colors_info=“{}“ custom_padding__hover=“|||“][et_pb_row_inner use_custom_gutter=“on“ gutter_width=“4″ _builder_version=“4.16″ custom_margin=“-80px|||“ custom_padding=“0px|||“ global_colors_info=“{}“][et_pb_column_inner saved_specialty_column_type=“2_3″ _builder_version=“4.16″ custom_padding=“|||“ global_colors_info=“{}“ custom_padding__hover=“|||“][et_pb_blurb title=“Artists always work with more than one line in their search for form, because these false lines, which may be fine at the beginning, help to guide you to your own imagination“ url=“#“ image=“https:\/\/sketchanddraw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/icon_pad.png“ admin_label=“Chapter“ _builder_version=“4.19.4″ animation_style=“zoom“ box_shadow_style=“preset2″ locked=“off“ global_colors_info=“{}“]Understand why the wrong lines also help to create a good sketch and why the eraser is the sketcher’s worst enemy. [\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_text _builder_version=“4.16″ _module_preset=“default“ locked=“off“ global_colors_info=“{}“]<\/p>\n Watch the film to learn about the third rule.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_video src=“https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZGohWPSPBUw“ _builder_version=“4.20.0″ _module_preset=“default“ global_colors_info=“{}“][\/et_pb_video][et_pb_toggle title=“Script“ _builder_version=“4.19.4″ _module_preset=“default“ locked=“off“ global_colors_info=“{}“]<\/p>\n Hello, happy sketching!<\/p>\n Why do we work with crossing lines? Again I have here the sketch of Rembrandt’s rider.<\/p>\n We have already sketched it in the second rule with the bundle of strokes. If the lines run in bundles, they should not run parallel, because parallel lines capture an object in its form.<\/p>\n They parallelise, they paralyse literally.<\/p>\n But how do you guide the lines\u00a0 in bundles?<\/p>\n Well, that is actually very simple. The individual lines in the bundle will and should even cross each other. 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The third rule can thus be applied at the point of the sketch’s creation process, when we slowly approach the end, wondering if we can recognize and understand what is there.<\/p>\n Then a deliberately placed line that crosses with another approximately set line at the best point can be a great precision.<\/p>\n Happy sketching!<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_divider divider_position=“center“ _builder_version=“4.4.7″ custom_margin=“20px||20px||false|false“ custom_padding=“||0px|||“ global_module=“48171″ saved_tabs=“all“ locked=“off“ global_colors_info=“{}“][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=“4.16″ _module_preset=“default“ custom_padding=“31px|20px|4px|0px|false|false“ global_colors_info=“{}“]<\/p>\n You can see it very well on the left side of the horse’s body, the draftsman narrowed down the shape of the horse with crossing lines. 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Crossing lines help to visually narrow down the correct line.<\/p>\n
Through the crossing a fixed reference point is given, which guides the eye. In this way, the viewer is given concise information from two or more discrete pieces of information.<\/p>\n
etching, h 81mm \u00d7 w 58mm (Rijksmuseum.nl)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nStudy with laying horse, George Hendrik Breitner, 1881 – 1883<\/h6>\n