Are Your Drawings Expressive Enough?

There are many drawings on show in some of the top museums in the country, many of them are expressionless and boring. Few of the old master's drawings are in this category.

So how can we make our drawings more expressive with an emotional message?

There are many ways of course--from the quality of your lines, thick or thin, light or dark or even the length can have an impact on the overall statement. The subject matter does make a difference, if it is the same old stuff regurgitated you are not going to create much impact.

Great drawings have to have a cohesion between the form being drawn to how it is being drawn. That also implies the quality of line you have used to express the emotions.

A jerky line can be expressionless whereas a bold line has character...there's no doubt a timid line can be expressive against a bold line to give the latter more strength.