From the course: Sketching for Product Design and AEC

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The workhorses of sketching:

The workhorses of sketching:

From the course: Sketching for Product Design and AEC

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The workhorses of sketching:

- When discussing lines and their relative weights that help to differentiate them and communicate important information about the physical form there are three lines that do the lion share of the work, no pun intended. And they are the ghost line, which is used to build underlying structure, the scaffolding, the outline, which closes the border, so to speak, and the contour line, which delineates the interior. I want to focus on these three before discussing the other lines, because of their importance in the sketching process. We can't get a sketch started without committing lines, and so the first, and perhaps most essential is the ghost line, used to build the scaffolding. It does a lot of the heavy lifting, despite its weight, and gets little attention for it. In fact, it's literally meant to disappear when the other line weights have been adjusted. And yet, the ghost lines never truly disappear, they simply get absorbed into the sketch, which is very different than real…

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