Artists
Related: About this forumSketch Artists, how many lines is necessary to capture a complicated face ?
Ordinary pen or pencil.
Looking for the general minimum to start. Samples welcome.
The reason i ask is to be prepared if I attend some festivals and if i talk to artists.

Beastly Boy
(12,046 posts)But the fewer lines you use, the more difficult it becomes. At some point you literally need to be an effing genius to pull it off.
(That's Picasso's sketch below, next to the photo of the subject).
Tetrachloride
(8,666 posts)anybody else with a sample ?
Tanuki
(15,826 posts)sketches. He had a gift for capturing someone in a few lines.
Tetrachloride
(8,666 posts)Ty all. this answers the first round of this topic
Trailrider1951
(3,514 posts)This is the cover of Joni Mitchell's album "Ladies of the Canyon". Artwork by Ms. Mitchell.
Ms. Mitchell, sometime in the 1960's:
Tetrachloride
(8,666 posts)My goal is to acquire illustrations which are not too
exact.
My strategy includes few lines.
Faces are an entirely different approach from my previous illustrated writings.