Artist Jason Nicholas uses a continuous line like a ribbon that wraps around and ties a whole picture together, sometimes on the outside and sometimes woven through the drawing. He demonstrates the technique with bold black outlines to unify composition.
You may have seen me earlier, I took the red pen and I did an outline. Somewhere in my sketches, I like to do a continuous line. Um, sometimes it's on the outside, sometimes it's not. And for me, when I have a continuous line, it's almost like taking ribbon and wrapping it around a package to tie it together. So a continuous line for me visually is that ribbon that's tying the whole picture together. By the way, happy fall everybody! Fall is here, my favorite season. Love, love, love the fall. I don't love to fall, I love the fall. Big difference. So you can see I put that kind of black outline. I
