FINALLY, a clear explanation of line weight. I've had people tell me for years that I need to learn to "vary my line weight", and I never understood what it meant until now.

He crossed the line this time. Edit: Thank you, never had 123 likes

Dave straight up made a commission-quality illustration just for this tutorial. If that doesn’t show how legendary he is, idk what will. Thanks so much for this video!!

Thank you Dave again for great video. Because of you this world will have great new generation of artists. Thank you for your teaching us. You are source of knowledge even for poor people who cant spent money for course and school to follow their art dream. But you are making our dreams real ... now its just on us to work hard to gain what we want. Thank you Dave you are amazing. God bless you.

Memories... I'm thinking about that old studio in Mira Mesa and how Marc (Silvestri) and Scott (Williams) used to sit next to each other in that office. It was great for me, because I'd go to get advice from Scott and wind up getting a lesson from Marc too about half the time. They both got together for a few minutes one afternoon and explained this to me. Great stuff. I've already sent a couple people who regularly ask me questions a link to this video. You're giving away GOLD over here, David! Thanks for what you do.

2 minutes in and youve given me better information on line-weight than ive been able to find on any more popular channel on youtube! Awesome stuff! Thank you!

This is the perfect example of using line weights!! 🔥💯

THE legendary intro of david finch.🔥🔥🔥LOVE IT

I really appreciate the simple explanation, sometimes when you try and research this type of stuff it’s too easy to get bogged down in the big details.

Get this guy 1 million subscribers 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏

Yes! Yes! Yes! Can’t wait to watch this when I get home from school. 🔥🔥🔥

I'd been wondering about line weights for a long time. Appreciate that you've covered them here.

Yes! Another great tutorial! Hope you’re feeling better Dave!

Best Art Teacher of All Time.

As a classically trained draftsman, I love the use of the lead holder! My first paying drafting job was all board drafting, and I used a combination of lead holders and Koh-I-Noor mechanical pencils of various line weights. For very similar reasons. But instead of light, it was dimension. Object lines were thicker to denote the edge of a surface, whereas hatch lines were thinner to denote the material was cut, and you were seeing the inside of it. Centerlines and dimension lines were among the thinnest to denote that they were imaginary lines no present on the material, used for dimensioning only. Etc etc.. Great stuff!

One of the best comic artisits and educators you can find on the whole yt.

Hero F.. great life lesson, thanks for your time, see you Monday.. bye'eeee..

ABSOLUTELY helpful!!! Thank you very much, Mr. Finch!

I have brought your course when it came out about 10yrs ago and this was the concept which made my drawing a lot better as I always wondered why my drawing looked flat even tho it has shadowing in it. Thanks again. P.S: you also showed this to me personally when you were in the Calgary expo and I was waiting for my V for vendetta commission from you. Thanks again for being such an awesome guy and great artist

Dang!!!!! This seems so simple but i never took enough time to really do this and he's right, my sketches looked so FLAT.

This video is right on time. Was about to start looking for line weight tutorials.

Another great video with great information. Hope you are well Dave

Excellent. Thank you. 👌🏿💎

Can’t thank you enough Dave. Taking your time to pass on such immensely helpful knowledge is wildly appreciated

Thank you David! This is truly such a useful even necessary concept to learn, blessings for you and your family

This is gold! To get all this amazing content from such a great artist is a real privilege. Thank you, Dave!

David finch your art is incredible thank you ✨✨✨

This is amazing!

good to see you on here Dave. Glorious content.

That simple shape tutorial explained it all... then watching it in practice was really enlightening.

Dave, these video's are very helpful! Thank you

Great vid!!! Thanks

Another great video! Thanks.

absolutely love this vid dave!! would seriously love more like this

I remember seeing tutorials on lineart that usually talk about using line weight to show the difference in volume/emphasis between the parts that compose the figure/object/etc. It's a very useful understanding, but I often got myself lost in the middle of the process, trying to guess if I should - or not - make the line thicker at some point, and it always felt some sort of logic was missing. Well, it was indeed: the line weight being guided by the light source. I'm going to watch it again and take notes, this is going to be a new lineart exercise for sure! Thank you, David :] Oh, and I always loved to get a comic with your art! But I don't remember seeing this channel before. Now I have a lot to watch around here hahaha

Fantastic Dave love this

Holly molly, that last part, the different line weight in foreground - middle ground - backround, now i realized why my drawings felt so flat because i use the same lineweight throughout the whole drawing/panel, i have a hard time making the drawing focus on the character, instead my eyes always focused on something else sometimes the backround kinda more stand out, thank you so much dave, much love

My linework has been incredibly challenging, so thank you for explaining why this is absolutely vital for good drawings, and how it's basically the same as simple shading. I didn't even realize it, but I was accidentally following this technique when I was much younger and tracing comics.

Great art work

Thank you so mich. This short video teached me alot. Line weight is something I neglected alot

David, thanks.😊

Thanks Dave! You the man

This was so great and helpful David thank you again for another incredible guide.

Thank you so much!

Thank you mr finch for being my inspiration 🙏🏿

I've been struggling so much with line weight. This demystified aspects that I struggled with. Thank you so much !

This was very helpful! thank you

great tutorial thanks!

Thank you for this tutorial this is so helpful 😊

Amazing video, you're one of the GOATS Mr finch fr

yes thank you..cuz I have no idea 🤣 also where to put shading.

Thank you so much for this. Hope you feel better.

This video was just what i need, i love you

this was great thanks.

Thank you again!

Another fantastic video as always! I've been trying to get line thickness down better, and this guide really helps. While I agree its not talked as much in many western youtube art channels, I do find japanese art channels focus heavily on it! :D

Oh my God this broke down a concept that I've struggled with for over a decade. Thank you for the simple explanation and examples!

loving all of the tutorials you've released this year, keep up the good work. Could you do a video on shape design?

A thousand thank yous, sensei 🙏🙏🙏

Beautifully explained

Yes, lightweights I’ve been struggling so much wit this thank you Dave !!! 😊😊

Thank you very much for this. It was very helpful.

This video is a game-changer for me. Thanks, David!

Thank you so much Sir Marcel

Easy trick to make your drawing look really cool. Making an object look 3d without shading, given line weight is a form of shading. Definitely got the dopamine flowing!!!

This helped clear A LOT of things up!

This was extremely helpful, thank you so much for this breakdown.

this legend is such a great teacher

Thanks for the informative video. You are truly a great ambassador for the industry.

Using the weight of the lines to make the picture stand out even more.... It's good.😄

Excellent tutorial, David. AGL

One of the best art instruction videos on KZfaq!!!!

This was extremely helpful. Thanks, sir!

This is one of the most useful drawing videos I've seen (and I've watched a LOT!). Thanks so much for this, David.

Needed this. Have been trying to get better at my inking and this was a great lesson. Posting videos of my learning!

Great video, Dave. Very simply explained and easy to implement. Thanks for sharing.

Amazing🔥🔥

Once again thanks for making these videos Dave. I’ve learned so much from watching ur videos and I can’t thank u enough.

Glad I found this vid. Been struggling a little with my shadowing. Awesome tutorial and thanks for the video.

This was pure gold, i think now i understand shadows amd volume a lot more 🙏🙏

Thanks for another video dave As an art teacher that dreams of being able to draw comics all day one day, these things give me hope to keep learning and going

Awesome stuff! This was very helpful and gave me ideas on how to approach it in clip studio

That's such an awesome drawing, feels so solid.

Thanks David I always learn something new from your videos, goes to show that no matter how long you have been at it there is always more to learn. 37yrs and still learning, this is what I love about art and design.

Good video enjoyed and learnt something new

Fantastic 😊

Great video. Everyone benefits. It's amazing how much form that something as simple as line weight gives. One way to create greater dimension with line weight is to use the concept of ambient occlusion. When objects are close to one another, light gets trapped and the light dims.

learning how to ink & this video helps immensely!!! Thank you

Thanks you You doing gods work

Thank you master.

Really useful Information for a beginner.

This just came intuitively to me when I began to draw.

I appreciate this explanation because when people were trying to explain this before they really did not do anything this simple and easy to understand.

This is honestly gold, and CRUCIAL knowledge. I haven't found this info anywhere so thank you so much for your contributions to the locus of knowledge that's out there. And for FREE at that.

Dave gives more of an art education in these videos that any of my art teachers ever did at school

One of the best in the bizz.. for alot of reasons. Thank u sir david!!!

Thanks Dave! Super helpful, great job man.

Coloring ur works has changed my coloring skills thanks for the amazing lines I'll keep making ur cool work even cool thank u dave fin

Thanx! Helps a lot!

i actually already do this by nature when drawing. But this is still great advice. Nice work as always, mr. Finch. 😊👍