Drawing

An artist's handling of edges is one of the drawing basics and of great importance if a drawing is to be convincing.   Tartar Huntsmanby Peter Paul Rubens, ca. 1616, black chalk heightened with white, 15 1/16 x 10 9/16. Collection The Fizwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England.You can see how many of Rubens’ lines start out straight in this preliminary drawing done in the middle of the artist’s career. Contour lines are a useful lie a draftsman uses to indicate the edge of a form in a line drawing. In truth, we don’t see a line marking the edge of a…