Ligne Claire
リーニュ・クレール / 1929– / Style / Illustration Styles
The uniform-outline style Hergé established in Tintin: no cast shadows, every element drawn with the same weight of line — a democratic picture plane that made clarity itself an aesthetic.
Uniform-weight outlines / The absence of shadow / Flat color / Background and figure treated equally
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Hergé's Tintin / Joost Swarte's naming / the contemporary clear-line lineage