A look at Single Line Drawings - Drawings Made with Only 1 Line

It will not surprise you that I am a big fan of single line drawings. If you have never seen one, it a drawing made by putting your pen/pencil/other on the paper/screen and not picking it up until the drawing is complete. This makes for a very unique look to the artwork. The most complex have a lot of crossover lines, but a few of them, a unique few are single line drawings WITH NO CROSSOVER POINTS, making them technically meandering labyrinths ! Of course I could never imagine actually walking one of these or actually creating one in the real world, but it would be epic ! Maybe this is the evolution of the decorative corn maze ?

While this did not make the list initially, it would make a great addition to my list of 13 Unique Types of Art You Need to See to Believe.

Let’s look at a few examples:

Tell me this single line drawing doesn’t look like a maze ! I found this on flickr, by Xandriss Single Line Artist. Really cool and I think it is a labyrinth !

Here is a more common look in black and white shown in video form by Katie Acheson Wolford:

How about some Star Wars ? Yes please ! By Sam Hallows. C3PO, and many more you can see here on this trend site !

Sergej Stoppel - the founder of LinesLab an experimental design studio that explores algorithmic art and robotics. You can see his images on this bored panda article, or read his reddit about his various art projects.

And here is a quick video on how to make a one line drawing: