Ink can be more intense than pencil or chalk, etc. Vertical lines are unstable and suggest poise and aspiration. Soaring diagonals can suggest effort or release from difficulty. Plunging diagonals can suggest falling or loss of control or speed. Chaotic or unorganized lines can suggest disorder, chaos, frantic feelings.
Circular lines can suggest safety, contentment, serenity.
D. Types of Line controlled line is continuous and even in thickness, resulting in a feeling of order, perhaps rigidity spontaneous line is broken and uneven in thickness, resulting in feelings of playfulness and activity, suggesting something still in process. C. Uses of Shape To suggest movement by its placement on the page in a diagonal or on the far right, top edge of the page, by the fluidity of the line with which it is formed, by its lack of symmetry. Large shapes are more powerful than small shapes and appear closer, as do dark, heavily textured shapes and those of warm, intense colors. When shapes overlap, the one you can see more of appears closer than the one more covered up. Round shapes are softer than angular ones.