Line Direction (2)

Line helps our eyes move through an image. This is one of the many functions of line.

This is a road in the New Mexico mountains. The road starts in the left corner where our eyes automatically go to. As the road moves, so does your eyes making them move through the photograph. As the road ends, your eyes move to the horizon line and follow that line.


This is a drawing of a roller coaster. Your eyes start at the left and follow the pole up the line and around the twists and turns the coaster creates. Simplified, the line is continuous and moves your eye throughout the composition.