Contour drawing, is an artistic technique used in the field of art in which the artist sketches the contour of a subject by drawing lines that result in a drawing that is essentially an outline; the French word contour meaning, or an "outline"
Contour Drawing Exercise 1:
"Feeling" Your Way Around the Form
Blind contour drawing:
Countour drawing is creating a precise line drawing by drawing the indiviual consecutive parts of the form to arrive at the whoe form. Blind means without looking at your paper while draing with total concentration on the subject you are drawing. This problem is designed to improve your visual concentration.
Your Task:
1 20 minute drawing using your hand as the model
keep in mind that you must draw with a confident line and not a sketchy one. Your line must flow with the contours of your hand. You are starting with one of the most difficult form to draw, so don't get discouraged. You will start the drawing by placing or posing your hand where you are going to start the drawing, look at your paper, and place your pencil on your paper in that position. Now look back at your hand , begin to move your eyes along the countour as you move your pencil on the paper. Do not look at your paper. Move the pencil on the paper imagining that the pencil point is actually thouching your hand. Trace this first contour of your hand in every detail, feel as you draw.
1 30 minute drawing your surroundings
1 40 minute drawing everyone is drawing the same object at your table
Remeber these are BLIND CONTOURS! You should not be looking at your papers
"Feeling" Your Way Around the Form
Blind contour drawing:
Countour drawing is creating a precise line drawing by drawing the indiviual consecutive parts of the form to arrive at the whoe form. Blind means without looking at your paper while draing with total concentration on the subject you are drawing. This problem is designed to improve your visual concentration.
Your Task:
1 20 minute drawing using your hand as the model
keep in mind that you must draw with a confident line and not a sketchy one. Your line must flow with the contours of your hand. You are starting with one of the most difficult form to draw, so don't get discouraged. You will start the drawing by placing or posing your hand where you are going to start the drawing, look at your paper, and place your pencil on your paper in that position. Now look back at your hand , begin to move your eyes along the countour as you move your pencil on the paper. Do not look at your paper. Move the pencil on the paper imagining that the pencil point is actually thouching your hand. Trace this first contour of your hand in every detail, feel as you draw.
1 30 minute drawing your surroundings
1 40 minute drawing everyone is drawing the same object at your table
Remeber these are BLIND CONTOURS! You should not be looking at your papers