Last week in class we warmed up to drawing again by doing several gesture drawings. The quick lines that we drew are quite the opposite of what we will be doing when we are creating contour drawings. We will look carefully at the edges of our subject and draw slowly.
Mona Brookes, author of Drawing for Older Children and Teens, writes:
"By following what appears to be the outline edges of an object, you can create an impression of it. Contour Drawing is a style of realistic drawing, but it doesn't capture the kind of three-dimensionality that you can achieve with shading."
Below notice the way Pablo Picasso uses a line to represent most of the edges of the figure below. He tried to keep the correct proportions and successfully portrays the physical characteristics of the model. Learning how to create contour drawings is a fundamental skill that all artists should develop. Your in class assignment is to create several contour drawings of your hand.
We will also try a couple Blind Contour drawings. This is when you draw using one continous line and do not look at your paper. something without looking at your paper using
Class assignment: Draw a contour drawing of the vase will flowers. Try very hard to just draw a edges with a line. Do not shade in at all! Think about the negative and positive space on your paper. As yourself where you are going to place the bottom of the vase on your paper so you still have room for the top of the flower. Think about proportions (the size relationships of the parts of the flower and the vase).
Sketchbook Assignment: Do 1 contour drawing of your foot and two drawings of whatever you like: Due 3/1
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