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FUNDAMENTALS OF DRAWING
Contour Drawing: A drawing that uses one or a few lines to draw a subject. A contour drawing defines the edges, value changes, and surface changes of an object. You do not add value to a contour drawing.
Continuous Line Blind Contour: A drawing completed without lifting your pencil and without looking at your paper! However, you MUST be staring at the subject you are drawing. You are training your hands and eyes to move at the same speed.
Continuous Line Modified Contour: A drawing that is completed without lifting your pen/pencil. You may look at your paper briefly for reference, and you MUST be looking at what you are drawing.
Different Kinds of Contour Drawing
Blind Contour Rules
• Do NOT lift your pen.• Do NOT look at your paper
while you are drawing.• You MUST look at the object/person
you are drawing.• You must leave a trail
from one spot to the next!
Continuous Line Blind Contour
Hints: 1.Your eyes are like laser beams with
pencils on the end of the beam.2.Your eyes and pencil should move at
the same speed when drawing your subject.
3.Observes ALL surface edges, ridges, and color and value changes of an object.
4.DO NOT PEAK AT YOUR PAPER!!! 5.This is NOT about a “pretty” drawing!
Modified Contour Rules
• Do NOT lift your pen.• OK to look BRIEFLY at your paper.• You MUST look at the object/person
you are drawing.• You must leave a trail
from one spot to the next!
Continuous Line Modified Contour
Hints: 1.Your eyes are like laser beams with
pencils on the end of the beam.2.Your eyes and pencil should move at the
same speed when drawing your subject.3.Observes ALL surface edges, ridges, and
color and value changes of an object.4.Your eyes should be moving back and
forth like watching a tennis match…look at your paper, then look at your subject, paper, then subject, paper subject….
5.This is NOT about a “pretty” drawing!
SKETCHBOOK PAGES
Example: paper clip, eraser, or small still life object.Hand should be palm-up so you can see your bent fingers.
Focus on the curve of the fingers, not the object.
Continuous Line BLIND Contour
Draw your hand holding an object
On your Blind Contour page
It is OK if drawing overlaps the other things on that page
Draw two still life objects
Example: bottle of glue, pencil sharpener, scissors or stapler.Focus on the object do NOT PEEK at your paper!
On your BLIND Contour page
It is OK if drawing overlaps the other things on that page
Continuous Line BLIND Contour
Draw your hand
holding an objectExample: paper clip, eraser, small still life object.
Hand should be palm-up so you can see your bent fingers.Focus on the curve of your fingers, not the object.
On your MODIFIED Contour page
It is OK if drawing overlaps the other things on that page
Continuous Line Modified Contour
Draw two still life objects
Example: bottle of glue, pencil sharpener, toy, scissors or stapler.Focus on the object NOT your paper!
On your MODIFIED Contour page
It is OK if drawing overlaps the other things on that page
Continuous Line Modified Contour
1. Drawing is the coordination between eye, hand and mind.
2. Do not focus on your drawing (the paper). You must focus on the object you are drawing
3. Look at the object as if you have never seen it before. 4. Use the language of art when drawing:
● What does the shape look like?● Is the line horizontal or slanted?● Does a curve have a smile or a frown?● What is the distance between shapes?● Is the edge convex or concave?● How bumpy is the edge?● What are the shapes of the negative spaces
5. You must learn to draw lines and shapes; values and tones.
TOP 10 DRAWING TIPS
6. Your mind HAS the CAPABILITY to keep the information ONLY if you communicate about shapes, proportions, contours, or textures. 7. You must look at your object CONTINUALLY as you draw. DO NOT look once and then rely on your memory. 8. Drawing is a job for the eyes! It does not matter what you draw, but that you see things as lines, shapes, values, textures, and spaces; and that you compare distance and relationships between objects and shapes. 9. If you are having trouble with a specific area, focus on the negative space around the object. If working from a photo, hold the photo upside down.
10. Draw as if you know nothing about drawing: THINK: “There are only shapes that I see, and I can draw shapes. There is no such thing as knowing how to draw.”
TOP 10 DRAWING TIPS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL3LiR_pvsU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BlUBQmup-M
http://www.valleytech.k12.ma.us/Arts/Gallery10.htm
Blind Contour Tutorial. Use link with INTERNET EXPLORER
Student Samples - Award Winning Work with Continuous Line Contour Drawings
Famous works inspired byContinuous Line Contour Drawings
Artwork by Pablo PicassoWeeping Woman. 1937
Artwork by Pablo PicassoGirl Before A Mirror, 1937
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