Gesture drawing: a quick sketch of the subject to start laying in basic shapes and proportions.
Let's practice: using the images below spend 1 minute only laying in a quick gesture drawing of each.
Assignment: Gestures of the moving body.
Each group will need a model. The model will pose for 1 minute and then move a little bit. Your task is to capture the main shapes of the body you see. You will include 4 drawings per page.
Turn in 3 pages for a total of 12 gesture drawings for this practice.
Draw as large as you can.
Each group will need a model. The model will pose for 1 minute and then move a little bit. Your task is to capture the main shapes of the body you see. You will include 4 drawings per page.
Turn in 3 pages for a total of 12 gesture drawings for this practice.
Draw as large as you can.
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:
Contour drawing is creating a precise line drawing by drawing the individual consecutive parts of the form to arrive at the whole form. Blind means without looking at your paper while drawing with total concentration on the subject you are drawing. This problem is designed to improve your visual concentration.
Your Task:
#1 Blind contour drawing of your hand
#2 10 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 contour 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 touching your hand. Trace this first contour of your hand in every detail, feel as you draw.
1 30 minute drawing your surroundings
"Feeling" Your Way Around the Form
Blind contour drawing:
Contour drawing is creating a precise line drawing by drawing the individual consecutive parts of the form to arrive at the whole form. Blind means without looking at your paper while drawing with total concentration on the subject you are drawing. This problem is designed to improve your visual concentration.
Your Task:
#1 Blind contour drawing of your hand
#2 10 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 contour 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 touching your hand. Trace this first contour of your hand in every detail, feel as you draw.
1 30 minute drawing your surroundings
Examples below of contour drawings |