Is that slight indentation enough to warrant a line? How many of those folds need to be recorded?ДЇor this exercise, youвЂ™re going to need either a digital drawing program with layers, or, if youвЂ™re working traditionally, a printed out image that you want to draw from, and either a light table (if you have a glass table and a desk lamp, this is easy enough to rig up) or a window with outside light. AvoidВ вЂњhairy lines.вЂќДЄn important part of contour drawing is deciding what contours to draw. Feel out your range, and let it be fluid, without overthinking it. Push down harder and darker, or thin and barely there draw lines that go from dark to light and light to dark try to draw as many kinds of lines as possible. And as you draw, try varying your line weight. Give yourself a big page to work on let your lines be long and loose, not short, cramped things. Just loosen up, and start drawing lines - go abstract with it.

To start, donвЂ™t draw anything in particular. Recommended media: Well-sharpened but soft-leaded pencil (something on the B side of the HB scale), pen & ink, digital stylus with pressure sensitivity enabled. Consider what information you can tell from the image on the right that isnвЂ™t presented in the image on the left, though both are of the same subject, and have lines in the same places. The image to the right, however, has varied line weight.

The image to the left has uniform line weight throughout the entire drawing. You can communicate a lot of information just by changing up the weight of your lines.

Thicker, heavier lines have weight to them, and can suggest a more pronounced area of depth, or an area of shadow.

A thin, delicate, even disappearing line might indicate a very shallow edge, like a small wrinkle in a figureвЂ™s clothing.В It can also indicate that the area it is contouring is an area of highlight.

You can also convey depth and form, however, as well as light and shadow, with line weight:

This is a way to render 3d form without the use of shading. Continuous contour can be done while looking at oneвЂ™s work, or without, in the case of blind contour.Д¬ross-contour uses lines in an almost mesh-like fashion to show depth and form вЂ“ like a topographical map. One is continuous contour, where a drawing is made with a single continuous line, never lifting from the page. There are a few different styles of contour drawing. All the information in the drawings is conveyed with line. The outline doesnвЂ™t refer solely to the exterior outline, such as weвЂ™d see framing a silhouette, but also to outlines of interior details, such as folds of cloth or curls of hair. The following are all contour, or linework drawings: But in this lesson, I promise, weвЂ™ll actually be able to look at what weвЂ™re doing (though if you want to go back and give the blind contour exercise another go, itвЂ™s never bad practice). In drawing, a contour refers to вЂњan outline, especially one representing or bounding the shape or form of something.вЂќ We got a little bit of practice with this when we did the blind contour exercise in lesson two. Chesterton puts it,В вЂњdrawing the line somewhere.вЂќ More specifically вЂ“ drawing in contour. In this weekвЂ™s lesson, we are going to talk about, as G. Some artists use contour drawing to warm up for a drawing session.вЂњArt, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.вЂќ

Blind contour drawing trains the eye and hand to work as a team, and it helps students to see all of the details of the object. Blind contour drawing may not produce a lifelike drawing however, it helps students to draw more realistically, rather than relying on their memorized drawing symbols. The left mode of the brain rejects meticulous, complex perception of spatial and relational information, consequently permitting the right brain to take over. Edwards suggests that pure contour drawing creates a shift from left mode to right mode thinking. He suggested that the technique improves students' drawings because it causes students to use both senses of sight and touch. NicolaГЇdes instructs students to keep the belief that the pencil point is actually touching the contour. NicolaГЇdes and Edwards propose different ideas of why blind contour drawing is an important method of drawing for art students. Blind Contour Drawing of a young Japanese Maple tree Importance

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