12/27/2023 0 Comments Contour sketchesIn particular, the way that the sun creates the highlights, as well as the lowlights by creating shadows. So, I did a quick lesson to help them understand not just observation, but also light and dark. The girls had particularly enjoyed using charcoal. In our last practice sketch, they used a sharpie pen to copy the still life using both blind and continuous drawing: Contour Drawing: Exploring Charcoal In this I think they did well:Īnd the more they practice, the more accurate they will become. The aim of these drawings is not to look like a mirror copy of the still life, but to resemble it enough that one can tell what it is. Poor Becca did not like this at all! She felt very much at the whim of her hand rather than hand and eye. This trains the artist in observation skills. These were their sketches: Contour Drawing: Blind Drawingsīlind drawings are when the artist draws the outline of the still life without ever actually looking at their paper: It trains the artist hand/eye co-ordination. They needed to do a simple outline of the still life without ever lifting the pencil off the paper. There first drawing was a simple continuous drawing in pencil. With my fingers I showed them the ellipses, and how the outline of each item looked. I showed them how to see the drawing – not to just glance and then draw what they thought they saw, but to really study the still life. I set up a simple still life of a jug and vase: We were all set for the first lesson! Contour Drawings: Continuous Drawing I ordered some heavy weight A3 art paper, two sharpies, a pack of pencils of different hardness and charcoal: I bought in new supplies so I didn’t have to rely on Lillie actually knowing where her supplies are.
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