Contour line drawing is a good starting lesson to begin an art course with. It's an excellent way to get your students to rely more on what they see and less on what they think they see. It's meant to turn off the part of their brain that causes them to draw objects based on what they've seen and not on what they are seeing in front of them. It's good to introduce students to blind contour drawing and help them to loosen up.
Concepts Students Will Learn About:
Outline
Contour Line (Blind & Modified)
How to Create Form using only Line
How to Improve Observational Drawing skills
Blind Contour Drawing
Blind contour drawing is one of the most basic drawing techniques and helps to build up students observational drawing skills. Blind contour is a basic drawing skill, which is why it's a good starting lesson to start a new class with. Essentially, the instructor will do a demo to show how to blind contour by showing students that you will be looking at an object and drawing it completely from observation without looking at your paper or picking up your pencil or pen. With this particular drawing shown above I drew my hand and did several attempts with different gestures, but students can use any object of their choosing or can even do a still life. The first time students draw blind contour they will feel very self confident about their drawings and deem them as "bad drawings", but this is a good way to get them out of their comfort zone and gets them to experiment with a new drawing technique that they have never used before.
Modified Blind Contour Drawing
After the students experiment with Blind contour it's good to get them to also get them into trying Modified blind contour drawing and having them look at the object their drawing 90% of the time but occasionally glancing at their piece of paper to redirect their marks. Once students have practiced blind and modified blind contouring they can move onto complete contour drawing.
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