Blind Contour Drawing

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Still Life Drawing, Drawing Class, Drawing Lessons, Drawing Techniques, Art Lessons, Drawing Tips, Contour Line Drawing, Blind Contour Drawing, Contour Drawings

Blind contour drawing Students draw 6-7 blind contour drawings of various objects, people or body parts. Various-sized boundaries are drawn around each drawing using cropping L's, activating the format (subject matter is touching at least 3 sides of the format), paying attention to the composition and focal point created in each image. 1 or 2 favorite drawings are chosen by the student and shapes are colored in using black (sharpie), white (paper), and gray (pencil). Line drawing is…

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Bre
Drawing Prompt, Drawing Class, Drawing Tools, Blind Contour Drawing, Face Drawing, Contour Drawings, New York Drawing, Teaching Projects, Art Projects

For the past week, I’ve been making a blind contour self-portrait — drawing without looking at the page — each morning to warm up my diary. If you look at the images in order, it looks like my face is re-arranging itself. I love that. My friend Wendy MacNaughton assigns these drawings in her workshops.

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ArtsyGirl5600
Observational Drawing, Gesture Drawing, Blind Contour Drawing, Contour Drawings, Continous Line Drawing, Contour Line Art, Art Sketches, Art Drawings, Drawing Faces

Since I posted my blind contour drawing yesterday on my blog (scroll down) I have been contacted by Peggy Stermer-Cox who hosts a "blind contour drawing" blog site! Who knew? How fun is that? The one to the left is the featured drawing right now (by Dan Haase). Click here to take look at this interesting blog! My first introduction to blind contour drawing as in Betty Edwards now famous book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. If you haven't tried it, take a minute. No rules. Just do not…

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Holt School Art Department
Line Art Projects, Middle School Art Projects, Art Lessons Middle School, Art Lessons Elementary, Contour Line Drawing, Blind Contour Drawing, Face Drawing, Contour Drawings, 7th Grade Art

When I was in college, my favorite warm-up exercises were always the blind contour drawings. For my birthday (September 10th), I signed up for Gritty Jane's Portraits and Papers class and our first lesson included blind contour portraits! I forgot how much I love doing them! Wheee!!! Don't forget to stop by Sophia's blog to see some serious Sunday Sketching sweetness!

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Nicole Frank

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