How's your week been? Me, I finished AP's! Yayyyy! Well, AP. Since I only took one. But I'm done now! Yayyyyyy! Now I have free time! Except not really. Portfolio, man. Okay, enough of this.
So I'm going to talk about this fun exercise. Blind contour drawing.
What is a contour?
Well, basically, it's an edge. Some people call it an outline. But, it's a little bit more than that. I learned it as what you see when a surface curves away from you.
So cool! Like the outline of your arm, it curves away from you, so it's a contour! Very cool.
So a contour drawing is when you just draw the contours of something. Whoa there.
So contour drawings look something like this.
Pretty neat, right?
So a blind contour drawing is when you draw without looking at your paper. A modified contour is when you can take peeks.
The important thing about blind contour drawing is that you connect your eye to the pencil. So as you slowly move your eye along the contour, your pencil is doing the same thing on the paper. But never look at the paper! So the end result's going to look pretty weird. But that's okay!
Here's a good video. Very informative, but I wish it was more exciting.
Yup, so some examples.
Everything is all over the place.
So try it out! Have fun! It's a good way to loosen up your mind and get rid of all expectations. Do it!
Seeyaaa!
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