Blind Contour Drawing

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…

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…

Linus Schief, owner of Warm Shape at the MSA Annex, creates blind contour portraits by only looking at the subject and never looking down at the paper while she draws.

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Plant: A Blind Contour All throughout my years in art school, I hated blind contour drawing. Forcing myself to sit in focused silence was truly painful. However, recently I've begun to see its value. Forcing me to focus on the process over the product, has made me a better artist.

Introduction Blind contours are a great way to loosen kids up and help them not be apprehensive about drawing. This drawing method is als...

Before you start this artwork, I would suggest you talk to students about the difference between various drawing techniques. I got th...

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Happy New Year, and welcome to the first day of our 30 day challenge! For this first project, we’ll have you warm up and introduce yourself with a delightfully odd looking portrait. Blind contour drawing is an exercise in which an artist draws the contours of a subject without looking at the paper. The technique was introduced by Kimon Nicolaïdes in The …

What is a blind contour? lb2011 A Blind contour drawing is done when the artist looks intently at EDGES of an object, but never looks at the paper while the pencil moves. We call it “blind” because we are not allowed to look at the drawing paper while the pencil mov...

Learn what blind contour drawing is, the benefits of doing it, how to do it, and types of contour drawing.

Today in art class our teacher did a fun exercise with us where we had to capture the pose of a model in 30 seconds. It sounded completely impossible. But with things like contour and gesture drawing, it’s possible – and it looks really cool, too. With contour drawing, the point is to find the […]

Hey everyone! I’ve been creating art for a while. In fact, in a few short months it’ll be coming up on two years that I’ve been seriously creating art. Since I started, I’ve…

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