Again, blind contour is using lines to draw the outside edges of the shapes seen in an object WITHOUT looking at your paper. This is a great exercise to practice looking at objects and focusing in on truly seeing that object and not just drawing what we think it should look like. The result often looks like a spaghetti mess.
Like my younger class this morning, some of our results today are a little too good. I have cheaters again! Although, I must admit that when I do blind contours, I am extremely tempted to look at my paper too! :-) Here are the blind contours from this class today—
After not allowing my students to look at their paper while they drew, I released them from their torture and asked these student to try real contour. This time they could look at their paper.
Drawing contour drawings that have good proportions can be very challenging! These students had to practice much patience and were encouraged to slowly follow the edges of these objects with their eyes and to use their pencils replicate those same paths on paper.
For those students that finished a bit early or who needed a break from contours, I demonstrated my scribble method to draw trees. This was a nice release from the strict style of contours as we could go a bit wild with our disorderly scribbles. Using our array of pencils, I used dark and light values to give my tree a bit of depth as I demonstrated the scribble tree technique—
Here are a couple of the fun results from our students.—
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