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Intro to Contour
The document provides an agenda and overview for a contour drawing lesson. It begins by reviewing left and right brain thinking, explaining that contour drawing involves outlining the edges of forms without looking at the paper. Examples of contour lines and maps are shown. Students will do blind contour drawings of hands and portraits of each other, tracing the outlines without lifting their pencils and not looking at the paper. The goal is to focus on details and proportions through this exercise.
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Intro to Contour
- 2. Thursday, March 22,2012 Agenda: 1)Review Right and Left Brain Thinking 2) What is contour drawing? 3) Contour slideshow/youtube 4) Looking at objects 5)Blind contour drawings
- 3. Right and LeftBrain Thinking Review • Your brain cannot focus on more than one thing at a time. • Left brain thinking is logical, rational, analytical, objective and looks at parts. • Right brain thinking is random, intuitive, holistic and subjective. • We use both modes of thinking all the time, together and independently and we use each mode to interpret the other mode. • We can train our brains to see from a right brained perspective. • Your logical mind (left brain) will not accurately portray an object on paper because it will assign a label to the object and attach a restrictive image of said object in your mind. Fortunately, your visual mind will see the very same subject as a series of shapes, lines, dark shading and light shading that intersect in ways and combine to create the whole.
- 4. Contour drawing: Anoutline drawing that represents the Contour edge of a form. Contour lines: Lines that define the edges, ridges, or outline of a shape or form. Blind contour drawing: The artist slowly draws each bump and curve of the edges of an object without looking at the paper.
- 5. Contour Map: Whatdo the lines tell us? The line that goes across an object, hinting at the form, is called a cross- contour. The first thing we do when beginning to draw is contour drawing, which is another name for drawing the outline. With contour drawing, we are focusing on the edges - the outside of an object or the line made by a fold or pattern.
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- 7. Now let’s lookand see. •Pick out an object in this room. •Follow the surfaces of that object with your eyes. •Imagine tracing a pencil over the surfaces of the object. Blind Contour Drawing Blind contour drawing is an exercise in concentrating on the contours of an object and to avoid looking at the paper. The paper plate blinds can help you with this. You should not look at your drawing until you are finished. To create your blind contour drawing, imaging that the point of your pencil is actually travelling along the contours of your object. Slowly move your pencil on the paper, inch by inch, over the landscape of your object paying close attention to changes in direction and surface details. Assignment #1 Your hand. Don’t lift your pencil from the paper. Blind contour drawing will help you to observe more closely the structure of your hand and will make you more sensitive to detail. You will also capture proportions and develop a connection between your hand and the parts of your brain that help you to see the whole image of your subject.
- 8. Remember that blindcontour drawings will often appear distorted. Assignment #2 Your classmates. You will create blind contour drawings of your classmates. Find a partner. Take turns do blind contour portraits of one another. You will have 5-10 minutes for each drawing. Remember, don’t look at the paper and don’t lift your pencil from the paper until you are finished. Here are some more examples: