The next few slides show samples of the snarling animal option to this exercise. Samples of hand drawings, (Note one only shows one hand with zentangle. And next let us look at the ASL alphabet to see how we can form letters to spell a word.ĭo not forget, there are lines where the bones meet within the hand.
Lets look at some x-rays and anatomy drawings. Where do folds and wrinkles show up? Where and how do the joints of the fingers bend. You first need to think about the anatomy of the hand.Samples of these are at the end of the slide show. In this exercise you will draw him in ink then go back in with pencil to shade the wrapping and use colored pencil for the eyes and mouth. This is where you draw a snarling animal and wrap him like a mummy. For those of you who feel a bit more confident you can try the animal contour line wrap. Your choices are to either draw a contour line drawing of several hands showing ASL ( American sign language) You have to spell a word of 3 or more letters (school appropriate please)! Fill you page around your words with zentangle patterns or art like your first assignment. Samples of these projects are at the end of the slide show. In this project you will have two choices depending on how you feel about your drawing skills and your comfort level. This will be done with ink and colored pencil. Why you may ask? To get you to look only at shape and line and to ignore the content all together. Next we will draw an image upside down.We will then for the fun of it try a blind contour drawing of your hand.One will be a class practice of first drawing a continuous contour line of your hand.Line drawings by John Lennon, 1940 - 1980Ĭontour line lesson unit in sequence… There will be 3 exercises we will do on copier paper to start. These rarely look real but can be very expressionistic by show movement and force of line.Ĭontour line drawing with thick and thin lines: You look at the object you are drawing with out looking at the drawing itself. A blind contour drawing is an exercise that can be rather difficult. A continuous-line drawing, the artist looks both at the subject and the paper, moving the medium over the paper, and creating a silhouette of the object with out ever lifting the drawing medium off the page as you draw. Thick lines bring the form forward and thin lines make them recede. Good contour drawings use a variety of line thickness to show what is forward and what is behind. A contour drawing has a 3-dimensionalquality, indicating the thickness as well as height and width of the forms it describes. There are several types of contour line drawings. It is widely accepted among schools, art institutions, and colleges as an effective training aid and discipline for beginner artists. Its objective is to capture the life, action, or expression of the subject. The purpose of contour drawing is to emphasize the mass and volume of the subject rather than the detail.The French word contour means, “outline.”.
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