Blind Contour Art
The blind contour exercise in 7 steps a student s blind contour drawing of feet from the pacific university website.
Blind contour art. Select portraits pulled from 22 moleskines collected over the course of seven years. The artistic technique was introduced by kimon nicolaïdes in the natural way to draw and it is further popularized by betty edwards as pure contour drawing in the new drawing on the right side of the brain. Blind contour drawing is a favorite with drawing teachers to develop hand eye communication.
Use a different colour in each section. Even though you want to spend most of your time looking at the object you re drawing if you ever need to move your pencil to a new spot you can take a glance at your paper to make sure your aim is right. This book is a window in to the process and experience of blind contour portrait drawing.
Apply water carefully to avoid the colours becoming muddy. One piece of paper one mark making tool one interesting object. If that all sounds good to you read on for four ways to use blind contour drawing in your art.
A simple starting point. The student fixes their eyes on the outline of the. With watercolour pencils colour in the artwork.
Encourage students to blend colours and create tones press hard press light. Blind and partially blind contour drawing in art are variations on contour drawing. Contour drawing is essentially outline drawing and blind contour drawing means drawing the outline of the subject without looking at the paper while you re doing it.
Blind contour drawing is a drawing exercise where an artist draws the contour of a subject without looking at the paper. Using a lead pencil and the resource images students are to draw 3 or 4 blind contour drawings. Blind contour drawing is an excellent way to train the eye to draw what it really sees rather than what it thinks it sees.
Hundreds of our favorite portraits full page spreads of behind the scenes photography and space to explore drawing your own portraits. When creating a blind contour drawing an artist will only look at the object he is drawing and never at the pen. Modified contour drawing is similar to blind contour drawing but it lets you look at your paper every once in a while.
The end result doesn t matter so much that s not the point. Drawing through observation is a skill that most people are capable of learning says terry o day the chair of the art department at pacific university in forest grove oregon where the blind contour method is taught.
