[image_with_animation image_url=”9488″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] This is the third part of a multi day series, sharing work by my beginning figure drawing classes. Many of these students have never taken a drawing class before, nearly all of them are new to figure drawing.
Rather than learning one style, we study a different approach every session. We’ve done straight line measures, site sizing, envelopes, kites, mass shapes, shadows, gestures, contours, volume, cross-hatching, and more. Today I’m posting a few of the silly ones. These are blind contour line drawings. The point with these is not to learn accurate proportions. Instead, blind contour line drawings teach us how to focus, and notice details. The line work gets more interesting because the artist is exercising intensely active curiosity in their subject for the duration of the drawing.
A drawing is a record of our focus.
Also, these drawings are silly, and silly is good.
The Kodak Model 1 Box camera sold for $25 (about $680 today) with 100 exposures of film preloaded. The artist only needed to point and pull the wire (pre-shutter button). …
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Beginner’s Drawings That’ll Knock Your Socks Off (Part 3)
[image_with_animation image_url=”9488″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] This is the third part of a multi day series, sharing work by my beginning figure drawing classes. Many of these students have never taken a drawing class before, nearly all of them are new to figure drawing.
Rather than learning one style, we study a different approach every session. We’ve done straight line measures, site sizing, envelopes, kites, mass shapes, shadows, gestures, contours, volume, cross-hatching, and more. Today I’m posting a few of the silly ones. These are blind contour line drawings. The point with these is not to learn accurate proportions. Instead, blind contour line drawings teach us how to focus, and notice details. The line work gets more interesting because the artist is exercising intensely active curiosity in their subject for the duration of the drawing.
A drawing is a record of our focus.
Also, these drawings are silly, and silly is good.
Enjoy.
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