Most were blind contour sketches where I didn't take my eyes off of the subject, not looking at the paper. Aren't they comical looking! Contour drawing is actually to be done very, very slowly, barely moving the pencil while looking at the small area being drawn. Concentrating solely on that area before moving on to the next area.
In the book by Kimon Nicolaides, "The Natural Way to Draw", his first exercises are on contour drawing and recommends 1/2 hour for one drawing. Obviously, I didn't take that time with yesterday's sketches but plan to today, if I can make myself draw that slow.
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These are so much fun! Do draw as slowly as you possibly can, allowing your eye to carefully inspect the line you're drawing, searching for any changes, cuves, bumps, etc. that it can find so you can draw it. Go SLOW. It's a right brain thing. Your left brain wants you to hurry. SHHHHH, left brain.
This type of drawing lets us loose - we sooo want to be perfect and we cannot possibly be that way when drawing like this. It's fun, releases us a bit - and you can combine several and do an abstracted painting with them when done (like Sandy did with her pomegranates).
Thanks Sandy and Rhonda for commenting. I chuckled when I read "SHHHHH, left brain." Maybe I need to try this upside down, except I just can't stand on my head, just kidding. I will try a photograph upside though to see what happens.
Ann,
They look a lot better than most of my drawings.
Love,
Linda
lol Linda, I doubt that but thanks.
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