You can of course adapt or expand them as ideas come to you. These ideas are simple and use a minimal amount of materials.
Play with the size of the area you tape off, or try leaving more than one area untaped for further abstractifying. Set up your object in front of you, place your mark making tool, and then peel off the tape to see how fabulous you are at abstract art.One piece of paper, one mark making tool, one interesting object.
#Easy contour drawings full
If that all sounds good to you, read on for four ways to use blind contour drawing in your art!Įither as a means of warming up, or as something to develop into a full painting. It’s supposed to be inaccurate and possibly awkward or funny looking, so you literally can’t get it wrong!.It can create movement in an otherwise static piece.You can take it in all sorts of directions or just leave it as is.It’s a great way to abstractify if you find yourself getting stuck in realism and wanting to be more expressive.It’s a way to add drawn elements without worrying about if they will be ‘good enough’.It can be a great addition to a painting.It’s essential practice in observation – a key part of making art.It helps train your eye and hand to work together.It’s a great way to warm up if you feel like making art and are not sure where to begin.It’s a way to be fun and playful with your art without having to ‘try’ to play, and often produces laughter 🙂.Because you can’t control it, it frees you up from perfectionism, getting it ‘right’, being ‘accurate’ and making ‘good’ work.🙂īut first, a few reasons why you might want to play with this magical technique… So I’ll just say, if you haven’t tried it, here are some ideas, and if you have, here are some ideas you may not have tried yet. Some interesting exercises artists use are blind contour drawing - looking at the subject. This is a line sketch that describes not just the shape of the subject or the negative space around the subject, but also the shadow areas within the outline of the subject.
I’ll try not to do too much preamble since if you’ve been hanging around here with me for any length of time you’ll know I can get a bit evangelical about blind contour drawing. Nearly every painting begins with some form of contour drawing.
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