Continue observing and recording until the timer rings.Rather, force yourself to concentrate on how the shapes, lines, and contours of the object relate to one another. Do not look down at the paper as your draw.Focus your eyes on some part of the object and begin moving your pencil to record what your eyes observe.Arrange yourself so you can see the object you will be drawing without seeing the paper.
Tape the paper to your drawing surface so it doesn’t shift as you draw.Choose a subject to draw - still-life objects or the figure work well for this exercise.To help her students do this, O’Day instructs them to practice a simple, 20-minute blind contour exercise. O’Day continues, “The reason most people have difficulty drawing realistically is not because of any lack of physical skill or talent, but because they have not been trained to really look at what they see.” Anyone who can write legibly has the physical ability to record observations of a subject through drawing.” “The physical act of drawing consists mostly of developing hand-eye coordination. “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. The Blind Contour Exercise in 7 steps A student’s Blind Contour drawing of feet from the Pacific University website. But it helps artists of all levels improve their observational skills by instructing them to look at the lines, shapes and patterns of objects and how they combine to form what we see. By doing so, artists are forced to draw what they actually see instead of what they think they see. Popularized by Kimon Nicolaïdes in his 1941 book The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study, the blind contour method involves carefully observing the outline and shapes of a subject while slowly drawing its contours in a continuous line without looking at the paper. The blind contour drawing exercise is a fundamental tool that can help beginning artists create their first drawings, as well as help experienced artists become reacquainted with the power of observation. Adapted from an article by Allison Malafronte. Beginner Drawings Start with a Simple Line A student’s Blind Contour drawing of a hand from the Pacific University website.
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