Methods of Teaching Contour Drawing:
Teaching your students to draw contour line drawings is a great way to help
improve their observational skills and prepare them for more advance drawing
technics. It helps the student to learn to draw the lines they see that make up
the object and not the symbol that represents of the object they see
(that we have been trained represents the object our how life).
1.Drawing Upside Down
One method for teaching contour drawing skills is by having students draw pictures upside down. This helps the mind to stop seeing objects as they are and braking them down into basic lines.
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| LT: Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Igor RT: Pencil Drawing |
One method for teaching contour drawing skills is by having students draw pictures upside down. This helps the mind to stop seeing objects as they are and braking them down into basic lines.
2. Blind Contour Drawing
Another method is blind contour drawing on newsprint paper. You will use your hand to draw from.
Hint: One simplified
method of explaining this to a student who is having a hard time understanding
the concept would be the “pet ant” approach.
You have an invisible pet ant on a leash and you place that ant on your
hand. (Don’t forget to name him). You
follow him with your eyes everywhere he goes.
If you take your eyes of him you will loss him. Your other hand follows his path on the
paper. The tip of the marker is stuck to
the paper and cannot be lifted. Do about 10 of these drawings.
Another method is blind contour drawing on newsprint paper. You will use your hand to draw from.
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| Blind Contour Drawing of hand |
3. Contour Line Drawing
In contour line drawing students can glance at their paper from time to time. Start with hand drawings again, about 10. Students can progress to contour drawing of their legs or shoes. Then still life objects.
In contour line drawing students can glance at their paper from time to time. Start with hand drawings again, about 10. Students can progress to contour drawing of their legs or shoes. Then still life objects.
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| Hand Contour Line Drawing |
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| Typewriter Contour Line Drawing |
4. Final Project
For a final project have the students overlap several Contour drawings of the same or similar objects (in different directions) then go into the individual shapes and add patterns, textures, and repetition. This will create a fun, unique and creative piece of artwork that is only limited by your imagination.
For a final project have the students overlap several Contour drawings of the same or similar objects (in different directions) then go into the individual shapes and add patterns, textures, and repetition. This will create a fun, unique and creative piece of artwork that is only limited by your imagination.
Example:
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