Back to the Drawing Class
Earlier, I showed you some of the gesture sketches I did in my summer drawing class. (July 28 and forward.)
After LOTS of gesture sketches, we finally moved to contour drawing. That is, accurately drawing the edges, or shape, of an item. Since this was much more realistic, my classmates and I also found it to be much more difficult!
My contour drawing of our model looked A guy, but not THE guy in front of us. Still, I was pretty happy with that effort. (Click on images for a larger view.)
GEE, that was challenging! It took all of my concentration!
Next, we did LOTS of contour drawing with boxes and shapes:
Although these were a little repetitive, doing them definitely helped each of us to develop our “eye.” It was exciting to look around the classroom and see the improvement that everyone was making.
In anticipation of learning to shade, our instructor also had us begin to add some value (light/dark) contrasts to our drawings.
I was beginning to think that I might actually get the hang of it!
Ellen Lindner
