The past few weeks we have been practicing more of breaking down objects into the five basic elements of shape, and we've discovered that WE CAN DRAW anything!
We've drawn birds in a tree, and Leo the lion.
We've discussed the importance of thumbnail sketches for layout/composition.
Today we had to use intense focus and silence while we drew blind contour line drawings. The object here is to use our eyes to follow around the outside contour of an object, and transfer what we're seeing down through our hand and out of the pencil tip. We call it "blind" because we did not look at our paper while we were drawing!
Some artists got a bit frustrated that their drawing didn't look technically accurate.
We learned that we need to shut off our left brain, and trust our eyes.
Some artists surprised themselves that the lines on their paper looked like an artist drew it.
They learned that They've had an artist inside them this whole time.
I encouraged all artists to continue to practice this when starting new drawings. Getting the contour right will help the details to fit in easily.
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