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Fun example of contour drawing

3/4/2020

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A useful and entertaining exercise is to draw a figure without looking at one's paper. Usually, in drawing classes, the students observe a figure model and, keeping their eyes trained on the model, without looking at their newsprint pad, follow the forms of the figure model and draw them blind.
This fun photo essay from a 1947 issue of Life Magazine, demonstrates the exercise although the participants' approach was different in that they were remembering instead of observing.
Try it yourself both ways! And, as practiced during observational contour drawing in classrooms,  try it without lifting your pen (charcoal, pencil, etc) off of the paper!
​You might not capture a satisfactory likeness but you might find your results interesting otherwise.
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