Week 4: Contour and Longer Poses

This week we'll be doing some contour drawing. A contour is the line which defines a form or edge - an outline. When doing a contour drawing, you place your pencil on the paper, look at the subject, then move the pencil as if you were drawing on the surface of the subject. Try not to look at the paper until you come to a point where you need to re-orient your position. The drawings will look strange to you, but they are a great way to improve 'seeing' your subject. Here are a few images I pulled off of a google search.



We'll also go through some demos on tackling longer poses, measuring, looking for anatomy landmarks, and getting the drawing mapped out before we start adding details.