Grade 5
Using a shoe as a still life, students focused on drawing from observation. Contour line drawing is a technique where the artist sketches the outline and inner form of an object or person. During this process, you do not worry about any kind of shading. This essential skill helps students to learn how to carefully observe and draw what they actually see instead of recalling from memory or the brain's recollection of the image.
Using a shoe as a still life, students focused on drawing from observation. Contour line drawing is a technique where the artist sketches the outline and inner form of an object or person. During this process, you do not worry about any kind of shading. This essential skill helps students to learn how to carefully observe and draw what they actually see instead of recalling from memory or the brain's recollection of the image.
Check out this video on blind contour drawing. We practiced this technique before we started the shoe life drawings.
Here are some of the students drawings in progress. We will be adding color in a following class period before the final project is complete.