We all worked from the same photo reference for this exercise.
We did four sketches:
- Blind contour - draw without looking at the page. (This helps warm up your hand-eye coordination).
- Continuous line - you can look, but don't lift the pen from the page. (This is an excellent method for learning about the parts of your subject and seeing how they are related. However, it's difficult to get the angles and proportions right and the lines straight).
- Abstracting Shapes - draw the edges of the blue shapes and shade them in with blue pencil. (Helps to see the shapes - both positive and negative).
- Constructing volumes - draw the basic box shapes first with pencil, then add ink. (This produces the most finished looking sketch because you plan it out first).
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| Blind Contour and Continuous Line |
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| Abstracting Shapes and Constructing Volumes |
Jim
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