Weird Stuff..Pure Contour Drawing

So our first challenge this week was to get our heads round drawing with our eyes and transferring the image of their journey into the diary without looking at it.
Ummm! A bit of a challenge and therefore rather intimidating at first but all 5 of my Tuesday students were totally focused to achieve the aim and managed brilliantly doing edges and contours of their hand.
It is really hard to focus away from the page and 'take your eyes for a walk'.

This is all part of 'pure contour drawing'. It begins the process of training the brain to syncronise the movement of the hand in time with the journey taken by the eyes across the edges and contours of the object. It helps to really examine the subject that you are going to draw and see the series of related edges and 2D contours rather than a scarey 3D object.
Well done guys!
We later moved on to 'modified contour drawing'. Moving towards developing their skills to 90% observation 10% checking the drawing for accuracy. It was challenging for everyone but they rose to it.
 Here are some shots of Thursday's class in the middle of their modified contour activity and the subjects they were drawing.

 

 Looking forward to seeing everyone's homework next week and publishing extracts from each diary in the next blog post.