Improve your sketching with BLIND CONTOUR DRAWING!
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- Опубліковано 8 жов 2024
- Blind contour drawing is a great way to improve your sketching and I'll show you how!
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I learned this technique in college, and I think it taught me to "see" objects as they are instead of letting preconceived ideas influence my drawing. It has been a very important lesson for me.
Phenomenal. I love your videos of sketches where you carefully - but loosely - measure body parts in relation to each other. And I love that you went about this so differently. These look great - a bit of cartoon-like whimsy brings out the figures’ personalities and yours!
Let me know if you've tried this exercise! (I hope you enjoyed the new camera angles haha😆)
Love it
Ohhhh myyy gosh! I am so grateful for this lesson. Sometimes I get anxious watching drawing tutorials, as I say to myself, “I know I can’t do that!” But you and this lesson helped me to exhale!! I sensed no pressure, and I know I can do it. I’ve just now decided to create a blind contouring with pen and watercolor only sketchbook! Thank You!!!!!
That’s so good to hear!😊 I’m glad you were inspired to start a sketchbook on this. That’s a great idea🙌🏼
Great video, for one of my art classes in university I based my body of work on blind contour drawings as an exercise for new and beginner artists. The goal was to let go of expectations and focus on the quality of the lines themselves rather than making a coherent picture, there was usually some resistance in the beginning but most volunteers found the exercise to be quite fun 🤩
That sounds perfect! Yes scary but fun 👍🏼
Scottie you are such a legend. Since watching your videos I feel so much more comfortable trying (and usually failing) to make the kind of art I want to make. You're such a natural teacher & your art is just lovely. Thank you so much!! Hopefully I'll be financially stable enough to support your patreon soon.
Thank you William! That’s very kind of you, I appreciate it😊. I’m glad these videos have helped you!
This is what I do while pretending to listen to lectures I'm bored of haha :D
(New camera angles are great btw!)
😂 great time to practice!
Thank you. I’ll start. I usf to do these when I took college art classes. It really does help
This is a great technique to make more unique shapes. Thanks for share !
You aced it. Really good. I'm working through Bert Dodson's book: Keys to drawing. Been at art for 18years but keep returning to the basics. Good practice.
Thanks Ken😊 great book for basics!
Wow this is a fantastic lesson. What a time saver!
Love it Scottie. Your channel has come along so far. FANTASTIC WORK.
🙏🏼Thanks mate! Appreciate your support as always🤗
Excellent.I'll definitely give it a go. It would be good to hear your thoughts on if you plan the sketch and proportions before you start each pose.
Thanks Stella! I didn’t plan the sketch here and didn’t mind if I got the proportions off😊. As I practiced each sketch got slightly better in terms of guessing the proportions but more about the free line work
This is good exercise for warm up and sketching. Thank you!
Glad you like it!
Omg 😂😂😂. This was really fun, and the results were even more fun… Body width sized like a pencil and almost could not recognise the characters are people 😅. Did not help much with the loose lines, so I would like to learn more about loose, expressive, creative lines you draw.
Great you gave it a go!! Yes they can look pretty crazy but glad you had fun😂
I really need to practice this technique. I want to get better at doing caricatures and I find myself getting too caught up in trying to get an exact likeness, with my eyes just constantly going back and forth.
thanks Scottie! really interesting experiment in letting go of control haha. I felt some discomfort over that aspect so definitely a good thing to practice more!
Yes that’s a great way to describe it! 🤗
Something I've been doing since I got a multipen is looking for excuses to use all the colors more often, and blind contours are great for this. I just go back and forth, working left to right in one color, then right to left in the next, until I've gone through each color. Then I switch to black ink, maybe using a brush pen or fountain pen instead of the multipen, and do some comparative measurement to finish my study with accuracy.
great idea JH!
Thankyou Sottie, I think I’ll try this!
Hope it goes well June!
Love it. I'm practicing
Awesome video thank you Scottie👍✏️
That’s Elly🤗
wow amazing
Very informative video. Motivational to us. 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
Thanks a lot Vijay!
you are a master blind drawer! I'm struggling😒
❤Love this. Thank you
😀😃 it's amazing exercise ‼️ thanks for sharing❤️
Thanks Samik🤗
this is really impressive!
Thanks Impish!
Absolutely hilarious! My drawings looks like an absolute train wreck. One would think I was either in a major earthquake or having a major medical episode. Thanks for the laugh.
Thank you! 😊
one thing I realised is I draw more realistic and intimate lines when I draw just one line.
Such a great exercise! Love the water color pen (?) detailing at the end. So inspiring ❤
Thank you!!
Great work👌
Thanks Amita 🤗
Hmmmm,did you read “Drawing On The Right Side of the Brain”? Have tried this! Fun!
No I haven’t. Glad you had fun!
Interesting book…….
Well how this technique help in increasing the observational skills...?!!!
And....
Should we really have to draw like what you see directly?or just firstly observe or do something else...
So is a game that tells u look at the reference and not the paper?
thanks video! from japan
in japan info less
Can this be done with other tools, e.g. brush pen?
Yes definitely! A brush pen would be great and you could try bigger pieces of paper with those too