Just Black & White 9 - Class Lesson 2

Over the next few weeks Louise taught us several new ways to approach drawing.  I am not going to go into a lot of detail but will share a definition as well as the work I did in each of these areas.  


The first area we covered was Contour Drawing, click here.  Our subject was our hand.  In the first drawing we were asked to draw the outline of both the front and the back view of our hand.
In this drawing we were allowed to look at the drawing as we drew.  The end result is very much like a coloring book drawing.


Contour Drawing

For the second drawing we did the palm, the back and a side view of our hand.  This time we were not allowed to look at the paper at anytime and we were not allowed to lift the pencil off the paper until each drawing was complete.  This is called a blind contour drawing.  Needless to say the results are quite different.


Blind Contour Drawing

Contour Drawing Homework

The next method we learned was Foreshortening, click here.  This was another interesting lesson.  I had a little improvement in the second drawing.


Foreshortening - view 1

Foreshortening - view 2

Finally we learned Perspective, click here.  We were taught how to use the vanishing point to achieve proper perspective.  I have to admit that this is one area where I could learn a lot more.


Vanishing Point

Exercise in using Vanishing Point