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By Helen South, About.com Guide to Drawing / Sketching since 2002

Drawing Exercise: Blind Contour Drawing

Monday April 28, 2008
A classic exercise for developing the eye-hand connection, improving observation and freeing up your line, Blind Contour Drawing is often learnt as a student and then forgotten about. If you haven't done one lately, why not give it another try. You can make it more challenging by choosing an interesting and complex object. Beginners might like to try the example in this blind contour drawing tutorial to start off with, which explains how to do a blind contour drawing, and includes several different examples.

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May 3, 2006 at 5:50 pm
(1) Starrpoint says:

This is harder than you might think, but it is a great way to improve your drawing fast.

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