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Blind Contour Drawing Examples

By Helen South, About.com

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Blind Contour Drawing Example - Rose

H South
The shapes of organic forms, such as flowers, fruit and leaves, make excellent subjects for blind contour drawing. You tend to be more relaxed about them, too, and focus more clearly on the shape. Familiar, hard-edged manufactured objects tempt us to draw what we 'know' rather than what we see. The unexpected forms of a flower encourage us to look really hard and trust our eyes. This is the whole point of blind contour drawing. Observing, and allowing your hand to follow your eyes. The end result doesn't really matter. I'm rather pleased with this one - the attention to detail is better, but still with a nice line quality.

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