5/21/2023 0 Comments Contour lines in art with a appleThey do a lot for a drawing, and they’re interesting. It took me years to realize that I actually like cross contours. When I learned cross contour in school, we did projects like this apple below, and I wondered what the heck this had to do with anything, because I didn’t see any good drawings that were like this, and although it had that nifty 3D effect, I never wanted to draw like this again. Cross contours describe the form like outlines do, but they do it in the middle instead of at the edge. This is where cross contours become useful. Without a mark here and there to cue us in to what’s happening in the expanse of whiteness, the drawing remains flat. These outlines describe what the shapes do around the edges, but inside those edges, with the exception of those tiny hatches at the knuckles, there is only blank white, just as outside the boundaries, there is also only blank white, so we don’t really know what happens there. You can see how the lines describe the contours around the edges of the form, the defining edges of the facial features, and the outlines around the fingers. Below is an Egon Schiele drawing using contour lines. Contours describe the shape along the edges of a thing. “Contour” is the French word for outline, so contour lines are, quite simply, outlines. We are 1/3 done! Sunday is observational drawing day, so I’m sharing an exercise from school, with a twist. Today is the 10th day of our 30 Day Challenge.
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