1. Drawing Exercises Continuous Contour Line Drawing
Blind Contour Eye Drawing
Gesture Drawing
Negative Space Drawing
Value without Line Drawing

2. Continuous Contour Line Drawing
Create a drawing without lifting the pencil off the paper
Helps artists focus on the line
Imperfections = Beauty

3. Blind Contour Eye Drawing
Look at the subject matter you are drawing, but not at your paper
Helps your eye and hand work in unison
Do not lifting the pencil off the paper
Abstraction = Success

4. Gesture Drawing
Draw as much information as you can in a short amount of time
Do not waist time erasing; instead add darker lines on top of softer ones
Focus on what is being drawn as much as the drawing itself

5. Negative Space Drawing
Draw the space around the object (negative space) rather than the object itself
1st use solid marks to create very flat image
2nd try making the negative space more realistic

6. Value without Line Drawing
Do not draw a single line, instead use shading to build the drawing up
Create various degrees of lightness and darkness
You can use an eraser

7. Increasing Darkness
Pressure
Crossing lines
Lines closer together

8. Still Life Drawing

9. Still Life

10. Still Life An artwork that shows mostly inanimate objects
Inanimate = things that cannot move or live
Artists use this technique to become better in their skills of drawing and most importantly seeing

11. Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1599

12. Vincent van Gogh, 1888

13. MC Eschur,
1943

14. Pablo Picasso,
1924

15. Roy Lichtenstein, 1972

16. Contour Line Drawing Start with soft pencil marks Zoom in and draw big
Try using shapes that you see in the objects
Complete entire composition before adding heavier marks and details to a single area

17. Value

18. Value Varies degrees of lightness and darkness in an artwork
A good artist will use these degrees of value to give an artwork depth

19. Value vs Contour Line

22. Value Scale
Using a pencil and ruler, draw 5 x 1’’ x 1’’ squares

23. Today’s Steps
Add value to your artwork, with various degrees of lightness and darkness
Choose from tonal, crosshatch, or linear, techniques
Look closely at values and blend what you see

24. Hints Draw what you see from your personal perspective
Constantly compare your drawing with the objects in the still life
Spend equal time looking at your drawing and the objects in the still life