(339) Inner and Outer Contour Drawing

This evening was the first OSA drawing class. Our drawing subject the hand. We used a technique called blind contour.

Blind contour is a technique where you focus on letting your mind interpret what the eye sees.

Try it! Grab a piece of paper, pick a subject, and start drawing. The important part - try not to look at the paper, stay focused on the subject. Let your mind do the work on the paper. You will be amazed at how your mind translates the subject onto the paper and produce some really interesting pictures.

The line quality can be very interesting. Play around with different line values (i.e light or dark variations). Perhaps use inner contour where you make the inside lines darker than the outside or outer contour where you have a dark outline of the subject with light inner lines.

Check out this blog - http://www.inkfinger.us/ they have some really interesting pieces.

Here are several I created in the class and though not perfect, it gives an idea of how the technique can produce interesting images from a fairly normal subject:

Blind Inner Contour



Blind Outer Contour