

You will learn how to draw more instinctively. You cannot afford to think too much with gesture drawing, so you need to rely much more on instinct. The more problems you encounter, the more solutions you will develop. You will see noticeable improvements in your drawing within a relatively short period of time. This is because you are working relatively fast and will encounter so many more problems than if you were just doing one large artwork. If you make a mistake, then just learn from it and move on to the next drawing. You should not be doing any erasing in gesture drawing. You do not have to worry about making mistakes.
Easy contour line. drawing free#
My requirements are more strict than the free community critiques: If you are interested in receiving extra help, I critique the work of those who support Drawabox on Patreon.Īll of these private critiques are done through reddit, in specific threads where students post their work as a comment, including a link to their work (often hosted on Imgur, though most image hosts are okay). Otherwise, draw it using the ghosting method - plan it out, take your time, and execute it with confidence. If it isn't going to be contributing much, or if that task can be done better with a different mark (or is already being accomplished by another), don't draw it.

So before you draw a contour line as part of a construction - or really, before you draw any line - think about what it is meant to accomplish as part of your drawing. When using them in actual drawings, I frequently see students draw far too many without any real consideration of what each individual one is meant to accomplish. In this exercise it's not really an issue because we're simply practicing their use. One important thing to keep in mind however is that you don't want to get in the habit of simply dropping a bunch of contour lines on something for no reason. They'll also help us to reinforce the illusion that they're solid and three dimensional. Contour lines themselves are something we're going to use a great deal throughout our later lessons, as it'll help us to better understand how these forms that we're drawing exist in 3D space, and how they relate to one another.
