How to Draw a Blind Contour Drawing
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- This is a great way to practice hand-eye coordination to make your drawings better!
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this drawing is fun to do since it teaches us to accept our mistakes :D
Exactly! We all have to draw LOTS of bad drawings to get good drawings. Be kind to yourself and eventually drawings will "turn out". Thanks for watching and commenting!
Thank you 😂😂
My biggest problem is my eyes and hand move out of sync even if I start off slow my eye just starts going fast zooming through the lines I imagine around my object. BUT I WONT GIVE UP ILL HAVE IT DOWN IN NO TIME JUST WATCH ME!
I love this comment! This is most people's experience. Life is fast and we aren't encouraged to slow down very much, so it takes practice. You'll totally get it soon!!! :)
Great exercise for us beginners. And it's fun, too! Thanks.
Thank you!
Dear Ms. LZM, So far your is among the only presentations the even closely resembles the practice and purpose of the Blind Continuous Contour Drawing. While is some details, I may not totally agree, you've done well by your students. P.S. Thank you for your effort in ensuring that you resist CHEATING...Well Done. That said, I would suggest that you try teaching this exercise in larger scale not simply the fingers and hand but rather the wrist AND arm. Likewise, it might be advantageous to actually also include as much detail as well as interior attention as possible.
M McKee haha thanks!
M McKee oh and agree about larger scale for art university purposes- I currently teach non-university students kids teens and adults- who usually have less workspace to draw at home. Plus the littles can’t even carry a larger notepad! So for my audience the limitation is fingers/wrist movement. Just means that they have more to explore if they go to art school or take a course with large standing easels/studio!
oh my god i was NOT expecting that donkey I litterally screamed ahahaha
YESS these drawings can be very entertaining😁
is me or this exercise is better if is done by looking at REAL LIFE objects instead of photos?, i mean if you look for blind cotnour drawing tutorial 90% of them use real life objects lol.
Drawing from real life is definitely the way to go. Use books for additional study and for subjects you don't have access to.
Agreed, a real life object is important. It's just hard to film that in a video! And some students don't have access to many objects, so photos can work in a pinch.
Very useful thank you! but i read sth somewhere it said that ''do not take your pencil off from the paper while you are drawing'' but you did that many times i mean you took off the pencil from the paper many times im confused lol
You're right- some teachers DO teach to never pick up your pencil in this exercise! I don't. I DO recommend, however, that if you do pick up your pencil that you try to FEEL the distance it is moving- so that your pencil is only moving the same distance your eye is moving over the object. Does that make sense? It can be harder to do it this way. It isn't a bad way to do it, though! Thanks for the question!
I thank you ♥
Lady Romana my pleasure! Hope this practice helps you to draw more!
so the purpose this exercise is to make your strokes smoother ?
No, but that might be an added side effect. The purpose is to connect your eye and hand to better judge shapes & sizes.
@@Lzmstudio thanks!!!
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Thank you!
Is it recommended to stay at a single subject/reference or i should always try it on a different reference/subjects?
This video is years ago but i would really love to learn how to draw properly
The video was years ago but I’m still teaching drawing 😍 somehow the pandemic didn’t entirely kill my business (just hobbled it!). Definitely practice on lots of subjects. If you want to draw more with me check out my super affordable course on lzmstudio.com or keep drawing here! I’m a firm believer that everyone can learn to draw💫 stick with practicing with good instructions and miracles happen!!
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I am just watching a lot of videos about art without doing anything! Help
You are not alone! I think that is why the videos with people drawing fancy things are more popular than my videos that teach skills. We love being spectators more than getting in the ring and fighting! It is human nature. Start small- try drawing for 5 minutes a few times a week. See if it makes you want to draw more? And don't beat yourself up- we all can say mean things to ourselves and it usually doesn't help us motivate.
realy helpful. Thanks!
ViMo Vision glad to hear it!
cool i like it good luck
Thanks for watching!
Thankyou xx
you're welcome! how did it go?
Gonna try
What are the seven rules of contour drawings? I don’t know them but I know they exist, do you know them, I would appreciate a reply
This is not something I've come across in my drawing career. I come from an academic tradition, and animation/commercial art is taught very differently- it might be from that tradition? Or Technical drawing as in Engineering- but I have a Fine Art background. Do let me know if you figure it out!
cool
Wing Long KWOK thanks for watching!
im just here for my home learning lmaoo
not sure what you mean?
neato
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lobco will not be deep fried Aw thanks. Curly hair takes a lot of wrangling😂
Two minutes? You're joking, right?
A proper BC exercise is hours long.
No, not joking! Everyone has to start somewhere, @tugger. So for someone very new to drawing, it is traditional to do very short exercises and repeat them a lot- both to gain hand-eye-coordination and lessen one's attachment to creating a "perfect" result. It is like lifting weights or swimming laps in training for the Olympics - it isn't the end result, the competition. Then for someone with more experience, more practice, someone who is aiming for becoming a professional artist or even showing one's work in public, increasing the time that is spent with each exercise is of value. But that doesn't mean that those who don't aim for that goal shouldn't enjoy the valuable lessons of learning to draw, and drawing for themselves, alone.
I think tugger must be joking... I've been teaching beginning drawing at University for more than ten years and I can tell you from my experience that it is difficult for students to sustain a blind contour from more that a few minuets at a time. I have never heard of hours long Blind Contour exercises! (lol absurd!) let alone a "proper" one. Great video LZM Studio, keep up the good work. :)
@@Lzmstudio I remember doing these exercises in my early years in college. I can't remember if we had to do them fast or slow. I didn't understand the purpose of the exercises either until I took an animation/illustration class at university way later. My teacher had us move our pens an inch per minute. After viewing this tutorial, I realized that there's many different ways to do this exercise. If students go fast, they can learn to get the feel for basic shapes and distances. If they go slow, they can work on shapes and distances, but they can also concentrate on the subtleties of line quality. I guess it depends on the level of difficulty a student is willing to try.
@@salsa101 very true- and the timing of when they are practiced. I do this in early days with students for developing hand eye coordination and suspending judgement of right vs wrong lines. There is always more than one way to approach essential drawing skills! That’s a good thing- it keeps us growing.