Contour Line Drawings

by Monica Carlisle·36 views·Updated Nov 2, 2020

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Hey, archers!
For this week's lesson, I found inspiration through your phrase.
Read between the lines, and we will be creating a
contour line, drawing a contour line.
Our lines that surround and define the edges of a
subject, giving it shape and volume.
When you draw lines curving around the surface or contour
of an object, you give that object volume.
You make that object appear.
Three D.
Let me show you some examples of what I mean
by a contour line.
Can you guess what this object is?
It is a glue bottle.
You can tell by the pointed top and the rounded
cap, and then the rounded body of the object you
can see with this line drawing that it's a continuous
line. That means that there are no breaks or dashes
or stops.
The artist has one starting point and one ending point.
Here is another example of a contour line drawing.
I'm sure you can guess what this object is.
It's a hat you couldn't tell The artist used volume.
The artist used line to show the volume of the
hats bill and then also line to show the three
D form of the top of the cap.
Here is a contour line of a hand you can
see again.
This is a continuous line.
There is a start point and an end point.
Very simple.
It's just the outline of the object.
Here's another example of hands again, a nice, continuous smooth
line. Here's an example of a contour line drawing of
shoes. The artist did not use any shading to create
depth or form the artist used line and another example
of a portrait with a line contour again, just a
singular line creating the outline and then the interior structure
of the object to create its three D form.
I'll be guiding you through the process of drawing a
shoe for our project this week.
Stay tuned.