Contour line drawings focus solely on outlining objects with continuous lines without shading or sketching. Such drawings emphasize the lines that make up an object. Examples provided are contour line drawings done by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse that simply use outlines to depict subjects.

1. Contour Line Drawings

2. What is a Contour Line Drawing? A drawing in which the artist draws the outline of an object -The focus is on the lines that make up the object -Contour line drawings do not use shading or sketching, but simply continuous lines

3. By Pablo Picasso Examples of Contour Line Drawings

4. By Henri Matisse

5. By Henri Matisse

6. By Henri Matisse

7. By Henri Matisse

8. By Henri Matisse