This document discusses contour line drawing techniques. It explains that contour lines involve slowly tracing an object with your eyes while your pencil follows in the same movement on the paper. The key aspects are to move at a slow, continuous pace while coordinating your eye and hand movements without looking away from the object or down at the paper. It distinguishes contour drawing from outlining by noting contour involves capturing details within the outline through different line techniques like blind contour, modified contour, and cross contour lines.

2. Contour Line
• Continuous Line
• Speed
• Coordination

3. Contour Line
• Pencil is stuck to paper- 1 continuous line
• Work slowly….. Pencil is drawing exactly what
the eye is seeing, little by little

4. 1. Focus eyes
on a starting
place
2. Place pencil
on paper
3. Imagine your
eyes are the
pencil. As
your eye
moves, the
pencil moves.
SLOWLY at
the same
pace

5. Do not take your eyes off the
form, do not look at the paper,
move your eyes slowly along the
contour, the pencil should be
moving along the same contour.
Try to coordinate your pencil
with your eyes; do not move
your eyes faster than your
drawing

6. Contour or Outline?
• Contour is more than an outline
• Ant crawling across the form
• What other lines can you draw to show
details- INSIDE the outline?

7. Contour Outline

8. Blind Contour- look at object not a
paper

11. Modified Contour- look at object 90%
of time, glance at drawing occasionally

13. Cross Contour- lines laying ACROSS
object. Not outline.

15. Contour Drawing- uses both blind and
modified and cross- contour.
Line is most important