This document provides instructions for two line drawing exercises. The first asks students to draw a single object using a continuous line without lifting their pencil from the page. The second uses two pencils bound together to make dense marks on the page in order to draw the internal form of an object first before defining the outer contour. Both exercises encourage experimenting with different drawing tools like pencils and pens to create line drawings.

1. Line drawings

2. Pablo Picasso: ‘Fenhofer at Work on his unknown Masterpiece’

3. Drawing: Continuous Line Drawing
Materials
Use a combination of B, 2B, 3B and
4B pencils, graphite sticks, biros, fineliners etc…
Subject
A Single object
Look carefully at the objects in front of
you. With a pencil create a line drawing
of it. Do NOT take your pen off the page
for the whole drawing!

4. Drawing: Two Pencils
Materials
Use a combination of B, 2B, 3B and
4B pencils, graphite sticks, biros, fineliners etc…
Subject
A Single object
By using two pencils bound together, you
will produce a range of dense and
sometimes unpredictable marks that will
provide you with a surface to adjust,
restructure, and work, both with and
against. This drawing provides you with
the opportunity to start by making marks
inside the form, and there by breaking the
habit of using line to draw the outer
contour edge first.