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Assignment: Contour and Gesture Drawing

Assignment: Contour and Gesture Drawing. Descriptive Line is an Element of Art. Contour Drawing. Descriptive Line. Contour Line. A Two Minute Pose. Citation Needed. Contour drawing shows the outline of the subject. Picasso War and Peace. Not the volume or mass of an object. “Fleur"

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Assignment: Contour and Gesture Drawing

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  1. Assignment:Contour and Gesture Drawing Descriptive Line is an Element of Art

  2. Contour Drawing Descriptive Line

  3. Contour Line A Two Minute Pose Citation Needed

  4. Contour drawing shows the outline of the subject. • Picasso • War and Peace

  5. Not the volume or mass of an object. “Fleur" Henri Matisse

  6. Picasso - Igor Stravinsky • Contour defines the edges and surface ridges of the subject.

  7. Contour Line creates a boundary • “Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.” • Paul Klee

  8. Separating one area from another • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec • Madame Thadee Natanson at the Theater

  9. Learning how to contour draw will… • Enhance your drawing skills. Citation Needed

  10. It will allow you to… • Observe and understand objects. Citation Needed

  11. When drawing contour… • Let your eyes follow the contour of the object you are drawing. Citation Needed

  12. You look at the object and not at your drawing. M.C.Escher

  13. When drawing contour let your eyes stare for two minutes at the object’s contour. As you follow with your eye, try to draw what you see. Citation Needed

  14. The line should be continuous.

  15. Focus • Draw the line slowly and with care. Citation Needed

  16. Use Pressure on pencil • To make thick and thin lines.

  17. Gesture Drawing Descriptive Line

  18. Gesture Line A descriptive line that starts the form of the pose. Justin Sweet

  19. Gesture Drawing Picasso Don Quixote

  20. Gesture Line… • Is an Expressive Movement • Using a Guideline Vilppu

  21. Gesture… • Captures the feeling of motion.

  22. Gesture uses very little detail Justin Sweet

  23. Imagine • Thin • Continuous • Flow of Line • Coming Out of the Drawing Justin Sweet

  24. Looping • Twisting • Changing Direction Citation Needed

  25. Lines are Drawn Quickly Justin Sweet

  26. Sketched Freely Citation Needed

  27. Loosely Vilppu

  28. Even Recklessly Helen South

  29. It can look like scribbles Justin Sweet

  30. In order to capture movement Justin Sweet

  31. Unlike Contour…. • Gesture represents the interior of an object. Justin Sweet

  32. Concentrate on Showing position and movement with a guiding line. Citation Needed

  33. Assignment :Examples of Student’s Work Contour

  34. Contour

  35. Contour

  36. Gesture

  37. Gesture

  38. Answer on a Separate Piece of Paper10 Questions: • Title your paper: Contour and Descriptive Drawing. • Add your name and period number.

  39. Question 1 • The two types of lines, contour and gesture belong to the ____(fill in the blank)_____ of Art.

  40. Question 2 • Contour and gesture line is a (fill in the blank) line?

  41. Question 3 • A contour drawing defines what aspects of the subject?

  42. Question 4 • List the important steps to make a contour drawing.

  43. Question 5 • Name at least 3 artists in the PowerPoint that used contour line in their art.

  44. Question 6 • Gesture line starts the__(fill in the blank)___ of the pose.

  45. Question 7 • Gesture line expresses__(fill in the blank)___in a subject.

  46. Question 8 • Gesture uses very little __(fill in the blank)___ .

  47. Question 9 • Unlike contour, gesture represents the __(fill in the blank)___ of an object

  48. Question 10 • List the important steps to make a gesture drawing.

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