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  2. Contour drawing - Wikipedia

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    In a continuous-line drawing, the artist looks both at the subject and the paper, moving the medium over the paper, and creating a silhouette of the object. Like blind contour drawing, contour drawing is an artful experience that relies more on sensation than perception; it's important to be guided by instinct. [2]

  3. Blind contour drawing - Wikipedia

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    Blind contour drawing is a drawing exercise, where an artist draws the contour of a subject without looking at the paper. The artistic technique was introduced by Kimon Nicolaïdes in The Natural Way to Draw, and it is further popularized by Betty Edwards as "pure contour drawing" in The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.

  4. Outline of drawing and drawings - Wikipedia

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    Contour drawing – Chiaroscuro – using strong contrasts between light and dark to achieve a sense of volume in modeling three-dimensional objects such as the human body. Gesture Drawing - loose drawing or sketching with the wrists moving, to create a sense of naturalism of the line or shape, as opposed to geometric or mechanical drawing ...

  5. Contour line - Wikipedia

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    A contour map is a map illustrated with contour lines, for example a topographic map, which thus shows valleys and hills, and the steepness or gentleness of slopes. [4] The contour interval of a contour map is the difference in elevation between successive contour lines. [5] The gradient of the function is always perpendicular to the contour ...

  6. List of art techniques - Wikipedia

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    Contour drawing technique; Contour rivalry; Crosshatching; D. Portrait using dry brushing technique The Droste effect. Dalle de verre; Décollage technique;

  7. Contour - Wikipedia

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    Contour may refer to: Contour (linguistics), a phonetic sound; Pitch contour; Contour (camera system), a 3D digital camera system; Contour Airlines; Contour flying, a form of low level flight; Contour, the KDE Plasma 4 interface for tablet devices; Contour line, a curve along which the function has a constant value; Contour drawing, an artistic ...

  8. Ian Sklarsky - Wikipedia

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    Ian Sklarsky is an artist who creates blind contour portraits using pen, ink, and water color. [1] Inspired by how blind contour requires an artist to remain focused on the subject without distraction, Sklarsky’s ongoing series of artworks are drawn with just a single line and without looking at the sketch until finished. [2]

  9. Kimon Nicolaïdes - Wikipedia

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    In brief, he taught drawing by (1) exploring the edge of the subject with 'contour drawing', (2) encouraging free and rapid 'gesture drawing', (3) encouraging tonal drawings of weight or mass, and (4) (most importantly) prescribing a daily exercise of 'memory drawing'.