Tuesdays and Thursdays in my art class consists of a ten minute bellringer, 15 minutes of drawing practice drills, and an open studio time for the students to work on unfinished assignments or try out new things of their own interest.
Tuesday I introduced them to timed figure and gesture drawing for practice drills. This consists of students volunteering to be models for the rest of the class to draw in three minutes or less. Their goal is draw the model's complete figure in under three minutes, filling up most of the space on their drawing paper. Below, Phil Hanson of Goodbye Art Academy (my favorite art teacher), explains more about figure and gesture drawing.
Today I introduced them to another form of drawing called blind contour. These exercises are invaluable for training beginning art students how to observe what they are drawing.
There is a common misconception among the general public that artists just make up the things they draw straight out of their head. The truth is that you don't really know what something looks like until you LOOK at it. Below, Phil Hanson describes in his goofy way all about Blind Contour Drawing.
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