I'm an intermediate and I've hit a wall at contour lines. I can't yet grasp the concept of drawing contour lines. Is their any specific practices that anyone knows that has helped in better understanding of contour drawing? Thank you!
You can create cross contours on objects and then draw them, that will help you visualize contours when there are none. For starters get a simple object like a ping pong ball or an egg and draw a line over it that goes all around from top to bottom, then draw it in all sorts of angles. Then you can do the same with fruit, draw many longitudinal lines connecting the top, to bottom of an apple, or draw many latitudinal lines over a banana and then draw them paying special attention to how the contour describes form.
Here are some old drawings I did for the Art & Science of Drawing Course: https://imgur.com/a/VrjZ1Fc
Awesome! Thank you.
Love Life Drawing on youtube has a great video on mastering contour lines. It is definitely worth a watch.
While I have a massive library of non-instructional art books I've collected over the years, there's only a handful that are actually important to me. This is one of them - so much so that I jammed my copy into my overstuffed backpack when flying back from my parents' house just so I could have it at my apartment. My back's been sore for a week.
The reason I hold this book in such high esteem is because of how it puts the relatively new field of game art into perspective, showing how concept art really just started off as crude sketches intended to communicate ideas to storytellers, designers and 3D modelers. How all of this focus on beautiful illustrations is really secondary to the core of a concept artist's job. A real eye-opener.
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