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.
When it comes to technical drawing, there's no one better than Scott Robertson. I regularly use this book as a reference when eyeballing my perspective just won't cut it anymore. Need to figure out exactly how to rotate an object in 3D space? How to project a shape in perspective? Look no further.
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