What is a Modified contour drawing?

Modified contour drawing is a drawing exercise very similar to blind contour, where an artist draws the contour, or edge lines of a subject. This time the artist looks may look at their drawing, but may only draw while looking at their reference. And again,for our purposes, we will do our best not to pick up our pencil that often. 

1: Modified Contour of Something Simple

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2: Modified Contour of a Plant

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your Modified contour drawings 

I want you to do at least 4. 

1: Fruit 

2: Your BackPack

3: Your hand

4: Your Shoe

Tools:

1: Sketchbook

2: Pencil

3: Erasers

4: Pencil Sharpener

Basic Instructions:

1: Try and leave your pencil connected to the paper the whole time

2: Don't press super hard with your pencil

3: Only draw when you are looking at your reference

4: Don't move your pencil when you are looking at your drawing

5: You are turning 3D Edges into lines

6: You can use the thickness of your line in order to create visual weight or lightness

7: Make sure to take a quality photo of your drawings to turn in

Remember these are going to look a little goofy, that's ok. The process of building hand eye coordination and observation is the objective. 

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