Extended Blind Contour Drawing

In this class, my classmates and I were taught blind contour drawings. This is when you look at an object, and without looking at the paper or lifting your drawing utensil, you draw what you see. Teachers and learners emphasize that the key to a good contour drawing is to let your hand, in which you are drawing with, go at the same pace as your eyes moving along the object you are drawing. So, I was told to look at my left hand, and draw with my right hand. This drawing is the second hand from the bottom of the page. The next thing I was told to do is to look at my right hand, while drawing with my non-dominant hand. This drawing is in the top right hand corner. Lastly, I was instructed to draw a self portrait, which is shown on the right hand side of the page. It almost looks like the voodoo doll heads. The next step was to make something out of this drawing. So, looking at all the angles of this paper I saw a sort of mountain shape, which led to the thought that I could add a body to my lovely self portrait to make it seem like I am climbing up a mountain. After adding a two more hand contours, I began to start adding some detail. First, with drawing a body to this mountain climber. I was happy with the result so I started watercoloring. I did the mountain with black and brown. Then, using maker I colored the person with warm colors, because my plan was to counteract the warm colors of the person with the cool colors of the sky. I used color pencils and markers to draw the person. Then, I went back to water colors to finish the sky. After I was done, I needed more balance in my photos, so i added a watercolor crescent moon to my drawing. This is when I saw balance, unity, color, emphasis, shape, line, texture and contrast all come together to create this piece.

It's not one of my best pieces, but that's because i used watercolor for the first time. However, for it being the first time that I have ever used watercolors, I like it a lot. I would like to experiment with them more in order to see what other cool techniques I can achieve with them.