Extended Blind Contour Drawing

In this foundations of art class, we were assigned to create blind contour drawings. A blind contour drawing is when you focus on the subject you are drawing, and don’t look at the picture or take your sharpie, or whatever utensil you’re using. In this case I was using a sharpie to start with. We were assigned to draw both of our hands, our face, and someone else’s face. When I first drew my hands, both of them had looked nothing like each other nor did they look realistic to my hands. The same thing happened when I drew faces as well, not realistic at all.

Once we had finished the drawings, we had to choose between either, oil pastel, colored pencils, sharpies, watercolors or acrylic paint to use to create our pieces. I decided to use watercolor because I really like the way it looks on paper and I’m very familiar with it. The artwork I created was very abstract and I’m glad it was because I think abstract art is something that’s really interesting to me because it’s not realistic; so it doesn’t have to be perfect of what you would expect a normal head or hand to look like. I first started simple just by coloring inside the lines of my sharpie drawings with the watercolor. When I started to create my piece, I didn’t really know where I was going with this or like what my idea around the whole thing was. But when I do abstract art, I kind of just go with the flow because in abstract, I kind of just let my mind go with it.

In this art piece that I made, there isn’t really a background story or why I chose to create what I did. However, it somehow could relate to my life or the background story because I chose to make it very colorful and just a lot of things happening in the picture because I don’t like things to be plain and boring so I chose to do lots of different colors and different designs and patterns in the art piece. What I’m most proud of in my artwork is when we did the blind contouring, the head and face that I drew didn’t come out too unrealistically. Some things I struggled with while making my art piece is when I was painting with the watercolors, the colors started to mix with each other so, some of the designs I created on my art piece didn’t come out very clear which made it harder to see what I had painted. Although I do like my art, something that bothers me about it is, I wish I knew ahead of time what I wanted to make out of it and although I do like abstract to just go with the flow; I like to atleast have an idea of what to go off of. In the future I would probably use a different material than watercolor only because I wasn’t very careful and the colors began to mix.