Pure Contour

The main ideas that guided my work were the shoes and my hand because they let me practice and become better as an artist to work on my pure contour skills. For the first pure contour, I drew the Hand Holding a Rubberband, which allowed me to gain more understanding of a hand, especially the things I forget to draw while drawing a hand, which would be the detailed lines and wrinkles. As for the other three pure contours, I practiced on my perspective and tried my best to get it right, not too long and not too short, so that it would look realistic.

The materials I used were lighter and darker graphite pencils, to be specific, I used 2H pencils and 2B pencils. I used the 2H pencil as a starting point and drew out the contour to get a basic outline of my shoes and hand. Once I finished drawing the basic shape of the drawings, I went over it with the 2B graphite pencil, purifying each line. This made it so it was more visible, and looked less rough because I erased the few lighter lines underneath.

This process of drawing the three different views of a shoe took a few steps to create, as well as drawing the pure contour of a hand. The first step in this process was drawing the rough contour of a few different shoes and a hand. I began with the 2H graphite pencil and followed that by purifying each line, making sure to erase the feathery lines of the 2H pencil. Along the process, I also tried to add the most amount of details, to make it look the most realistic, including some stitch marks on the converse and adding wrinkles on my hand.