Extended Blind Contour Drawings

This work was made by using blind contour. This is a method to create abstract lines by not looking at the paper while you draw something you see, without lifting your pencil. I used a sharpie for the main lines and watercolor for the color and roses. I incorporated the blind contour by drawing the hands and the face without looking. This was hard because obviously, you can't see what you are drawing. But when I looked back at the page after I drew my first hand blindly, I made some adjustments the next time so I could get the desired art I wanted. My project went from colorless and with some blank scribbles, to more detailed scribbles, to a colorful and balanced work of art.

I used lots of lines, pattern, unity, and texture with the lines running across the page, and the face incorporates emphasis and contrast. The roses and back round create shapes, color, value, balance, and space. The hands bring lines and balance.

The feel of this work is quite eerie and mysterious. I'm not sure where I got the idea for this but the black eyes, wilted roses, pale-skinned hands with veins popping out and snake-like veins coming out of the person's mouth make the sinister. The work does not relate to anything in my life, for I have not had veins shooting out of my mouth. I am proudest of the roses because even though they didn't come out as I wanted them to, they were the hardest to draw and paint. Painting these, I also kept running out of the color I had mixed, so they are all different shades of pink. I overcame this by just going with it. That was definitely a struggle for me.