Transcript 3. Drawing - contour 2.ppt

EXAGGERATED
CONTOURS
Exaggerated Contour
Drawing exaggerated contours is the chance for the artist
to use their own personal creativity and imagination. The
artist intentionally promotes distortion, while other contour
drawing ask you not to distort. In exaggerated contours you
reduce or enlarge, add something non-existing, stretch parts
out of shape, magnify part out of proportion, or merge items
into a new object.
It is important that whatever method you use to create your
exaggerated contour, you must use a contour line for all of it.
Exaggerated Contour
Addition
The owl was completed
in careful S & I contour
lines with glasses and
bow tie added.
Exaggerated Contour
Stretching
This boot is carefully
contoured with the top
stretched out of proportion
to the rest of it.
Exaggerated Contour
Magnification
The head and shoulders are
enlarged by magnification.
The artist drew a magnifying
glass, but you could just
enlarge an area within a
shape.
Exaggerated Contour
Merging
This student merged two items in our room into one object. She
carefully contoured both items by careful observation.
CROSS
CONTOURS
Cross Contour
Cross contour teaches you to observe spatial changes that
occur in an object. Cross contour describes horizontal and
vertical sectional lines rather than details of the object. It
teaches you to observe topographical surfaces of the object.
You first outline the object in a contour line. Then you
lightly outline the interior shapes (like S & I) in a contour line.
Then you cross contour in one direction, following the
contours of the object. Then finish by cross contouring in the
other direction following the contours of the object.
All lines are done in a contour line.
Notice that the lines are closer together on the outside of the
shape to give a three-dimensional look. To make the inside
appear further away the lines are closer still. All lines follow
the curve of the object.
Notice the cross contour lines follow the shape or curves of the rabbit.
The lines are closer together at the edges to accentuate its roundness.
The contours of the boot is carefully followed
in this nice cross contour drawing.
Notice the lines start at the top of the iron and continue down to the
base of it. You do not do each part in separate sections. You follow
the shape of the iron in a continuous line from top to bottom.
This drawing is left with cross contour line only in one direction to
dramatically show the shape of the iron.
Harold Tovish
Contour Drawing
1972
Pencil
The cross-contours
illustrate the dips and
swells of the features. This
technique can be used to
describe the surface of any
subject being interpreted.