When drawing any object or shape, you already have the familiar advantage of seeing these things before. Visualize the shape by using your hand to gauge the distance where these details are drawn. These lines can include small details that can form wrinkles and small details. So, the pressure you place on your pencil needs to go through the motion of following an outline. The style you will draw doesn’t always need to be a continuous line. Įssentially the outline of an object is the goal you want to reach here. The kicker about this type of practice art is to strengthen your cognitive skills and recall abilities. These tips will help give you a better understanding of the coordination between your hand and your eyesight. These are loose rules, so you can rely on any or all of these tips that I’ll provide. Now with all that being said so far, there are some important instructions you should stick to.

After all, they are still a form of art! Drawing Contours From Observational Skills Any one of these drawing ideas should be dated, titled, and saved. One of the more popular choices that I’ll discuss later is a blind contour drawing of your hand.

When it comes to a common object, stick to simple things like a flower vase, a lamp, or a chair. Flowers make a great example since they are simple shapes with repetitive patterns from the flower petals.įaces are also simple since you can easily visualize stand-out details such as eyes, nose, face shape, and mouth. If you’re just starting out and haven’t done this exercise before, stick with simple objects like flowers, faces, or common objects. Some ideas that are perfect for drawing using the blind contour method will range from very simple objects to complicated shapes. This was nearly 100 years ago, and the concept was welcomed by the artist community in NYC.

Ironically, these exercises were popularized by the artist Kimon Nicolaides. Sure, it will look messy and unorganized at first, but with a few instructional tips, you’ll learn the right way. Collectively, these results suggest that a fat face illusion is obtained when there is sufficient information in the stimulus to activate an internal face schema.The whole point of blind contour drawing is to build a stronger connection between your eyes and how that information is translated to your hand. However, the magnitude of the effect was significantly weaker than the effect obtained for empty face contour in experiment 2. In experiment 3 internal face features arranged in their canonical face layout, but not in a scrambled layout, were found to induce the illusion. In experiment 2 line drawing faces with scrambled internal features and empty line drawing faces devoid of internal features were found to induce the illusion. In experiment 1 line drawing faces were found to induce the illusion, suggesting that face contour is important for producing the illusion. Here we conducted three experiments probing the role that face contour plays in producing the fat face illusion. Neither inverted faces nor clocks induced the illusion. Sun et al (2012 Perception 41 117-120) observed that one of the faces need not be inverted for the illusion to emerge: when two identical faces are presented one above the other, the face at the bottom appears 'fatter' than the top one. In 2010 Thompson reported a 'fat face thin' illusion that, when next to an inverted face, an upright face looks 'fatter'.

Contour face drawing