Blind Contour

Recently in class we have started blind contour drawings. A Blind contour drawing is done when the artist looks intently at edges of an object, but never looks at the paper while the pencil moves. They call it blind because you are not allowed to look at the page while you draw.

This blind contour drawing was made by the artist not looking at the page but only looking at their hand.

Some reason why we do these drawings are because it is a good warm up before starting a final drawing. It develops good hand eye coordination, it develops the right brain muscles.

Greek figures

Koros is an ancient Greek statue of a nude male youth standing with the left leg forward and arms at the sides. 

This koros Greek statue is marble kouros from anavyssos in Attica which functioned as a grave maker for a fallen young warrior named kroisos. the free-standing sculpture strides forward with the "archaic smile"playing slightly on his face. The sculpture is dated to c. 540-515 BC and stands 1.95 meters high.