Today, we'll be talking about two types of contour drawing: Blind Contour and Modified Contour Drawing. You'll need colorful or just simply black Sharpies (preferably color) and your paper (Newprint is great paper for this type of lesson), Pencils are a no-no so you can't erase your mistakes. Mistakes are okay in art, I promise!
Blind Contour
You will need to hold their left hand in a position you can hold and draw, or your right hand if you're left handed. and have your hand far away from the paper so you can't look at your paper (it's called blind contour for a reason). Without looking at the paper, start drawing the outline of your hand while staring at it. Try to not pick up your marker, but it you do, continue at the same place you picked the marker up from and keep drawing the lines of your hand. Keep drawing until you finish the outline of your hand. Once you finish the outline, THEN you can look at the paper and see what you've drawn. Repeat this for 4 more different hand positions. You'll be surprised at what you draw.Modified Contour
This technique is everyone's favorite because now you can look at the paper! With this one, you will still hold your hand in a position and draw the lines of your hand while still focusing mainly on your hand, only checking your paper to see how it's looking. This type of contour should be more detailed since you can see what you're drawing on the paper, but still try not to pick up the marker if you can help it. Repeat this also 4 more times either on the same sheet of paper or you can get a whole new sheet.
To turn this into a lesson, you could have students take turns being models and have the class draw both a blind contour drawing and a modified one on big sheets on paper (again, Newprint is the key). Depending on how long your class is, each student could be a model. This is a great lesson to do at the beginning of the year, because it's fun to do and you don't want to put too much on your students soon as school has started!
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