Blind Contour





BLIND CONTOUR DRAWING

 

Popularized by Kimon Nicolaïdes in 1941

Involves observing and carefully dawing the contour of an object without lifting up the medium or looking at the page

 

“The reason most people have difficulty drawing realistically is not because of any lack of physical skill or talent but because they have not been trained to really look at what they see.” ---Terry O’Day, the chair of the art department at Pacific University, in Forest Grove, Oregon