Sketching Techniques Specialization

Overview

“In this lesson, Tom Fox will teach you how to use silhouette and contour lines to enhance the sense of form in your drawings. You'll learn how starting with a strong silhouette helps define a subject and how adding contour and cross-contour lines creates depth and volume. Focusing on these techniques will make your sketches feel more three-dimensional.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Silhouette and Contour Lines , which is part of the Domestika online course: Sketching Techniques Specialization. Explore the power of sketching alongside top-notch drawing masters..

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson we'll talk about silhouette and contour lines and how to use them to improve the feeling of form in our work. Okay so let's get started. So I'll just do a little exercise here and ask how many seconds into this drawing do you identify what I'm drawing? So probably about now I'm guessing that you might be able to identify that this is Mickey Mouse. The main point is that your idea of something as in your identification of it comes largely from the proportions which we've already spoken about and also from the silhouette. So you were probably able to tell maybe that this was Mi...”

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Course summary for: Sketching Techniques Specialization

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (93)
• 8783 students
• 9 units
• 94 lessons (15h 44m)
• 51 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Architectural Illustration, Artistic Drawing, Botanical Illustration, Character Design, Children's Illustration, Colored Pencil Drawing, Creativity, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Gouache Painting, Ink Illustration, Naturalistic Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting