Drawing depends first on really seeing what’s in front of you, contour drawing can help train your hand to follow your eyes. By Diane Olivier Over the years, people develop a manner of “seeing” that ...

Assuming that children make drawings as artists do, by selecting drawing systems appropriate to their intention from a repertoire, this study asked what systems for contour and form children from ...

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Figure/ground & Negative/positive space--The relationship between the surrounding negative space, and the object being drawn. Contour line--Line that delineates both the outside edges of the object ...

We love to separate art into neat categories, painting, drawing, sculpture, as if they belong to different worlds. But what ...