DRAWING STRATEGIES CHECKLIST
1. Contour Blind and Modified blind) (Don't Look at paper when drawing!)
- Continuous, flowing line
- Concentration and coordination (slow speed, so hand can map the path of the eyes)
- scale (close to size of the actual subject)
- Observed, not schematic image
- Placement on page (composition)
- start with contour line
- Focus on shapes between and around subject (holes)
- No overlaps or inside shapes
- Flat silhouette
- Interesting, unified composition
- (If optical illusion is added - Does it work? Stop at pencil edge? Careful line? Good use of color? Neatly erased so only patterns show?
- In proportion
- negative shapes accurate
- Internal contours accurate, if time permits to do them
- Cuts towards ceiling
- Bottom shape is of model, not edge of paper
- observed, not schematic
- Used action line as support and to show motion
- Used sighting strategy for proportion (head as measuring module to compare proportions)
- In proportion
- No details
- Angles correct
- feet point correct way
- Observed, not schematic
- Edited for accuracy
- Negative shapes accurate
- Form, not flat cut out
- Scribbles reflect form and size
- Create 3-d form by placing values in correct place and shape
- Concentration - Look long, paint freely
- Shape of light and shadow accurate
- Proportions observed
- Well composed on page Varied brush strokes
- Incorporates prior strategies
- Work from large to small
- Work from general to specific
- As a starting point, enclose subject or part of subject in light geometric shape that contains the form