mk30 on Nostr: I'm not great at drawing, and many drawing techniques don't make sense to me. ...

I'm not great at drawing, and many drawing techniques don't make sense to me. However, I find that drawing with contour lines makes a lot of sense and helps me shape an object.

Here's sculptor Henry Moore talking about a unique form of contour line drawing that he developed for himself: "Around the late 1920s, I found a personal way of describing three- dimensional form, using line, without light and shade. I let my pencil follow an imagined horizontal section of the form I was drawing and then change direction, at right angles, to follow the vertical section. These ‘sectional lines’ are a shorthand method of describing three-dimensional form."

Here are a few examples of the technique. It's very nice and I might try adopting it myself next time I need to draw!

Quote and images are from the book "Henry Moore: drawings 1969-79"

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