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These are the contours I stayed after class to do. Well a small sample of them any way. 

This is a contour drawing. We used colored pencil. You draw very slowly using with your pencil as parallel to the paper as possible. I am really bad at it. Although the ones I picked to put on here are pretty decent (lots of practice). We get 5 minutes for these 

This is a conte blocking. You take a piece of conte and use one tone to lay out the basic shape of the person, then you press harder to get another tone for the shadows. You only shade in the darkest shadows and you only use the 2 tones. You also only use the broad side of the conte. The purpose for all that is you just want an abstract form, no details. He looks like a samurai. I love it.  

This is a gesture drawing. They are fun to do, but complicated. You have to sit at the far edge of the bench with your arm straight, drawing by only moving your shoulder and/or elbow, holding the pencil at the back and so lightly that the teacher could just tap your hand and it would fly out. You have to scribble and draw in circles not using any straight lines and then when you get everything laid out you can go back and make a few areas darker. All while not picking up your china marker. (we use china markers not pencils for these) And it’s done in 1-3 minutes.  

Another gesture, same woman 

This is the second line drawing I did. I got alot farther on this and I think the only thing the teacher did was the lines on the face. 

This is the first straightline drawing we did for class. This took me the whole week to do and I didn’t get hardly any of her legs finished. Plus I think my teacher did some of it. God that one was so hard. It’s the same lady as the the one I got to use pencil and white charcoal on.