If you reduce a sketch entirely to dark and light, then choose all your values darker than the middle in shadow areas and all your light values higher than the middle, the light falling on your painting will look vivid and real. That could help me plan the painting overall. Reduced to just two values, light and dark, creates a simple kind of I might create still more small shapes within some of them for lighter and darker values. If I were going to paint this woman in oil pastels, I would work out the relative value of each of these contour areas. Copy some of the shapes by hand without regard to what they are, to see how you can show the shapes of features and make them three dimensional by drawing weird-shaped shadows accurately. Try to see which shapes are going to be light or dark, looking at it. Here is a contour drawing of the same woman's head in pencil, without any of the contour areas filled in. It's a short but important step to draw shadows as irregular lines and spaces. Negative space drawing teaches artists to see the shapes of spaces. It's just weird and irregular so it's easier to copy without distraction. Drawing an accurate contour of the spaces is easier because you have no preconceived notion of what that space is. Until you have lots of practice with something specific like drawing a person, you'll tend to draw what you think is there rather than what's there. Negative space is shaded in on this one to show how an accurate line can be created just by drawing the space around your subject. Also on the right the line of a stray hair dangling got in as well as a contour drawing of her head shape. That isn't a perfect example because I followed the line of her neck at first and didn't notice the line of her hair falling against it. Her silhouette is white and you can already tell it's a person from the shape of the contour line - created by drawing the space where she isn't. In this first simple contour drawing, I've shown just the line defining the negative space around a woman's head and shaded in the background. To begin, let's look again at negative space.ĭrawing the area around the subject is often more accurate than drawing the outline of the subject itself. They won't turn out looking as well as a careful contour drawing done without those special rules, but they are a fun challenge that can improve the accuracy of your sketching. Both of these are useful for understanding the complexities of line. Some interesting exercises artists use are blind contour drawing - looking at the subject without looking at your hand to see where the line goes - or a continuous line version, where you don't lift your pencil from the paper from beginning to end. This is a line sketch that describes not just the shape of the subject or the negative space around the subject, but also the shadow areas within the outline of the subject. Nearly every painting begins with some form of contour drawing.
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