You would think that students automatically know that our bodies are three dimensional and not flat. But when they draw portraits and figures they always start off with a flatness. I tried to help them get a sense of space by having them draw cross contour lines on flat images, pretending that the person was wrapped in string or had lines projected onto them. This is far less intimidating then doing a cross contour drawing of someone on a blank piece of paper. It's a quick and easy exercise with hopefully lasting results when it comes to creating the illusion of dimension on a piece of paper.
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