The drawings on this page are recent student contour drawings. As you look through them, pay attention to the quality of the lines themselves. These are not casual, confident outlines. They are slow, focused, searching lines — honest records of sustained looking. At times they stutter and skip with the pressure and angle of the tool; at others they flow smooth and even. They shift in width, lighten, darken, double back. The final images show each drawing photographed alongside the object that was drawn, offering a sense of the relationship between what was seen and what was recorded on the page.
