Embedding the Continuous Line Exercise in your Teaching & Learning
Explore the links below to see how the Continuous Line Drawing Exercise can be embedded in teaching and learning to help improve and inspire drawing skills. It can be used in a variety of contexts to develop a whole range of skills, including:
Skills:
Careful observation
Hand eye coordination
Slowing down, tuning in
Seeing detail
Seeing relationships between parts
Mark Making (via pressure and speed)
Contexts:
Research before an activity, ie. looking and drawing before painting or making
Transition (to calm or settle)
Development (continuous line drawings over other types of marks)
Explorations:
Mono Printing
Urban Sketching
Natural Landscape
Life Drawing
Portraits
Drawing Movement
Fabric and Fashion
Reflections
Flora and Fauna
Find out how to do a Continuous Line Drawing: Video for Learners
See How to Make A Continuous Line Drawing
Using a Continuous Line Drawing to Help See and Explore
Drawing from Photographs
Pushing Looking
Seeing Structures
Dominant & Non-Dominant Hand
Continuous Line to See Relationships
Preparation & Thinking
Research Before Making
Seeing Before Painting
Monoprinting
Adapt… Think Laterally About How You Can Adapt These Exercises to Expand Continuous Line Drawings
Making a Shy Drawing
Visualisation
Making a Scroll Drawing
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