There are None so Blind...

As those who will not see....

And now done with the social commentary and on with the blind contour drawing assignment.

This is my first try at making a Gollum hand.....my Precious.....

The second time I tried to draw the lines inside the hand as well as the outline. This completely messed up where the fingers were, though I notice the lines are in approximately the same place.

The third time I came closest to making something hand-like:

Then I moved onto the dashboard of my car....vents, knobs, radio and channel switching tabs:

Since it didn't really have one single outline like a hand, I tried to make decisions about when to sneak the pen across to a different part of what I was drawing.

I then went back to my hand....becoming more hand-like except the thumb.

Then I tried to do one with the paper visible, still mostly looking at the hand, but looking down every so often. Again without lifting pen from paper.

I finally allowed myself to sketch it, drawing a sort of mutton shape and then the hand with the fingers outstretched. It certainly made me think about the bumps that you find on fingers between the knuckles.

Similarly, I sketched the dashboard, relishing the ability to fit in all the text. This dashboard will probably appear in my dreams, I use it so often.

Looking at a partially obscured car in a nearby parking lot (yes, I am doing the waiting in the car thing again).

And the gearshift in my car. I can see some design ideas here, in the pattern that the car allows the stick to follow.

My hand facing me, sort of like the letter "e" in sign language. The thumb is weird but the fingers look interesting in the visual sketch.

Last is a blind contour drawing I did of myself, looking in a mirror, for an embroidery class I took long ago.  I liked this one so much I embroidered it for my assignment and now I use it as my avatar on social media. It seems to capture me in some crooked and warped manner. :-)

I do like like the spontaneity of the blind contour drawings. Except for the distant car, most of them are loosely recognizable as something.....

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NOTE: This study is from an online design class I am taking with Lyric Kinard called The Artist's Toolbox, part 1. Information on the next offering of this class can be found here: https://app.ruzuku.com/courses/34574/about.