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>>OLIVIA SWISHER: Take your charcoal and I want you
to go over your paper every
which way.
What I'm doing now is I'm drawing
with my charcoal; there's no right or wrong.
Just make lines all over your paper
with the charcoal.
Use the point.
Use the side.
Use your whole paper.
And keep that big motion of waving in the air
over your paper.
The next thing we're going to do is going
to involve touching with one hand while drawing
with the other.
I'm going to demonstrate up here.
I'm going to put my charcoal on the paper, and I'm going
to feel a corner of my book.
And I'm going to draw -- this is funny paper.
It's weird, you guys.
I didn't notice the paper until I closed my eyes.
All of a sudden I know what my
paper is like.
It's shiny.
The rule of contour drawing is never lift your charcoal
up from your paper.
My right finger is now tracing my book,
and my left finger -- left hand is drawing what I feel.
And my page is bending while I draw it which
is funny.
I have to use my whole arm just
like I did with my warm up.
I have to press harder probably than
I'm pressing.
And I'm drawing the individual pages
of the book.
I like to use the comparison of a piece of string so that
by the time my drawing is done, it will be like a single piece
of string that I could lift off the paper,
because I'm never, ever lifting my hand
from the charcoal and from the paper.
So now I'd like you to try the same thing.
Everybody have an adjective
for the charcoal and the paper?
What comes to mind?
How does it feel?
>> It depends.
>>OLIVIA SWISHER: How does it sound?
What's it like to draw with your charcoal
on the paper?
I like to use the side thing.
>>OLIVIA SWISHER: Oh, you like to use the side.
>> I like to use the side, so it's softer.
>>OLIVIA SWISHER: Other comments and thoughts
about your paper or your charcoal?
>> Reminds me of candy.
>>OLIVIA SWISHER: Sounds edible.