Blind contour is an exercise where you draw the life model, as slowly as you can, without looking at the paper, in one single stroke. The aim is to equate the sense of touch with drawing. And it’s hard. It’s really hard.
One sketch is supposed to take a half an hour. But my eyes deceive me, and before I know it my sketch is done, 5 minutes later. Everything is everted, the hand touches the leg, the legs cross the head. Sometimes you can’t even tell what the model was doing. But.. once in a blue moon. I get this sensation of my pencil being my eyes, and the paper being the model. It’s like something inside my brain clicks, and connects the experience. I’m sure that this is the ultimate aim. But hours and hours of sketches have produced few of those moments. Still, I must keep trying.