Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name)
4. [processes and techniques by specific type]
5. [image-making processes and techniques]
6. [drawing and drawing techniques]
7. drawing techniques

Narrower term/s

• blind contour drawing (technique)
• cross-contour drawing (technique)

Anotations

Scope note:

Line drawing technique, often used as a training exercise, where the artist or student draws an outline of a subject without lifting their pencil from paper, and without glancing down at the drawing. The method was popularized by Kimon Nicolaïdes in his book The Natural Way to Draw (1941).