Out of Line: Drawing Prompts | RISD Museum | Rhode Island School of Design

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Out of Line: A Drawing Space for All was an interim open studio space in the RISD Museum Chace Center which accompanied the exhibition Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to Now: From the British Museum. Daily prompts, demonstrations, collaborations, and other creative experiments offered hands-on opportunities to use drawing as a tool to imagine, discover, and explore. Guided sessions ran October through January 2018. This is a collection of video drawing prompts inspired by artists from the past and present designed to accompany the studio events.

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360° Drawing

RISD Museum, Priscila de Carvalho, Dana Heng, and Shirla Auguste

Choose an object. Draw its outline. Turn the object slightly. Draw its outline. Repeat. Repeat.
Automatic Drawing

RISD Museum, Priscila de Carvalho, Dana Heng, and Shirla Auguste

Without looking, allow your hand to move randomly across the paper. Stop. What forms do you see? Add to these form
Blind Contour Drawing

RISD Museum, Priscila de Carvalho, Dana Heng, and Shirla Auguste

Choose an object and examine its outline. Slowly track the edge with your eyes while drawing what you see in a continuous line. Do not lift your pencil or look at the paper.
Detail Drawing: Beeswax

RISD Museum, Priscila de Carvalho, Dana Heng, and Shirla Auguste

Choose an object. Draw every possible detail of one portion of the object. Omit nothing.
Detail Drawing: Bird

RISD Museum, Priscila de Carvalho, Dana Heng, and Shirla Auguste

Choose an object. Draw every possible detail of one portion of the object. Omit nothing.
Dream Drawing

RISD Museum, Priscila de Carvalho, Dana Heng, and Shirla Auguste

Draw a scene from a dream you have had.
Gift Drawing

RISD Museum, Priscila de Carvalho, Dana Heng, and Shirla Auguste

Ask someone to choose an object and to describe it to you in detail without revealing what that object is. Draw exactly what they describe. Give this drawing to someone.
Map Drawing

RISD Museum, Priscila de Carvalho, Dana Heng, and Shirla Auguste

Draw a map of your day until this moment.
Minimal Drawing: Antler

RISD Museum, Priscila de Carvalho, Dana Heng, and Shirla Auguste

Choose an object. Draw it with the fewest number of lines possible.
Minimal Drawing: Coral

RISD Museum, Priscila de Carvalho, Dana Heng, and Shirla Auguste

Choose an object. Draw it with the fewest number of lines possible.
Minimal Drawing: Nautilus

RISD Museum, Priscila de Carvalho, Dana Heng, and Shirla Auguste

Choose an object. Draw it with the fewest number of lines possible.
Negative Drawing

RISD Museum, Priscila de Carvalho, Dana Heng, and Shirla Auguste

Choose an object. Begin to draw everything that surrounds the object. Continue until all that’s left is a silhouette of the object.