Mastering Cross Contour Lines - the Laser Beam Method!

Register for our live online workshop (it’s free): You can choose from two timeslots - either Tuesday 15th September at 3pm UK time or Wednesday 16th September at 9pm UK time. The workshop will cover a strategy for simplifying the figure to more easily understand the gesture, construction and proportions all at once. We’ll also look at the best strategy for learning life drawing, and we’ll look at our new upcoming course! Stay up to date, get our free guide and more weekly tips with our newsletter here: This video is all about one of my favourite tools for giving the figure form and making it 3D - cross contour lines. They are more intuitive than using boxes and cylinders because you can feel them wrapping around the form you are seeing. In fact, they are also often called wrapping lines. One of the most common errors I see with cross contours is to draw them curving the wrong way. The way they curve