Chapter 13 Visual Communication: Drawings, Renderings, and Models 445 Copyright Goodheart-Willcox Co., Inc. exercise. You can lift your drawing tool off the paper, however, and reset it down where you want. If the results are similar at all, you have been successful. This exercise can sometimes be frustrating. Use about 1 to 5 minutes for this sketch, but do not hurry. ■ No look. Your objective is to learn to look at all details of an object. Select a new object or use your non-drawing hand for this sketch. Place the object in front of you. As you look at it, set your pencil or pen on the paper and begin drawing. Do not look at your paper at any time during this Sherilyn (Lixue) Yin, International transfer design student, CSU, ECNU/ Shidong Yin , Senior Photographer Figure 13-17 Contour drawings follow the visible edges of a form. Sherilyn (Lixue) Yin, International transfer design student, CSU, ECNU/ Shidong Yin , Senior Photographer Figure 13-18 The “no lift” and “no look” contour sketching exercises helps you learn to look for the details in the objects you are sketching.