This week you are to choose an interesting chair--a folding chair or a dining room chair or similar--and make an observational drawing of it. You must fill a page of your sketchbook with your chair drawing, but you are NOT to crop the chair at all. In other words it should not touch any of the edges of your paper, and you are not to change it in order to keep it on the page!
Focus on the shape of the negative (background) spaces throughout the chair, and trust that if you accurately get the shape of the negative space, then the positive space (the silhouette of the chair it itself) will automatically be the right shape.
Once you have an accurate silhouette shape, allow the positive space to remain the white of the paper, and fill in the negative space an even black with a soft pencil. Make sure the edges where the positive meets the negative are nice and sharp!
Have fun and good luck!
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