Pumpkins are a great example for contour lines.
All the lines a pumpkin begin at the top of the stem and end at the navel on the bottom.
What other objects have lines that start at the top and end at the bottom?
Once you learn the concept of drawing contour lines, you can draw so much more!
When drawing the pumpkin, start with the shape and size drawn lightly with a pencil.
Draw a straight line down the middle.
Contour lines curve to the left on the left side and curve right to the right side.
They ends of the lines join back up with the original middle straight line.
Add stem details.
When it looks right, make it darker or outline with marker....
Add fun color to the background to emphasize and make the pumpkins pop out.
Use references for ZenTangles, doodles, or types of lines to fill in each area.
See the above done in fast motion here...
Advanced Alternative, Use a pencil to color along the left sides of each bump. Use a q-tip to blend the pencil.
I used markers above and crayons below.
Either will work our great.
