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Blind contour sketch in Sharpie (less than one minute)

Knocked this drawing out in the car tres quickly en route to the public pool for an exercise session. 

It's not a very good drawing (nor is it a good likeness of the subject) but that's to be expected with these sorts of renderings.  You see, in a contour drawing one does not typically lift the tip of his or her pen or pencil from the surface of the paper until the drawing (or a portion of the drawing) has been completed and in a 'blind' contour drawing, the artist does not look down at his paper until either a section of the drawing - or in some cases, the entire drawing - has been completed.

This particular drawing, come to think of it, is more of a 'partially' blind contour (I looked down at my story pad a couple of times).  I do these little drawings a lot, actually, primarily because contour and blind contour drawings are great exercises for training one's eye to more accurately 'see' the forms one is trying to record . . .