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Founder of Proko, artist and teacher of drawing, painting, and anatomy. I try to make my lessons fun and ultra packed with information.
LESSON NOTES
As artists, line quality plays a crucial role in our drawings. Developing good habits early on ensures that our artwork leaves a strong impression. In this lesson, we discuss 6 habits to help you achieve good line quality. You’ll learn how to avoid the common mistakes, find a comfortable speed, follow-through, ghost in your lines, rotate the paper, and use simple strokes. Remember to practice these habits while sketching, and check out the full Drawing Basics course for more in-depth lessons, projects, and demonstrations.
Related Links:
3 Types of Lines and How to Use Them
How to Draw Confident Lines - The Tapered Stroke
Produce Better Drawings with this Sketching Warmup
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Line quality plays a crucial role in our drawings. And if you keep practicing those bad habits, they're gonna get even stronger and harder to shake. But don't worry, in this lesson, I'll show you 6 habits to get you on the path to good line quality.
I don't know why but rotating the shoulders for the awkward lines was so obvious but I didn't even think of it until it was mentioned here lmao
Day 3 .So from what I learned ..I use confident lines and tried using long stokes rather than small sketchy ones and also did some ghosting ..So here I am
Don’t know if this count but I am coming back here with better and different art pieces try out, also forgot to draw the characters with I line instead of C.S.
Does anyone know if the ghosting method will help with drawing egg shapes
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14d
Yes, ghosting helps with any sort of line you want to put down, and ellipses/egg shapes can be particularly tricky so ghosting can be a useful tool to implement. But also try out one of the first warm-ups from this course Warmup - Mushrooms as that is also beneficial for ellipses :)
I'm sure it's possible with enough practice of redoing the egg shape over and over again everyday, but I think it's best to stick with the methods and shapes that we're being instructed to do in this lesson. I'm sure that we'll go over more organic shapes and methods later on in this course.
How do you draw an egg shape using the ghosting method
Break the form into 2 strokes: a larger, circular C curve for the large bottom of the egg shape, and a slightly tapered / sharp C curve for the more narrow top portion of the shape.
You learn to draw people and faces or anything you want by starting the basics of drawing or fundamentals. It takes time, there isn't a fast way to learn to draw
How do you draw an egg shape
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7mo
Get your sketchbook and start practicing basic shapes! Get egg reference and draw what you see! To me, it's kind of like drawing a circle, but then suddenly my pencil makes one elongated curved line. bam! Egg. Keep practicing!
"Don't move your hand faster than your brain can think."
Jim Lee thinks fast as f... Jokes apart, this a very good piece of advice and helps me a lot, often I notice that my line quality is bad, or my precision is off because I am anxious, and going too fast without looking where I'm going.
If you are trying to draw a C curve, do you ghost a full circle? I’m trying to keep my arm moving but I’m not sure how to go from the end of the line back to the beginning.
I guess most of the time, that would be an ellipse more than a circle. But at some point, the theory become a bit useless, you've got to try and solve it for yourself ;)
I have been away for a month and feel slightly behind in my drawing skills. Thank you Proko, for having this community, which has been helpful in getting me back on track. Time to get my line quality solid again ! :D
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1yr
Glad you're back at it! Looking forward to seeing your work!
I was struggling to understand the point of tapering, but this video helps a lot. Ghosting aids the start of a taper and Follow-Through aids the end of a taper. So it's like I'm drawing part of an unseen line that starts before my line and ends after my line. My line appears when the ghost meets the page and it disappears before it ends.
Hi there!
I have filled many sheets of paper with just lines, but I can't seem to get the hang of tapering the start of a stroke. Getting the end tapered is not a problem. I have practiced the "landing and take off" method but somehow I keep getting an abrupt "landing". Does anyone have any tips on getting this part smoother?
Thank you!
Those lines are pretty nice already.
I found that when I relax more and start moving my pencil before putting it on the paper it start tapering. Also, I think of my pencil as feeling like a brush and that works pretty well too. So relax and don't push the pencil down, let it fall naturally on the paper, as if it just happens to be there while you're moving.
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2yr
Keep practicing! Fill pages and pages of lines. When drawing the line, I use less pressure>add more pressure for the middle of the line>then less pressure for the end of the line. The hard landing is a struggle for sure but I'm sure you'll get there!
When I first saw this video on youtube and stan said, wait for a minute, think what you wanna draw, and tthen move--- it increased my drawing quality so much that I was like I HAVE TO SIGN UP FOR THIS CLASS. Before and after:
Is it just me or is the tip #3 missing? :D
