Finished the lines Segment of Drawing Basics.....now what?
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Jake
After reaching the end of the "intuitive perspective" part of the Drawing Basics course, the course goes towards shading and edges, before coming to an end. My line work needs a lot more work and is what I want to focus on. Of course, the way is to redo the lessons over and over, practice and practice. My mind is wondering as to what next, however. I'm most enthusiastic about drawing people, and I do have the portrait and figure drawing courses. My line work was holding me back when I tried the portraiture course, so I purchased the Drawing Basics course. A lot of the Artistic Resources online mostly cater towards people drawing and i'm magnetised towards that but get let down by my art work.
Has any body else had this struggle? I'll include a few examples of where I am up to. I'd appreciate any feedback. Note I have been trying to teach myself to draw on and off, for nearly 20 years, before going to the Drawing Basics course. Learning is hard for me I guess.
I felt like I was getting okay at lines after drawing basics and then started working in ink and realized from the wayward lines I drew I still needed to do lots of basic exercises, swatches of curves and parallel lines and such. The exercises like drawing a line to connect two points, tracing the ruler, filling a page with circles and such do pay off eventually. But even doing those regularly I still need to use “ghosting” to put a line or curve where I want it, and pay attention to direction and turn the page if it’s an awkward angle. Keep going and make your own exercises! Getting a positive feedback loop going with simple exercises helps.
I am someone who is also quite a beginner at drawing but I think maybe quick sketches would help your lines get better. trying to draw 30 second poses for an hour. You try to keep your rand very quick trying to finish the sketch. So you intuitively start drawing with less and longer lines.
On the other hand Scott Robertson's draw slow but with one line and carefully mindset also helped me.
That's a good idea, I do get caught up too much in the method and not the doing. Tonight i'll aim to do a long session (if I can manage an hour then great) of quick poses. I'll burn through a lot of paper, but I use cheap printer paper anyway and can put some music on :D .
