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.
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drowningoranges
1mo
Here’s my attempt at line quality…
Crimson The Kitsune
2mo
30/7/2023
Practice Warm up before Studies.
Crimson The Kitsune
3mo
12/6/2023
Decided to do more practice for today, however I think I’m gonna do more for today after taking a break.
Criticisms are welcomed. (I need to do more for the basic drawing course.)
Crimson The Kitsune
4mo
5/6/2023
I just did a little more drawing with some practice of connect the dots with ovals. Tell me how I could improve on them as they feel wonky.
Crimson The Kitsune
4mo
4/6/2023
Did a few good tapered strokes for today as practice, gonna head to the gesture course for a quick session with Proko, just to try and utilised them. (I’ve got 1 quick session ready for the morning too!)
Criticisms are welcomed.
CD
4mo
Master study Mary Blair
Jeramiah Escobar
4mo
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Samantha Maggard
6mo
I have been working on some figure gesture drawings while waiting for the next drawing basics assignment.
N. Yeagy
6mo
I see you are studying Force Drawing too!
6mo
Good start on using FORCE. I suggest you stick to rhythms fist instead of going immediately tot he shapes.
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scott ford
6mo
Samantha I love these , they are great
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KringleBelle
6mo
This was an important lesson. I never tried moving my arm in various directions before and I’m noticing areas where i need to practice. For instance, tracing the straight line with an overhand grip going upward was much easier than going downward. The downward motion needs more practice. I will say that my practice sketches line quality is improving!
Adil Bahadır
6mo
Took some liberties with this one :)
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6mo
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Florian Haeckh
6mo
my practice pages. I also added a 5 minute figure drawing to keep it more interesting :)
Hazel
6mo
"Don't move your hand faster than your brain can think" Been drawing for two years and this never occurred to me lmao
Canyon Braff
4mo
same here hahah.. it has effected my hand writing my whole life
scott ford
6mo
Hazel, same here, my brain is in high speed hand not so much, so I am learning to slow my thinking down
Hazel
6mo
it makes it so much easier T.T
Juice
6mo
I start to looking forward to the perspective part. Because of perspective? No. Because of Marshall i miss Marshall 😄 You are fun together.

VAGABOND
6mo
Day 261: Some really good tips in this one Mr.Proko. I think its really cool to see that im pulling off more confident lines but also even cooler that there is so much that I still need to practice. Overall I think I have a more clear idea about taper strokes and now I know where and how I can improve my line quality further. DRAWING IMPROVEMENT DRAW ON! DRAW ON! DRAW ON!
Tony Zhang
6mo
Did somebody say “messy searching lines”…?
Guilty as charged. I think that’s basically because I have no knowledge of building blocks or perspective so I have to keep trying so many different ideas and that’s extra hard if I don’t use messy searching lines.
Juice
6mo
I think your sketch would improve very much just by drawing lighter till you are sure of wich lines you want. Digitally maybe using a lighter color at first? Me myself think it is very hard sketching digitally. I sketch on paper first. But thats me that havent learned it yet. And maybe my ipad feels to small for sketching. Btw i like your style. It will be fun to see you improve bye learning more of perspective and other things in the course.
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Nathan
6mo
Somehow rotating the paper eluded me for a long time. I think part of it was that in High School we only ever used big newsprint pads and it just never occurred to me since then.
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."
-Bruce Lee
Whenever I'm doing warmups I'm reminded of that quote. In this case, replace kicks with strokes. Though "fear" may be a bit dramatic.
I also noticed using a permanent medium like pen helped me to slow down and think. If I've gone a while without trying something in pen I find myself regressing to overly-searching lines. It is a tendency I have to fight. Along with being heavy-handed.
Those are my thoughts on what I've gone through so far.

tompencil
3mo
Thanks for sharing these insights Nathan!
Mariya Lilith
6mo
Great insight.
Zach Pipher
6mo
I am a big fan of these follow up lessons that teaches me more about what has been spoken about, then adds more to the picture of things to focus on.
Joel Room
6mo
Skelly!
Johannes Schiehsl
6mo
Yeah poor Skelly, getting ghosted.
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