Know this, it's not easy. If you do it badly a few hundred times but tolerate that because you want to rely less on tools, or even for personal reasons like proving your pluck, you'll gradually gain control of your lines and move beyond theory to practice.

Now, try bisecting a quadrant by drawing a 45-degree angle. Pull it all the way through and then do the same for its neighboring quadrant.
Estimate thirds all around and continue pulling lines all the way through.

Practice Makes Perfect

I warn you: if you are new to this, you will suck at it, like I do at jokes. But if you keep trying, not settling for theory that tingles your brain but leaves your lines limp, and practice this five to ten minutes a day through this course hundreds of times, even on templates (like the one in the downloads tab), your hand skills can rise to your brain skills.

Deadline - submit by Dec 04, 2024 for a chance to be in the critique video!

Gloria Wickman

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Did some practice and found that my estimating for the 30 degree line is consistently too acute. I used a protractor to measure each angle after free handing and wrote the numbers so that I could see where I was going off. I'm happy to be back working on this course now that I've caught up with drawing basics.

Daniele Olevano

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22d

Jonathan Fisk

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1mo

This was definitely a nice and simple way to systematically test and drill my line control going in different directions; for the most part, I went over my lines in each direction 10+ times for the sake of building muscle memory, although there were a couple times that I managed to get what I consider a pretty quality line on the first try, which I left alone. I've also included a page of exercises from Peter Han, which I really enjoyed doing, especially to work on maintaining confident lines while also trying to keep consistent spacing between my lines.

@cisco724

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2mo

Good practice for drawing straight lines and learning degrees of a circle.

Debbie Dawson

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2mo

I have done quite a bit with geometry but expected to be totally off. 1st one was on some but the second was closer.

Chloe Kmita

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3mo

Definitely not my strong suit, but I'm keeping at it. Here's just a few pages of the many many I've been making.

Ronald Moss Jr

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3mo

@lillifae

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3mo

This was strangely relaxing to do after I figured out how to get the compass to work. Think I'll add this alongside the line work as a daily warmup for a while. Before eventually adding it to a warm up roulette

Louise

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3mo

I’m late starting the course but will still upload my attempts, so that I have a record of my progress along the way. I’m finding it very interesting.

@lillifae

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3mo

I am as well! Is nice to see that being late to the party doesn't mean alone to the party

Laura

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4mo

I tried to do these without rotating the paper. I struggled with horizontal lines, while vertical lines were somehow easier.

Aaron Smith

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4mo

These are my warmups from the last few days of doing these as well as the recommended exercises from Peter Han. The first one I did today while the rest were on other days.

@chickenbutter79

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5mo

Hello, I'm catching up on the assignments. I'm going to keep doing to develop the muscle memory and make confident and effective lines 😊

Stephen Wilson

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5mo

Peter Han's exercises certainly helped with this one. I still find that certain angles like 60, 75, and 120 degrees are pretty uncomfortable on a display tablet, but they were a lot easier after trying Peter's practice techniques.

Tori Tempo

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5mo

Iman

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5mo

I used a compass (for the first time) to draw the circles and then used a rapidograph for the 45° and 90° lines. I also went over them a few times. For some of the lines I started from the upper half and drew down to the lower half, and for others I reversed it. After drawing the 45° lines I proceeded to divide the quarters into thirds, which, because the lines were done freehand, are not accurate thirds. But I still found it difficult to divide it into thirds. It’s something I hope to get better at; eyeballing measurements. I don’t know if I should’ve focused on just drawing straight lines from point to point or focused on accurately depicting 15° increments regardless if the lines were a bit wobbly. I think I found myself focused more on the former.