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!

Aaron Smith

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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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21d

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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23d

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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1mo

Iman

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1mo

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.

Ben Nunn

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2mo

I had to do this digitally due to travelling so the temptation to zoom in or out was tricky to resist but I did!

@sweethouse

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2mo

Marshall was right, I do suck!

Mario Ulloa

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2mo

Another warm up exercise add to the daily routine

Ssnowman

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2mo

Nikki De Backer

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3mo

This was a lot more difficult than I expected! I want to make a habit doing these but I find them extremely boring. Hope to get around that! 😂

@jazzw

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3mo

I only did a page for this time. I gave myself plenty of things to do, and trying this just once isn't nearly enough. I'll do it again! Since I haven't a compass, I'll use a stencil that I have; I did print off circles first. :P Oh yeah! I started from the bottom right, since I'm left-handed. Much easier to deal with!

Moka

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3mo

I was new to this and did these on a (mostly) daily basis since March 6. I really wanted to take the time to practice hand skills and study the 0 to 360 degrees correspondences and angles. I feel the improvement is already visible in the last ones I did today so I'm happy I made this a daily training. The templates where also a great help because I don't own a compass currently. Thank you Marshall for making those available to download and in general for this great exercises. Will definitely continue them for a while :)

Melanie Scearce

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3mo

Great example of what consistency will accomplish. Nice work!

Christopher Knibbs

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3mo

Did it once, realized I did it wrong, so I did it again. That’s what I get for setting up my materials while watching the video instead of just watching… lesson learned. This is definitely getting added to warm ups along with line control.

Darren

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3mo

I drew one whit the set squares and compass as a example and freehanded form there. Great exercise adding it to my warm up.

J. Menriv

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4mo

Assignment - Know Your Tools Challenge Redrawing the same line 4, 3 and 2 times.

@starrb

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4mo

@geoneo

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4mo

Late, but still committed. Decided not to move the page and made a conscious effort whether to 'pull' or push the lines. 'Pulling' definitely felt more intuitive. Eye balling the angles was quite a challenge. After finishing a few circles I could feel that the muscles in my hand had a work out. Will use as a go to warm up exercise!!!

Miqdad (Mick Dad) Ali

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5mo

after drawing each line once, I continued over them going in the opposite direction too. I noticed I'm a lot more wobbly going from the right to the left.