One useful exercise that can ease your mind and improve your shape design is automatic drawing. The idea is to put pen to paper and just enjoy the process of subconscious mark making. Professional artist Tim Gula shows you how to apply meditation to art with an exercise called automatic drawing and explains the benefits of including it in your routine.

Other Tim Gula videos
Part 1 – Gesture Quicksketch with Live Model
Part 2 - How to Use YOUR Pencil for Dynamic Life Drawing
Part 3 – Learning Gesture with Tim Gula

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Check out the rest of 2018's 12 Days of Quicksketch:

Day 1 - Kim Jung Gi
Day 2 - Getting Better Faster
Day 3 - Sketching with Ink from Imagination
Day 4 - Quickly Draw Heads - Loomis Part 1
Day 5 - Draw ANY Head Type - Loomis Part 2
Day 6 - Intuitive Portraits - Loomis Part 3
Day 7 - Meditation for Artists
Day 8 - Improve Your Sketching Speed
Day 9 - Painting Challenge
Day 10 - The FORCE Method
Day 11 - Draw Using Reilly Rhythms
Day 12 - Speed Sculpting