Mushroom Warmups

Lesson by

Stan Prokopenko

inDrawing Basics

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Mushroom Warmups

Lesson by Stan Prokopenko in Drawing Basics

3.4K

Assignments 348

Lesson Notes

Downloads 5

Take your turn at some Mario mushrooms! You don’t want to practice the exact same mushroom each time. So make sure to vary your ellipses to get the most out of this warmup.

Keep in mind these two key factors while you practice your mushrooms.

Pressure - Keep your pencil pressure hard in the areas where you want the lines to show up darker and soft where you want them to show up lighter.
Placement - Make sure to align your ellipses in the correct spots.

This is a warm-up, it’s not meant to look perfect. Don’t waste time going back over your lines to make them look pretty.

Practice this exercise until you feel like you have a solid grasp of the concept. It could be one page or it could be one page every day. It will be different for each of you, and that’s okay.

Don't forget to share your warm-ups in the community with your fellow classmates!

Daniel

A good warm-up exercise.

Pawel

11d

That's fun ;)

Eric Navarrette

14d

Here are my mushrooms. This was a fun exercise. I’ve never been good at, or often tried, to ghost in ellipses. Trying to use my arm and shoulder more with creating lines, as well. This is a good one to get everything moving!

Eric Navarrette

14d

1st page was the first night I watched the video; 2nd page is coming back to it the following day.

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shortayjorday

21d

I like this warm-up a lot. So simple (and adorable), yet makes it obvious where you need work on the intended skillset

caehls

22d

Mushroom Warmups

Laurie

23d

still trailing behind, but here are my mushrooms. :)

Browny Sparks

27d

got more out of this than i expected. great warmup! :)

Jason Stroud

30d

jkovalchek

1mo

That was fun and remarkably difficult

Dan Casagrande

1mo

Just got back form my trip so moving away from the tablet and trying pencil and paper for the first time. It was fun to try different pencils as well and how they feel to the paper. This was definitely a lot of fun to do! Will keep doing it as a warm up exercise :-) (P.s.: The production quality of the videos, even in a "simple" one like this is outstanding! Great job @Stan Prokopenko and thanks so much for these).

Bence

1mo

Warm-up exercises for the past few days

Nicholas Allott

1mo

Jan Henley

1mo

This was sooo difficult

Pali Espinosa

1mo

polinaagame

1mo

tried to make some fun with it:)

29d

👏

Dan Casagrande

1mo

Awwww that's so adorable! Congrats! :-)

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yecai

1mo

That's so cute!

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onigi *pronunce [on-ie-gee]*

1mo

Doing the mushroom warmups for 2 weeks, now I feel my right hand doesn't shake much even when I keep it hovering over the paper, but my eyes still don't know what correct(perfect) ellipses are. My previous assignment for this warmups: https://www.proko.com/s/4wmu Eyes Training App(https://eyes.training/) by Kyler Griggs always helps me find mistakes in my ellipses.

The guy from BluishDot

1mo

Turned out to be more challenging and way messier than I expected. I’ll definitely start doing this exercise every day until I feel more comfortable with it.