Warmup - Mushrooms

Lesson by

Stan Prokopenko

inDrawing Basics

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Warmup - Mushrooms

Lesson by

Stan Prokopenko

in Drawing Basics

6.3K

Assignments 422

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!

Mike Davidson

19h

itswaker

20h

Here are my mushrooms. For the first page I put the 8 ellipses in order. I mostly liked to draw the faces facing in different directions. Controlling which side of the ellipses is darker was difficult.

Siv Nilsen

Nice warmup. But I think my pencil was too flat, held it sideways, so I think the strokes are a bit too fat.

Matilda

12d

Here is my attempt for the mushroom warm-up. I tried to had line weight... Please feel free give feedback :D

He Li

13d

My first page of mushroom, it's fun, I'll keep doing it everyday before my actual exercise.

Matilda

13d

Looks good!! Nicely done with the different proportions of the mushrooms

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Oscar de Luna

17d

Oh Stan, seems like I ate some of these before drawing them, but Imma doing this daily I swear. Doing that line darker is highly challenging.

njdestefano

21d

First attempt…

Scott N

25d

Second day of warmups and slowly improving. Thought I'd try some different characters as well.

patricoda

28d

Day 2 attempt at doodling mushrooms! Going to keep working at it.

doronl

1mo

Ama B

1mo

This was a fun warm-up exercise! I still have to remind myself to darken the spots that will show up on my drawings. Will make the effort to do this every day to improve my ellipses.

drowningoranges

1mo

Here’s my attempt at the warmup. I kept squeezing the pencil too tight to vary the pressure which caused my hand to cramp however I think I got the hang of it near the end. It seems that I couldn’t get the eyes the right size though. I pulled through to fill the page and didn’t quit so that’s good. I might try this again not sure now.

Rolf

1mo

I like this kind of warm-up! Much more fun than just drawing random ellipses.

jasta

1mo

This exercise was actually pretty relaxing! Did just a page, but I think I'll try and make it a habit.

tiania

2mo

Harder than expected. I found it especially challenging to vary the pressure of my pencil. Enjoyed the exercise very much and will do it again (probably a lot!)

andivagyoken

2mo

This was fun! Still a long way to go, but I could already notice the improvement between my first and last mushroom on the page. I'll make this one a part of my drawing warmup routine :)