Warmups to Improve Line Quality

Lesson by

Stan Prokopenko

inDrawing Basics

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Warmups to Improve Line Quality

Lesson by

Stan Prokopenko

in Drawing Basics

3.5K

Assignments 107

Lesson Notes

Downloads 5

Fill at least one page for each of these warmups.

Page Skating
Light, Medium, Dark Lines
Straight Taper
Trace the Ruler
Connect the Dots

Remember the key is consistency, these are not meant to be done just once. Don’t be afraid to fill up a lot of paper. As you go through this course, do a page of warm-ups before you start drawing.

Scott N

My first go at the warmups. Fun exercises and they highlight the areas to improve!

Guillermo R

13d

Fun warmups but I felt eager to finish them so I could start drawing, so some of the lines were rushed. I’ll have to keep working on that

Amit Munjal

1mo

lot of fun in drawing lines, attempted to draw in all directions, will be doing curves and ruler ones

nathan_the_phaneuf

1mo

Hi and Bonjour. This is my first try doing these exercices and man they are fun.

Peter Bajzek

1mo

Patricia French

1mo

The last one I did while watching the video. I don’t seem to have an option without critique. So feel free to not I suppose.

daniellee

1mo

Great exercises. I did not expect page skating to be so fun! When the page skating is done you have cool organic forms to play with.

daniellee

1mo

drawingdodo

1mo

Just thought I mentioned something! I'm not sure if this is something I'm imagining, but I have a feeling like your lines could still be even more confident, and I think that speed might be a factor. Perhaps you're trying the lines too slow, or the page might be too small for the broadest strokes? Hope this helps, and I'm glad you're having fun, page skating is a really cool exercise!

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daniellee

1mo

Page skating is super fun! Once the shapes are there it’s hard not to see an organic form and not to throw some cross contours on it.

gamma

2mo

Page skating was a new type of exercise that I haven't come across before, liked it!

Noveze

2mo

Man that was tougher than I remember, the connect the dots was especially poor. Need to practice

Paul

2mo

Sensing that the “dot” exercise is my biggest opportunity for a warmup going forward. More to come.

Jerry

2mo

VAGABOND

2mo

Still practicing these LINES

Julian Blake

2mo

Hello, everyone! These are my warm ups so far. The page is huge, so I have many days on the same page. I do 5 minutes each, when I have the time. When I don't I try to do at least 3 for 5 minutes.