Warmups to Improve Line Quality

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Stan Prokopenko

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Warmups to Improve Line Quality

Lesson by

Stan Prokopenko

in Drawing Basics

4.3K

Assignments 125

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.

Alex Watson

Ok, so my straight line definitely need some work…good to know

@merlini

I find drawing a diagonal line from upper left to lower right is pretty hard. Perhaps because I'm right handed.

Alex Watson

Was thinking the same thing. always tempted to rotate the paper, but probably not a good habit

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Art Stark

15d

Straight Taper, Trace the Ruler, Connect the Dots, and Mario Mushrooms. I promise to keep future warm-ups to myself.

Yury

15d

What pencil have you used for black lines? Even Graphite 10B looks really weak on my newsprint (which is kind of too gray I guess).

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Art Stark

18d

Light Medium Dark: HB on Newsprint

Art Stark

18d

Page Skating

Yury

18d

Hehe, I got myself a stack of newsprint too, for these kind of stuff. Also I started trying out some charcoal on a3 of newsprint planted on the board. Some fun.

Eruera Hohaia-Turuwhenua

2mo

These drawings were done for this assignment but just saying that these are usually my warm up before any drawing or if I'm feeling anxious or tight on my grip. Good to get back into basics

@osa

2mo

Here are some of the practices I did. I now know that he meant a page for each one. 😅

@osa

2mo

Here is more like what he said.

@thesmokingrotoscope

2mo

Both the Trace the Ruler and Pressure Control exercises ended up being more challenging than I thought they'd be. Definitely going to need to run both of those more often when warming up.

Scott N

2mo

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

Guillermo R

3mo

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

3mo

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

@nathan_the_phaneuf

3mo

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

Peter Bajzek

3mo

Patricia French

3mo

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

4mo

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

4mo

@drawingdodo

4mo

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

4mo

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

4mo

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

Noveze

4mo

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

Paul

4mo

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

Jerry

4mo

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Stan Prokopenko

Founder of Proko, artist and teacher of drawing, painting, and anatomy. I try to make my lessons fun and ultra packed with information.