Warmups to Improve Line Quality
Warmups to Improve Line Quality
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Warmups to Improve Line Quality

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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.

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Alex Watson
Ok, so my straight line definitely need some work…good to know
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@merlini
I find drawing a diagonal line from upper left to lower right is pretty hard. Perhaps because I'm right handed.
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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
Straight Taper, Trace the Ruler, Connect the Dots, and Mario Mushrooms. I promise to keep future warm-ups to myself.
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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
Light Medium Dark: HB on Newsprint
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Art Stark
Page Skating
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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.
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Eruera Hohaia-Turuwhenua
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
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@osa
2mo
Here are some of the practices I did. I now know that he meant a page for each one. 😅
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@osa
2mo
Here is more like what he said.
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@thesmokingrotoscope
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.
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Scott N
My first go at the warmups. Fun exercises and they highlight the areas to improve!
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Guillermo R
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
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Amit Munjal
lot of fun in drawing lines, attempted to draw in all directions, will be doing curves and ruler ones
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@nathan_the_phaneuf
Hi and Bonjour. This is my first try doing these exercices and man they are fun.
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Peter Bajzek
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Patricia French
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.
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@daniellee
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.
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@daniellee
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@drawingdodo
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
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.
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@gamma
Page skating was a new type of exercise that I haven't come across before, liked it!
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Noveze
Man that was tougher than I remember, the connect the dots was especially poor. Need to practice
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Paul
4mo
Sensing that the “dot” exercise is my biggest opportunity for a warmup going forward. More to come.
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Jerry
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