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40 Days of Art: Exercise is Boring
Mar. 18th, 2011 09:36 pmWhoops! I thought I'd posted this but it turns out I'd only draughted it in my head. It's been one of those weeks.
I keep saying 'this is a short one' but this really is a short one.
DRAUGHTSMANSHIP EXERCISE!
Draw a vertical line, as straight as you can, down your page – try to make it at least as long as your pinky finger. Now draw another one as close as possible to your first line without touching it, continuing down in parallel, ending at the same place. Repeat, until you have a square of vertical lines.
Now do the same with horizontal lines.
Now do the same with vertical and horizontal, but moving your pencil in the opposite direction as you did before.
Between reps you can spice it up with a whole bunch of circles! Hundreds of circles! As circular as you can!
This is a very boring exercise, I know. But I have found it helps with fine motor control, which leads to more precise linework. It's a bit too mind-numbing to devote one's whole attention to it, but you can do it while on the phone or watching TV, or when you're too burnt out to draw anything more creative but need to keep your pencil moving.
I keep saying 'this is a short one' but this really is a short one.
DRAUGHTSMANSHIP EXERCISE!
Draw a vertical line, as straight as you can, down your page – try to make it at least as long as your pinky finger. Now draw another one as close as possible to your first line without touching it, continuing down in parallel, ending at the same place. Repeat, until you have a square of vertical lines.
Now do the same with horizontal lines.
Now do the same with vertical and horizontal, but moving your pencil in the opposite direction as you did before.
Between reps you can spice it up with a whole bunch of circles! Hundreds of circles! As circular as you can!
This is a very boring exercise, I know. But I have found it helps with fine motor control, which leads to more precise linework. It's a bit too mind-numbing to devote one's whole attention to it, but you can do it while on the phone or watching TV, or when you're too burnt out to draw anything more creative but need to keep your pencil moving.
