![]() It helps me keep my whole arm in motion, so I don’t rely on my wrist to draw.Īs with drawing straight lines, you tend to get a better effect when you keep your wrist locked and draw with the entire arm from the shoulder as opposed to from the wrist.įor some reason, I feel more comfortable drawing ellipses from left to right than from the opposite direction. When I’m making these circles, I kind of ‘rev’ my arm in a circular motion - as if I’m a helicopter propeller preparing for landing. This one’s kind of a 2-in-1 digital art exercise because an ellipse is basically just a circle on a different plane, if you think about it…which you should! The ability to pivot objects in space in your mind’s eye will help when we eventually give these flat objects some volume. If you’re using a Wacom tablet or have one of those iPad screen protectors that offers some textured resistance, you might not experience this slip ‘n slide feeling as much.ĭrawing from the shoulder can produce smoother lines as opposed to drawing from the wrist. Note: During my digital art drawing exercises, I set my Photoshop Pencil Smoothing to 10% to compensate for the slippery iPad surface, and to mimic a toothy sketchbook page. Drawing from the shoulder will help you produce smoother lines because your arm movement range is much larger than that of just your wrist. Lock your wristĭuring this exercise, I’m trying to use my whole arm as opposed to just bending at the wrist, especially when drawing the longer parallel lines (I didn’t do as great a job of it when I was drawing the smaller ones). Practice getting your parallel lines as close as you can! And try making them fast, as opposed to dragging the pen slowly. I challenge you to draw parallel lines of varying lengths from different angles - it’s not as easy as it seems (and it’s really satisfying when you get it right). Okay, now I know that drawing lines probably seems like THE most boring drawing warm up exercise, but just hear me out. These shapes will become the building blocks to draw more complex objects later on during your digital art drawing exercises. ![]() These first few drawing warm-up exercises are all about developing control and muscle memory, so you can confidently master the basic shapes. Part 1: Take your drawing warm-ups back to the basics Luna Display dongle to extend Mac desktop onto iPad.Astropad Studio app to use touch gesture Photoshop shortcuts on my iPad.I’m here to help you out of that rut! We’ve got 12 digital art drawing exercises for your iPad to loosen up those fingers and warm up your imagination. Until finally, you slump down out of hopelessness. So you open Pinterest or Instagram, desperately scrolling for inspiration looking for warm-up sketches. Do you ever get your sketchbook out, or set up your whole workspace to draw, only to find yourself paralyzed by how to start? You sit there, staring at the blank canvas, twiddling your thumbs, racking your brain for ideas good enough to make the first mark.
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