![]() Fill an area with different size bean shapes without lifting your pencil off the paper. I don’t do beans too much anymore, but I know a lot of people like it so I’m mentioning it here. Just fill a page full of spidermans doing all sorts of acrobatics. I draw multiples of each, rotating the forms around, and I’ll often take the time to do some rough shading on at least a few of themį) spidermans! This one is really good if you’re going to be storyboarding or working on dynamic poses. These help get your brain into a more volumetric space. His how to draw and how to render books are very technical but also accessible and worth checking out)Į) cubes, spheres, cones, and cylinders. (I don’t always remember where I picked up my warm up exercises, but I’m pretty sure I got this one from Scott Robertson. Take time to ghost over the line you plan to draw before actually committing to your line. This sounds a lot simpler than it is in practice. The second is to draw three dots and draw the curve that connects them. The first is to draw two dots and then draw a straight line between them. This is a precision and accuracy exercise and takes two forms. For this exercise, I recommend holding the drawing tool perpendicular with the surfaceĭ) connect the dots. These are often more from the elbow than the shoulder, especially if I’m working on a smaller surface. Not me!Ĭ) lines! straight lines! in parallel! i do a mix of vertical, horizontal, and diagonal. Some people really care about getting perfect spirals but for me it’s all about making sure i’m comfortable with how i’m moving so who really even cares about how the spirals look. I start from the center and work outward, going both clockwise and counterclockwise until i feel comfortable with the whole range of motion. I usually start with big circles and then go to smaller circles and lines of ellipses, and then try to fit circles and ellipses inside other shapes i’ve already drawn as a precision exercise, but i don’t do that unless i’m feeling looseī) spirals! i don’t always do spirals, but if i’m stiff and the circles just aren’t cutting it, spirals are a good fall back. Either way, the fingers should really be ghosting over the surface, providing guidance rather than support. In order to ensure that you’re drawing from your shoulder, when you’re holding your pencil or whatever drawing tool you’re using, the only part of your hand that should be touching the drawing surface is part of the last two fingers–some people prefer the finger tips, but I tend to favor the first knuckles. In fact, you want to be drawing from your shoulder rather than your wrist most of the time! forever! your wrist is delicate please preserve it! For these circles you should make sure that you’re drawing from your shoulder and not your wrist. Just a whole page of circles on whatever drawing surface you’re going to be using, whether that’s your tablet or your sketchbook or a drawing pad on an easel. That being said, some good standbys:Ī) circles. It’s tempting but always a trick your brain is playing on you! Do not trust!Ģ) warmups will vary based on what feels good to you/what task you’re about to do/what motor skills you want to practice. So: a quick primer for those of you who are like ‘ok but how do i actually go about doing this warmup thing.’ġ) you may be tempted to do ‘a warmup drawing’ which is just a drawing that will take longer than it needed to and probably be frustrating and kind of bad because you didn’t warm up first. And, y’know, we were young so it didn’t matter so much.īeing older now and having an art job it’s…kind of essential. When i was in undergrad, it was kind of mentioned in and offhand way that we should do warmups, but we were never shown what that meant. What’s up I have an actual college degree in art and I was never ONCE taught to do warm ups. Someone: oh yeah, do this exercise during your warm ups! it’ll help Being a self-taught artist with no formal training is having done art seriously since you were a young teenagerĪnd only finding out that you’re supposed to do warm up sketches every time you’re about to work on serious art when you’re fuckin twenty-five ![]()
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