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Drawing exercises for beginners
Most exercise lists tell you what to practise and leave you to judge the result yourself — the one thing a beginner cannot do. These are the same fundamentals, except you do them here and the result gets measured. Two of them go further and build the form with you a mark at a time before asking you to draw one alone. A mouse or a finger works and the measurement is the same — but that teaches you the theory. For the hand itself, we recommend a tablet with a pen. Here is exactly how.
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How to draw a circle freehand
Draw one circle. Get a number, and the reason behind it.
How to draw straight lines freehand
Connect two dots. Find out whether your line curves or shakes — they are not the same problem.
How to draw ellipses
Draw one ellipse inside the box. Find out whether its degree, its angle or its evenness is what let it down.
Fix your proportions
Mark the middle of six bars. Find out whether your eye has a habit, and which direction it runs in.
Draw the other half
Half a vase is on screen. Draw the missing half, and your side gets folded across the centre line onto the given one — so you see the gap rather than being told about it, at every height from the rim to the foot.
How to draw a box in perspective
A trainer for drawing a box in perspective, not an article about one.
Guided build5-stage course
How to draw a cylinder in perspective
A trainer for drawing cylinders, not an article about them.
Guided build4-stage course
Being built
Each drill needs its own measurement and its own set of named faults, so they arrive one at a time rather than all at once.
- Parallel hatchingmeasures spacing consistency and whether your strokes converge.
- Head proportionsmeasures the nose and mouth against the eye line you just placed.
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