Exercises to Increase your drawing skills, analysis and efficiency
Heya! Have you ever thought to warm up before drawing with seriousness? Or thinking about doing some good bunch of exercises to increase your drawing and analytical skills and efficiency to approach your reference images and drawings? Below are some activities. Some help loosen up the hand, some sharpen the memory while others are to do with discipline and drawing regularly. Almost all put an emphasis on looking. * Do a drawing from observation with your non-writing hand. As you have less control over this hand you will be less able to draw what you think you should and more likely to draw what you actually do see. Some believe this is because you are using a different side of your brain than you usually do when drawing with your writing hand. * For a similar lack of control, put your drawing implement (charcoal, pastel, chalk) on the end of a long stick or a heavy object. The result will not be a neat, life-like drawing but it will have qualities a controlled drawing lacks...