Exact Lines & Muscle Memory | General Drawing Skills | Episode 1

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This video is useful, but also dangerous. I used to think, that in order to learn to draw (from imagination) one should start with the most basic thing - drawing lines, getting muscle memory. Now I think this is something you learn automatically on the way, sooner or later, but more importantly, I think learning it too early MAY EVEN HARM your process! Yes, that is right. Thinking in lines, and being able to draw confident lines can get in your way and block you, if the understanding of what you are drawing lacks behind. To me at drawing ideas of lines of legs came to my mind, because I have drawn many legs, but I lacked the spatial imagination and the feel of volume and understanding of the 3d shape of a leg. These confident leg-lines made me think I somehow can draw legs from imagination, and this hindered me for a long time to tackle what was really important, and to understand the fundamentals, and what was really going on. In order to draw from imagination.. just do it. Start simple, draw often completely without reference, draw from memory, get feedback, watch what you tried to draw afterwards and learn from your mistakes, draw from life, try to not see what you see, but to understand what you see, ask yourself, why does it look like it looks, observe and understand space, color etc, and always move on, being aware that it rather is a 2 steps forward, one step back process, and your progress is a sneaky thing that may be hard to notice in short terms. If you got started with that, maybe you could watch this video and greatly benefit from it. Having said this, here is the prior description, and enjoy watching and trying! :)

This video is about drawing Exact Lines at the first attempt and getting Muscle Memory. You will develop automatisms that enable you to catch any line directly and free thinking capacity for other things.

This topic sets the base for drawing lines and is required in most of the following tutorials.

Timeline:
0:00 Introduction, Dos and Don'ts
1:01 Do it quick/Window arches and first exercise
2:58 Second experience: Drawing hands
3:58 How I draw today/second exercise
4:47 Example redrawing a nose
5:18 General stuff and Muscle Memory
6:43 Other artists and the feeling of drawing lines that way
7:31 (Incomplete) summary and tip

ATTENTION: You don't need to become a factory that draws perfect window arches and you don't need to be able to draw good looking faces that quickly. I also just showed you my best attempts. These are just exercises and it's all about getting the FEELING OF FORCING YOUR PEN! Usually I draw much slower, especially at difficult subjects as faces. Once you perceived the feeling of forcing your pen you can move back to a drawing speed you feel more convenient with.

Examples of artists drawing that way:
Kim Jung Gi:    • Видео  
Karl Kopinski:    • Sketchbook sketching 1  

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