Warmups to Improve Line Quality

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Warmups to Improve Line Quality

Lesson by

Stan Prokopenko

in Drawing Basics

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Course In Progress

Assignments 231Lesson NotesDownloads 5

Fill at least one page for each of these warmups.

Page Skating
Light, Medium, Dark Lines
Straight Taper
Trace the Ruler
Connect the Dots

Remember the key is consistency, these are not meant to be done just once. Don’t be afraid to fill up a lot of paper. As you go through this course, do a page of warm-ups before you start drawing.

Chance Hilton

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Good Warmups. Recovering from a cold. Little muscle and mental fatigue made it a little hard but nice to get something done. Critique is welcome.

@smileylemon

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My first attempts of the warmups, I try correcting digitally the contrast so it's easier for you to check my work but for the "Light, Medium, Dark Lines" I couldn't do much

Alison Shelton

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20d

These improved my confidence

Rachel Dawn Owens

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20d

That’s great to hear!

Sebastian V.

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23d

Fun warmups! Kind of similar to some of the “draw a box” warmups but I liked the addition of pressure control and tapering focus. Using procreate so still adjusting some of the brush settings to fit but overall a good set of warmups :)

@silver847

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1mo

I had fun doing this and I will come back to them as warmups.

@jtrigoli

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1mo

just some fun CSI projects incorporating some of the exercises!

Rachel Dawn Owens

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1mo

These are really cool to look at. And it looks like you had fun making them.

@treekin

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1mo

Carlos Javier Roo Soto

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2mo

Here're my first attempts to the warm-ups. What can you see I miss? Which one you think I need to work the most? I think the skating line, the hatching lines and the connect the dots, do you agreed?

Jim U

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30d

I like that you add notes to your assignments, like "remember—comfortable speed" in the first drawing. I think writing helps reinforce new habits, and serves as a great reminder for other students as well. Thank you!

Leonardo Socorro

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2mo

it was a bit difficult deciding which sketching pencil to use since I’m doing this digitally, I’m still trying to figure my pressure curve for procreate. If anyone has any tips let me know

Michael Yoila

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2mo

I don't know what most of those warmups are cos I'm not a premium student so I couldn't watch the video. Anyways I ended up only doing connect the dots and light medium dark lines

Tony Reza

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2mo

I got the chance to try the warm up and I’ll say this, I did really enjoyed it and it did helped me a lot of my sloppiness for my art projects to practice on

Mal

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3mo

Various warmups

Alonya M.

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3mo

did these warmups with 2B and 3B pencils. Great exercises, The more I do these warmups I gain confidence in tapering my lines. Going to do some more now.

@andresarte2025

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3mo

I found these warmups really funny, my favorite one was page skating.

Isabel Tang

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3mo

I find it’s a little bit hard to use just the tip of the pencil to draw light lines while I am holding my pencil higher. I always end up using the side of the pencil, and my lines start to get thicker and the texture of the paper stands out more. I’m wondering if there’s any way that I can improve my light line quality.