Developing Hand Skills

If you want to develop your hand skills to meet your brain skills, here's a challenge (do this without rotating your sketchbook):

Drawing Circles and Bisecting Lines

• Draw a circle with a compass.
• Bisect it through the center with a horizontal line, then a vertical line.

Know this, it's not easy. If you do it badly a few hundred times but tolerate that because you want to rely less on tools, or even for personal reasons like proving your pluck, you'll gradually gain control of your lines and move beyond theory to practice.

• Now, try bisecting a quadrant by drawing a 45-degree angle. Pull it all the way through and then do the same for its neighboring quadrant.
• Estimate thirds all around and continue pulling lines all the way through.

Practice Makes Perfect

I warn you: if you are new to this, you will suck at it, like I do at jokes. But if you keep trying, not settling for theory that tingles your brain but leaves your lines limp, and practice this five to ten minutes a day through this course hundreds of times, even on templates (like the one in the downloads tab), your hand skills can rise to your brain skills.

Deadline - submit by Dec 04, 2024 for a chance to be in the critique video!