Line practice and an attempt at projecting isometric shadows

Nice with the framing with approach, mindset and reason for the excercise. Now then to get this into daily habit. Neither overdoing nor skipping it but just doing it in a moderate sense and with some variations and see what happens over time :). Not after perfect designer lines, rather beeing more comfortable all over without spinning the page. Also doing it going back and forth, backtracking same line in both directions, to free upp the ability. This also for it to carry over into painting, when it's cumbersome/not doable rotating the canvas

A little bit of both assignments. But I don’t know if it’s an optical illusion, more graphic probably.

On paper with cheap chotune micro pigment pen 03! Very fun exercise, will implement it to my daily warm up, very excited to see how this improves my line quality over time

Digital + traditional w/ micron I feel like the physical paper gave me more stabilization than my actual stabilizer setting! Maybe i should bump it up a touch.

I learned this as well from Drawabox (which im currently doing as well, on lesson 5 now) I really love playing with lines. In Drawabox its a lot more construted than this demo. Funny because the creator of Drawabox is a student of Peter Han. Maybe it was for simplification purposes. Who knows? :)

As others have already said, I remember doing a similar assignment on Drawabox and this gave me a good reminder to keep on doing these exercises as warm-ups. I'll be honest, I didn't really ghost a lot of these lines. It feels like if I ghost the line too much, I'll start over-thinking it and freak myself out then fray the line. Or maybe I'm just rusty, who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.(The arrows are the directions I drew the line from)

Locking it, not talking it.

Thanks for the interesting guest. I struggled with drawing straight lines for a long time. I thought I was drawing the ‘professional’ way by using my forearm instead of my wrist, but I didn’t realize the importance of using my whole arm, especially the shoulder. Even though using my forearm made my lines more continuous than just using my wrist, they still tended to curve. Understanding that I need to engage my whole arm has been a game changer.

Gave this warm up a try in "Krita".

Nice lesson! Been doing Stan’s Trace the Ruler and DrawaBox’s similar warmups including connect the dots for a year now but I’ll incorporate the equal spacing / parallel lines into them. I’ve found the need for equal spacing in lines when constructing objects but never thought of practicing them as a warm up. 😅

Should I be teaching myself to draw lines with my whole arm or with my elbow pressed like I usually do?

When doing these line exercises, I found myself in situations where I could not keep my pinky in contact with the paper due to getting close to the right edge of the page (I am a righty and really enjoy the feeling of keeping my pinky on contact with the paper). Is it ever appropriate to rotate your canvas so you can keep contact with the page? Of course, these are just lines with no consequence other than improving muscle memory, but that made me question if I should rotate my sketchbook at all, or if I am creating a bad habit. I know there are truly no hard and fast rules, but wanted an/some opinion(s)!

Now that is the great way of warming up. I have seen videos from different artists that they guided me to be more confident and this method works. At some point I could make the perfect circle with only one stroke, and I would use all my body to do it, that exercise actually had a benefit for body and it was kind of a workout. each of these circles and curves are made with only one stroke with preforming special rotation.

Am I missing something? Why doesn't Peter have his own course? This is gold.

This is great and reminds me of the lessons Peter teaches in his 'Dynamic Bible'. One of the best gifts I ever have received was that book. Thanks Mom!

I drew a line.

@marshall I have a question. Why is the straight line the most important line? I'm quite confident with the straight line, but the problem for me is that , especially with gesture, i do way more curved lines or ellipses . And sadly I feel less competent in that region XD. Although I was happy to see Peter doing also curved lines. Loved the video, keep up the great work !

"this is more about walking it, not talking about it" hit me like a truck!

I've seen this being implemented in draw-box,dynamic sketching,industrial drawings and some other courses out there and have to say my line quality,pen and arm control has improved tremendously after doing this for a year or so and doing these simple warm-ups for like 10min a day like Peter mentioned really does help!.Even using a fineliner instead of pencil from time to time really promotes the mindset of "think before you make a mark" and getting over the fear of doing bad drawings! So I would definitely recommend this to everyone!