I hadn't done these in a long while so I have to admit I was surprised how instinctive it still felt. What I did forget was that fountain pen nibs eat at the paper when you're going over a line that many times that fast. Oops. I just don't like how dry microns/technical pens feel compared to wet ink so I avoid them....I think you can see where I realized though and started to hesitate so I'll have to work on that. Anyway, I generally struggle with proportions so hearing Peter talk about how training spacing with these exercises can help, really resonated with me. I'll definitely continue to keep that in mind going forward. Also did the angles with the rulers thing on this page. This blew my mind for some reason and made me feel like I was robbed in HS geometry because I don't remember ever being taught how to use triangle rulers in this way.

This was a nice one. Tried to be disciplined and not rotate the page. I've done these exercises for little over a year at drawabox and got proficient but... I always needed to rotate the page, which is fine when I'm playing with dip pens and brushes, the problem is that I never rotate the page when I draw so I need to try to build the habit of drawing straight verticals and horizontals without spinning the page like a DJ. To my fellow older manual laborers with arthritis and hand injuries I would recommend picking up some foam grips at the dollar store they help me a good bit. Just coat the inside foam tube with a q-tip amount of vaseline and they'll slide right on. I did mark and cut the lid to the micron with a pair of scissors so I can get the grip closer to the nib.

I tried this for the first time. Definitely going to add this as a warmup. The longer lines were difficult and the curved lines were so much more difficult ;-;

I've been practicing this traditionally using a micron 08 pen, but decided to test this out in Clip Studio. I'm noticing there's a certain level of shakiness regardless of medium I use. Good exercise regardless though.

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!