Warmup - Circles
Warmup - Circles
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Warmup - Circles
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Maryse
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Let’s add another warmup exercise to the list… Circles!
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Give them all a try! Once you find a few you really like, add them to your daily warmup routine and practice them… a lot.

@alexnim
5d
I have already been practicing circles before but not sure sure if they are good enough though 🤔
@feawi
4d
you are doing great. When it comes to free handing it will never be "perfect" but that is the beauty of free hand drawing vs ai or using stencils. Now if you need a perfect circle by all means use a stencil. Any way one of the things that helps me is hovering my hand over the page and pantomiming the shape of a circle, not too fast not too slow, try to see your hand making the shape of a circle even try visualizing the circle and then when you are confident your hand is making the shape of a circle. keep the motion going but lower your pencil to the paper and keep the motion going, Remember, draw from the shoulder and elbow and understand when free hand drawing, no line is perfect, just work the multiple passes until it resembles a workable circle.
@princerobot
Circles into loomis method for chins
@princerobot
Trying to practice with shoulder and clockwise/counter-clockwise
Ronald Moss Jr
As I started the circle exercise with the HB pencil, I chose not to erase and just kept going. Basically trying to stay between the lines and keep them circular as I possibly could. Then I did the same thing with the blue pencil to try and do a little better than before.
@na_talie
2mo
I used a compass to draw some perfect circles of different sizes and try to come as close as possible when drawing over them with coloured pencils. When I feel confident enough, I try to draw my own circles. I also found, that my circles seem to look better on squared paper.
Patrick Bosworth
This is great practice, keep it up!! Try the Mario Mushroom exercise right before this and then again right after a page like this, you'll see improvement in no time! https://www.proko.com/course-lesson/warmup-mushrooms
Bubbles
3mo
Practicing circles in a fun way :)
Stephen Clark
Heck yeah! Love a bouncing ball animation practice! Well done 💪
Bubbles
3mo
I still did the other exercises too. Big circles is my next focus, because I can’t seem to do them correctly. The bigger they get, the worse my lines look.
thesleepypiggy
Targets
Keith Harrison
Warmup circles
Daniel Cabot
cool practice
@dbd1000
5mo
Nice addition to the warm up routine.
Lucky S
5mo
I noticed if u slow down u done lol
@treekin
5mo
Wow this was so hard for someone as impatient as me. I cannot tell you how many pages I filled and they always still looked pretty bad, pretty "scrawled," no matter how hard I tried to slow down. But I do like how this pattern turned out. I hope I can learn to slow down at some point enough to do this exercise well, but this is what i have for now.
Melanie Scearce
It’s okay if they’re not perfect circles! You want to put more emphasis on building the good habits than the outcome at this point. Using your whole arm instead of just your wrist is a big one here. This is a good low-risk exercise to help build that habit. That, ghosting your lines before you put them on the paper, and the follow through. Focusing on those things will naturally slow you down. The nice, symmetrical circles will follow!
Cíntia Bloom
Circles of the day. First I did with colored pencils, the went over it with ink.
Mal
7mo
Sample warmups
Michael Yoila
Got caught up and added in line warm ups. I'm not really the neatest when it comes this though
Agustin Gomez
an alucard based character after practicing circles and lines
@chrisdzy
7mo
this looks cool bro
Grey Souffle
Michael de Graaf
Sandra Süsser
Warmup circles
Dylan Jagiello
Merry Lee Sharin
General poll: Do you tend to make your circles clockwise? counter-clockwise? And are you right or left handed? I haven't discovered a strong disposition toward making clockwise circles (I usually start at the bottom) or counter-clockwise (then I usually start at the top). I'm generally stronger on my left, but write & draw with my right hand (I'm old enough that being left-handed wasn't "allowed")
Mel
1yr
I’m right handed when I write or draw and usually go counter clockwise starting at the top. But depending on the task I can switch between left and right pretty easily.
@androida
1yr
The following a previously drawn circle exercise is pretty hard - so is trying to draw it within a given shape. After 3 or 4 sheets of nothing but circles, I started adding them into and around perspective boxes. XD
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