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Founder of Proko, artist and teacher of drawing, painting, and anatomy. I try to make my lessons fun and ultra packed with information.
LESSON NOTES
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.
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.
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.
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10d
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
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.
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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!
Got caught up and added in line warm ups. I'm not really the neatest when it comes this though
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")
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.
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
These are circles of my warmup! It was fun to draw a lot of circles, but the works are a little bit scary...
