They may communicate the light source in the scene. The role of a line is to convey the character and mood and in some cases – help the viewer differentiate the foreground from the background. Again, they are both lines, but they play different roles. I see a contour line as a solo singer and a hatch – as a member of a chorus. Let’s expand the musical theme and make some comparisons. Both are lines after all but each serve a different purpose. On the surface, there isn’t a significant difference between a regular line used as contour and a hatch. Click on the button below to download the PDF worksheet…Ĭlick here to get your worksheet Distinguishing Regular Lines From Hatching I’ve put together a special worksheet that includes a few templates to help you with the line drawing exercises that we’ll be covering below. The paper can be any you like – ordinary printer paper is great because it’s so affordable and you can use as many sheets as you like. (I used ink liners just because they are my favorites they provide clear, contrasting, and controlled marks on the paper.) It may be a graphite pencil, an ink liner, a nib pen, or any other mark-making tool. We can use these exercises in the same – warming up the technical side of our artistic brains. Vocalists do various warm-ups before the ‘actual’ performance. The results of a five or ten minute warm-up, before even touching the big project you’re working on, may be surprising. They provide a chance to focus your mind on a simple concrete action, which makes it easy to enter a state of “flow” (or a meditative submergence into the process). If you practice them regularly, your drawing skill will improve greatly.Įven if you are confident in your lines and hatching and pleased with the results, these exercises are still a fun exercise to practice. We can think of these exercises in the same way. Musicians regularly practice their scales. This article is dedicated to short, yet effective drawing exercises that you can perform in just a few minutes every day. Practice plays an important role in developing ourselves as artists and should be a regular part of our activities – no matter what our current skill level. With any skill, we have to practice and build up our abilities. However, there are a few things that are important enough no matter how simple or complicated the subject is. That’s why so many beginners unfortunately quit drawing only after a dozen or so unsuccessful attempts to capture a subject they like, but are too complex for their level. We simply cannot expect to communicate our ideas through a drawing without basic technical skills in place. Don’t you agree?īut before it becomes possible to create mind-blowing artworks, we have to spend some time with the basics. We want to combine technical skills with creativity, communicating our unique vision and imagination – even if it’s just a five-minute sketch. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that every artist wants to create amazing drawings and paintings.
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