The Basics

Drawing Drills

In the very early stages of your art journey, even basic exercises, like the ones you’ve found here, can offer up a bit of a challenge. But you don’t want to become overly concerned with mastering them because, like I’ve mentioned before, that will come with patience and practice. Over time they will become second nature and you won’t have to expend any energy to employ them.

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Drawing Drills Workbook
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Within this document you will find all 9 Drawing Drills and instructions on how to complete them. This workbook has been designed to be printed from home.

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Assignment

Over the next nine days, take an entire drawing session to practice ONE of the drills.

Part One: Review pages 3 - 5 and write out your notes, preferably somewhere that will be easy to access while doing these drills in the future. In these notes you should try to restate the points in your own words, as that gives you a better opportunity to test that you understood the materials. A good way to see if your notes are accurate is to either read them out loud to yourself or to a third party to see if what you wrote made sense.

Part Two: Select one of the nine exercises to focus your study time on (make sure you study all nine in the near future). Before you start write down in your own words what the benefit of the exercise is supposed to be and what you hope to accomplish during this study time. This goal can be as simple as "complete the exercise" or you can be more specific like "get better at drawing inwards".

Part Three: Do the exercise. Make sure that you take your time, and focus on completing it to the best of your ability. It is okay if this is hard or that you can't do it well yet. During this, look back at your notes from Part One and Two to reinforce the experience with the information you've learned.

Part Four: Once you are done, it's important that you reflect on what you were able to accomplish, being sure to write a positive statement here, not negative. Negative thinking is very easy to get lost in. Additionally, write down what you think you can do better next time. Be positive here as well, instead of saying "don't suck" you could write "I need to use my shoulder more."

Part Five: Over a relatively short time, you can start weaning down how much time you spend on any one of these exercises, turning them into warm up games before a drawing session. With time these will get a lot easier and will take less time to complete.

Part Six: Share your experiences with the community. Positive reinforcement is very motivational!