What are the most difficult and or useful exercises you can think of that improve any area of drawing?
Iterative Drawing. Look up sycra's tutorial on it. There will be haters of this technique but it works.
drawing pages and pages of anatomy sketches while devoting no more than 30 seconds on each piece.
keep doing it until you get those gestures burned deep into your muscle memory.
>>2530461
>useful exercises
Studying shots of your favourite films and tv shows, it's a very quick way to pick a basic understanding of cinematic and dramatic composition.
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relevent
>>2530466
do you mean drawing from life and creating your own sketches, or do you mean copying those pages filled with random body parts from Bridgmans books?
>>2530469
Especially study Akira Kurosawa, Hitchcock and other great classic directors and films. Kurosawa was a master of composition:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doaQC-S8de8
>>2530461
Try drawing still life without looking at the pen/paper. Start with just outside contours and draw slowly, always following the exact point where the eyes are looking at with the pen. Start drawing faster and inside contours aswell as you start to see any progress, still without looking at the paper, no cheating! And voilá, you now have an excellent line quality and can focus real good.
now this is pretty useless if you only draw digital because you can undo every chicken scratch easily, but it helped me a great deal ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>>2530481
>Start drawing faster and inside contours aswell as you start to see any progress
How do you see your progress if you don't look at the paper?
>>2530481
traditional masterrace death to tablets.
>>2530482
you are supposed to do more than one drawing you dingus
>>2530481
Is this "Actually" really usefull, I was under the impression that this exercise, (keys to drawing) was more of a warm up, like gesture... too get newbies to draw lines better. what benefits does it reap exactly?
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>COARPNC
>>2530493
feel free to dump material anywhere senpai, I love finding new stuff.
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>>2530490
You train your eye, can break down shapes and project 3D onto 2D. Drawing still life or those sculptured heads are common exercises in ateliers and in painting classes. They really help for you eye.
>>2530502
Woah that looks edgy as fuck, what movie? Is it good?
>>2530492
>COARPNC
Pig disgusting.
>>2530553
This is "El Topo" by Alejandro Jodorowsky. It's one of the classics of cinema and well, pretty crazy film but also very good. Very symbollic.
Warning though:
>Jodorowsky
>>2530464
Thank you so much anon, this is just the thing I needed
>>2530464
Why does it work though?
>>2530461
For pure technical still? Primatives, Boxes and spheres from observation and imagination forever.
