When you start a drawing session, you may wonder why your first sketches are clumsy. Your hand muscles are not yet that agile. It’s good to start with a bit of warm up. For that, draw anything with a loose hand.
Warm Up drawing with a loose hand – Wacom Cintiq 22HD with Sketchbook Pro
00:01 Start drawing with simple shapes
00:04 Keep your hand loose
00:12 Draw with a moderate precision
00:15 We’ll adjust later
00:21 Use some light reflexion to the eyes
00:27 Add grey value using oblique hatching
00:31 Don’t follow the hair direction
00:42 Touch up to give more contrast
00:45 Using the bold pressure of the pen
Below is a quick tutorial on how I draw step-by-step.
I start with a vertical axis
A simple circle for the head
I add the Chin.
I like to continue with BOTH eyes. I don’t finish one eye to start an other. I purposely draw both together to make sure that both are aligned before adding more details in them.
Then the lips and the nose.
I readjust a bit the chin to make it more narrow.
I start to give the rough shape of the hair style like a “block”.
I draw the hair thinking of the weight. The hair start to curl below the chin.
Ok ! We got our main shape. Time to add some details and add values.
Time to ad some details to the eyes.
Think of adding a bit of light reflexion. It’s just a blank ellipse that partly hide the pupils.
A bit of touch up to give more contrast to the overall.
Voila, for the quick sketch of the day. I often start a drawing session drawing something that is not that accurate but beneificial for a good start.
If you havn’t draw for a while (few weeks for example), at the opposite you can plan to warm up with “precision exercises”. Instead of drawing with a loose hand, trace straight lines, ellipses and circles. You will help your brain to recalibrate with your pen.
[…] As a beginner, your focus should be on mastering basic shapes first like straight lines and circles. These shapes serve as the foundation for developing your sketching abilities and calibrating your brain’s connection with your hand. […]
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