How to Draw Straighter Lines
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 27 мар 2023
- Here's a line quality exercise to practice 5-10 minutes before starting your real drawing for the day!
If you're worried about wasting paper, do it on less expensive printer paper or do it digitally. It really helps!
Learn more about my Drawing Basics Course:
www.proko.com/drawing
#drawing #howtodraw #shorts
“your lines curve to the right or the left”
my brain: SLIDE TO THE LEFT, SLIDE TO THE RIGHT
Grabbing the eraser: "take it back now y'all"
CHA CHA REAL SMOOTH
Cha cha reaL smooth
Criss cross! Everybody clap your hands!!
Read about Mary in the Qur'an and the scientific miracles of the Qur'an and Mohammad in Hindu scripture (zakir niak) and song of Solomon ch5v16 Hebrew
Man, my lines are still so gay
glide straight arm, use shoulder for extra long lines. dont move wrist.
@@arvin24ph no, they’re not straight, they’re gay
💀
Amazing comment.
@arhamjain959
💀
Also - lift your hand and use the shoulder motion. That advice helped me so much and I've seen a bunch of professional artists swear by it.
what is the shoulder motion?
@@favouronwuka2156 Like... moving your shoulder instead of the wrist?
That doesn’t make it worse for you? I’ve been seriously studying art for a decade and I still can’t trace lines or shapes with my hand down, but when I lift it and try drawing with my arm it’s like a robot not knowing how to control its parts. There’s a literal disconnect between my brain and where my body or other objects are in space. I might just be too disabled to learn art but I seriously thought stability was better for everyone..?
@@jasond.b-w That's just because you aren't used to it. Art studios recommend using your shoulder as it allows you to create accurate large motions.
"the angle is off when you're drawing freehand"
Me whose angle is off even with a ruler:
Omg YES
:D
You probably put the ruler over the line and readjusted it but it's angle is off so you readjust that side which makes the other side- you get it
SAME ITS NEVER PARALLEL TO THE PAPER EDGE
@@aeea3306 ...they are saying the first initial line they can't get right... in fact in highschool my frie ds joked with me saying "straight lines" because even with a ruler it would always be off 😂 some people and lines don't get along and that is okay everyone's brain works different after all.
A regular school notebook is ideal for this.
This man gives us SO much practical, useful information. This is so simple and yet, I never even thought to do this.
OMG. This has got to be one of the best pieces of advice I've needed that art classes never taught me. I've struggled for years and I appreciate your tip more than you may ever know.
I rememeber at some point not needing a ruler to make tables in my notebooks. Gotta get back in shape💪
This is one of the few art channels that has consistently good advice
"Straight lines are used constantly in art no matter what you are drawing"
Circles rn: 👁️👄👁️
I try to make a straight line but end up doodling because i see something in the curved line lmaooo
Bros blinking for his life
Morse Code.
not to mention drawing with your wrists locked and off the page. The motion should come from your elbow and shoulder.
There are less joints there so there's less room for error with straight lines
I didn’t know I was teaching myself when I drew over lines in my speckled journal when I was bored in class, but yeah! I totally helped
Was drawing a straight line on a building sketch . And got it wobbly instead :) .Glad to find an exercise to improve.
Was that Molly Alcock at the end?
your the man Mr Proko way to be a master 👍💪🔥
I realy like these small tips i can easily practice while doodling!
Cool tip! I'll try it out.
Thank you so much
Thanks for the tips Proko I can now draw straight and horizontal lines
This helped so much
I just wanna thank you for always giving such helpful exercises, because as someone with tremors and a predisposition to Parkinson's, I've always struggled with hand-eye coordination... These exercises are really helping me, and I feel like I'm really improving!😊
sir can you teach about how to actually observe in nature for drawing
Thank you!
It’s probably a good idea to color the first line so you can more accurately see where you messed up after many repetitions
Thanks I love the way you help me and to all the another people that need help with art or to the people who just want to watch art 🖼 ❤❤❤ thank you fro al that you do.❤❤👍👍
When I make "fields of circles" and turn the paper, I notice I get them all stretched a bit. They're ellipses, not circles. And what upsets me the most is I can't see this distortion AT ALL when looking normal. It means I always make mistakes I don't notice no matter how long I look. Even knowing they're distorted I can't see when they're right side up. After 30 years... Maybe I'm hopeless.
I’m hopeless too. I literally cannot trace lines or shapes without half of them going in the wrong direction or crossing each other. I can’t write letters or draw curved lines because they don’t bend the right way and when I say they’re slanted, I mean my S’s are two hills, or sometimes infinity signs, and I can’t feel it happening. When I try to trace lines and curves I literally FEEL my arm moving the way the shape curves, but watch my line stray further and further away from it. It’s impossible to explain to people who don’t experience it.
Have you ever been referred to OT for spatial or motor dysgraphia, by any chance? Or, does it affect your ability to write letters too?
@@jasond.b-w I suspect I might have neural defects but small ones, not noticed by normal examination. I was never diagnosed anything like that but I do have problems making lines right. Then again, I cannot compare. Well, maybe if I had a friend master artist that would be so close I could torture him asking about every tiny detail of his working process... Other than that, I cannot know if it's my personal problem or a general problem to everyone. It could be I'm fighting what others simply accept. It could be I'm broken a bit... It's also hard to tell because I have large hands. Wide bones. Writing becomes harder as the size of my palm makes paper further away, if you know what I mean. The bones also move less. I have a "stone hand". Too stiff, whether playing something that requires mouse precision or drawing details. I'm not that rich to afford being examined that thoroughly and by a good doctor so I may never know...
Thanks for sharing though. Feeling less alone is nice.
I'm practicing it for quit a while...and it helped me a lot😊
And I just thought I was bad at drawing straight lines.
As an artist the best feeling in the world is drawing a perfect straight line or a circle the first time😂.
I've been practicing regularly ,so i tried to draw a line without any guidance. It was almost perfect 😂.
Dang this guy is on another level.
This is helpful
I do the same thing with circles. My curves are almost always off. I'll get there one day.
good idea
One thing I learnt before is to hold the pencil like how chinese artists hold their brushes. That gives a lot of support and stabilises hand and makes it easier to draw straight lines.
damn, i love you,maaan
Tips from a graphic communications worker here, move your whole arm up to your elbow not just your wrist, cause if you use just your wrist then your lines will be much more prone to curving. Also try hold the pencil half way up or more like he does in the video and hopefully you’ll be getting straighter lines soon 👍👍
i did this so many times in my art class lmao
I curve to the left
I like how some of the initial example "straight lines" are off.
The secret to drawing straight lines is simple. Don't draw the line, bring the pen to the end point in one swift motion. Never failed me
This is exactly the problem I have right now; people think I’m exaggerating when I say I can’t even trace lines accurately. I just don’t understand the part about adjusting it to improve. I’ve been seriously studying art for a decade now and I still can’t trace simple lines or shapes with half of them going the wrong direction or crossing and nothing I can do seems to be correcting it. I even fail at using a ruler. It hasn’t improved in ten fucking years. How do you fix yourself at this point?
I wish i could help you but the best thing i could tell you is signing up for classes
Tip don't push to hard or you will be following the dent you pushed into the paper
I need this for furniture drawing for school / my career. All these dudes can just draw 3d blocks and straight lines and my lines don't curve to the right or left, they're all wonky and differ in thickness. It might just be my fine motor skills, but it really sucks in this job😢
Where do you get the giant pencils
cool
Did you learn using this technique?
How to draw moon? (Fastest way)
Use your finger as a guide or ruler
You can use a college ruled paper also.
i lean left (i’ve never drawn before)
Nobody Talking About that he Has two different eyecolors
he has not
So why not just use a straight edge whenever you need a straight line?
You can hack a straight edge by drawing against pencils, pens, other paper and more. But that's always relying on something else.
Building up your skill at drawing them will make you faster, when drawing something like several smaller lay-in lines, as well as hone your ability to make exactly the mark you intend to when you move your pencil.
❤❤❤❤❤
Wha if I’m drawing a circle?
if you want to make a straight line just use a ruler, now if you want to make a proper curve, that's tricky.
👍
yaa
Trying to mirror this angle on my yautja (predator) mask had been a doozie
Poor paper😢
"No such thing as mistakes only happy accidents."- Bob Ross
Art can't be wrong. Its impossible for it to be wrong. I do landscape art i can't think of a point where a straight line is need in landscapes.
"Wrong" is only ever used in art when talking you really missing the mark on doing what you intend to. Like trying to nail a likeness for a portrait.
As I'm sure you've used or seen, long straight lines are used in landscapes. Some pull those lines by hand or use a palette knife to shortcut making those lines. Your preferred subject may not feature a lot of those lines but lines certainly occur in nature.
@@ProkoTV lines do but not straight lines. World isnt perfect there's always curves. I never once seen a real naturally occurring horizon that was perfectly straight, its impossible. Mountain ranges and hills have rolls and jagged edges. Not even water is straight it always ripples in the wind or a fish just under the surface. Telling me im wrong isnt correct. Even doing a protrait of someone there's no straight lines anywhere located on or in the human body not even bones. Only man made things have straight lines there for its not nature it's man-made human structures or artificial nature.
I guess this could help you be more precise but still nothing's perfect. I watch art videos for inspiration precision is not needed in landscape art there's nothing precise about landscapes.
@@NatashaWinland this is interesting to me, where do you go in nature where that is the case? Sounds like you haven't visited a desert, high Mesa, calm lake or other body of placid water, been to the Midwest, the ocean, anywhere there has been glacial movement, seen rock striations, rutilated quartz, columnar basalt, crystalline formations, a snowflake, a light stream, a palm leaf, nor found depth perception guidelines helpful, which sounds really tough to imagine.
@@donnawestbrook8992 earth is round not flat. The ground has a slight curve naturally. Drawing it completly straight is wrong. Only man made things are perfectly straight. A desert isnt flat is has sand dunes and divets. The planet itself has a curve to it, parts may look flat but theyre not its always slightly curved.
@@NatashaWinland saying it doesn't make it so. The curvature of the earth is only visible from at or above 35,000 feet or 10,600 meters, and you obviously have been below that altitude and seen an unimpeded horizon. Choosing not to draw that is your right, but doesn't mean it doesn't exist and can't be drawn with a strait line. Any reasonable person can view crystalline formations and rutilated inclusions in quartz and see the straight lines. Even a child looking at a snowflake under a microscope knows better than to think strait lines are all man made.
Straight like that arrow i took to the elbow which ruined my art career.
draw a box.
Is it just me or is he blinking an unhealthy amount
Also it sucks coming from digital art when you get so used to like… auto straight lines?
Yeah, I’m drawing a circle😂😂😂
Don't use the wrist use your whole arm
Bruh, why do you need to practice drawing straight lines if you can just chicken scratch it?
not being a hater but i think any art should be considerd art straight or not
my lines gay what the hell man
DrawABox.jpg
Bro RUclips is broken it shows 0 comments and there are a billion (I'm not serious 😂)what the hell is wrong with RUclips?
Straight but not as G word😂
I do this, but I use the Mona Lisa as a reference.