Why you should practice drawing
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- It seems obvious that you need to practice scales when you learn the piano, so you need to practice "scales" when you learn to draw.
By practicing and repeating patterns and drawing strokes that you find difficult, you will build up muscle memory, just like riding a bike.
If you can draw things without thinking about them, it leaves working memory free in your brain for the important parts of the drawing.
Remember - Practice! Practice! Practice!
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Drawing helps me with anger as I struggle with anger it is my place I go and I watch these videos to calm and it always works thank you
Same
That first pattern kills me. Whenever I try it, my consistency goes out the window. I think that will be a daily warm up for me. Geez you make it look so easy.
Thanks for the inspiration. I am just starting and have been struggling with what to practice.
When I first started watching I was thinking 'isn't this silly', but then after watching 100 or more other drawing videos I realized that you have a major point. This is what I did to start a business 40 years ago (retired now), I practiced every day even if I didn't have an assignment; I made up my own assignment & progressed from there. You are correct, nothing comes without practice, Thank you for this video. I hope some of the 'younger' people viewing this do pay attention to your ideas. This is now my #1 bookmark in this section.
Thank you for such a quick reply. I will do what I can to support you & have sub'd you. Warm regards, Larry
Heh heh after a year or so you develop a nice bump on your middle finger. That's when you know you're an artist!
@@chodeshadar18 so true!! I hold my pencil wrong so I've gotten the bump on my right ring finger lmao, I noticed it getting bad in the 5 the grade and now I'm 35 and it's flattened my nail bed now too lol! And NOW I'm finding out I've been holding it the wrong way..🙄... So now I'm gonna get one on my middle finger too? 😂 Great
i don't know if your going to check this, doesn't matter, i drew several squares, the first pass i did very large bubbles, did this a bunch of times, then made 1/2 size of that and did bubbles in 1/2 size, did this a bunch of times, i am at 1/8 size of where i started, i am glad i worked from large to smaller size, i can get the bubbles pretty even size accross the square. very cool, i'll do the same progression from large to small for the rest of the squares and the various drawings you have suggested. thanks
Finally I come across the daily exercises that I've been dreamed of. Previously I just did circles, ovals and straight lines. Thanks a big lot!
I've always felt like I wasn't and couldn't be artistic. Thank you sir! You've inspired me. :)
Your voice is soo relaxing
As you said, this exercise is like meditation. Thank you very much.
Not boring. I find it soothing. :) I love it! I've been writing and drawing with my non dominant hand. It is so good for you soul and you creativity, obviously ! Thank you!
I went back to drawing after finishing college coz it really helps me be more motivated. I never really thought of making it a career but as a hobby instead. Lately though, I feel like I dont know how to draw anymore and its making me frustrated. Seeing your tutorial reminded me of the basic practices when I started drawing. Thank you for making this video! You just got another subscriber. Keep up the good work! Sorry for my english :)
SHOO! I had to write with a big thank you for mentioning zentangle in this video. I have begun a zentangle journey since watching this video and doing all right with my tangles. Some are better than others. It helps that there is no wrong way to do it, you just keep doing it and things improve. I needed this kind of perfectly imperfect structure of tangling to get back on the drawing bandwagon after many years on the computer. Thanks again and Blessings to you!
Just found your channel Shoo, and instantly subscribed! Thank you for sharing your talent. Very much appreciated. I’m working on picking up drawing after many years as a computer graphic artist and tech writer. It’s a great hobby for retirement and I’m having fun. Thank you for these exercises. It’s exactly what I needed. Blessings to you!
The video is a nice one :) It motivated me to do draw further. What I usually do when I am angry or upset is , just start scribbling, as in scratching my pencil on the page... some how every time I come up with different styles and patterns which are unique ! It really helps me calm down, as you said!
This is the best explanation for practicing drawing. Clear, concise, and very encouraging! Great job!!! Love that you mentioned the thing about people being able to play the piano or not -- great insight!
Prior to starting a tedious portrait of people I don't know, I love to draw complex doodles for a while before I begin. It triggers that creative high so I can start my painting with my mind primed. Just a few sketches and I'm in the mood.
Listening to you is about as mesmerizing as listening to Bob Ross! AND it's an absolutely useful advice for a beginner like me. Thank you so much for taking the time to record this video.
I always admired artist but always said im the absolute worst at it. Now im hoping to learn through doodling every day. Feels like zen meditation, very relaxing. Doing patterns.
Wow, I am REALLY aggravated that I only just now discovered this channel. Love the tutorials! Thank you for doing them!
I doodle on a large canvas and these patterns inspire me so much! thank youuu :)
My fav video by you
Maybe you should mention that the movement should not come from the wrist but from the whole arm.
With little patterns like that, flicking your wrist a lot becomes a habit quickly which not only makes your lines more shaky, it might also lead to carpal tunnel syndrome.
***** Well that's something you could practice practice practice then.
The size doesn't really matter as much as you'd think.
Graphics tablets translate small strokes on the tablet to large ones on the screen and foster using your wrist a lot.
If you train yourself to use the whole arm anyway, your lines will become more precise and you can do almost perfectly straight ones without a ruler which has a neat precise yet organic look to it.
That explains it, drawing with the fingers & only hand, seems to virtually force one into making only small drawings. A habit that took practice for me to get out of.
I learned the hatching tapered flick from shoo btw which was great :). But yeah, movement from the arm & wrist was very important for me to learn. It cut down on the nervous clumbsyness, Pencil, marker, brush, (tablet too!) ect it's a big help to be able to use my whole hand, or arm to swing a consistent non-wobbly line. When I use a brush especially. Drawing with the fingers only, can become a bad habit.
Thank you. I absolutely love it. Means you can practice anytime, anywhere.
Indeed practising is important, so that your hands and skills don't get rusty!
I must be doing it right if it's good to do this. I do this to all of my schoolwork, all on my arms, and in sketchbooks, on notebook paper, everywhere! It really helps soothe you
These exercises offer great stress relief.
Great to hear!
I started to learn how to make them in school last week....thank you for giving me some ideas!!!!
Thanks for this video, Shoo! I think it's a wonderful way to practice drawing, and I'm also thinking it might help some of my 2nd graders with their penmanship as well! These would be so much more fun than long strings of letters - the kids would be more willing to practice without all the groans! Thanks!!
I love your warm up drawings and strokes, their awesome 👌🏽
Thank you so much 😀
@@shooraynerdrawing I was trying to follow your warm up skills. I will try and practice it. I will to draw myself is not a good drawing person.
Thank you Rayner..I'm learning to draw and I really needed to be shown this..It has taught me what to do and why..You have given me a lot..thank you very much..Bill
this is really cool technique for people that are constantly trying to find new cross hatch patterns
good video
i completely agree when you say that you need practice to learn how to draw
ive told so many people that say they simply couldnt that they could with practice
I do like your voice. It's putting me to sleep, not cuz this video is dull, your voice is soothing. It's like listening to a guided meditation lol
Just recently told the wife I wanted to learn to draw, or at least improve on what I could do. For Christmas she surprised me with some sketch pads, a set of graphite pencils and a similar pen to what you are using. Was looking for practices or different things I could do day-to-day to improve and found this video. Thanks for making it and look forward to going back through your library to see what other gems there are to offer. Any other practice tips ?
That's great - and thanks for joining me on Patreon too!
This video was very beneficial to me and trying to get back into my "groove" of drawing.
Thanks for introducing zentangle to me. i simply love it.
I've been drawing for some time. And i was or at least I thought i was past the frustrated ness. or at least I thought. an even though I would practice practice practice practice. I still hated how i rendered a thumb nail before a finalized finish. An I was ready to quit drawing after I tried other methods. I seen this kind of practice for some time ago. as a result. I've got my hand back with in not even 2 days.. this is the most boring exercise I've ever done. but indeed effective..
Thank you sooooo much.
Thanks a lot Rayner.
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You have a voice for radio, Shoo.
I heard a cat ... I respect this man.
Augusto Abarca I heard it to. Thought it was mine and responded.
This comment made my day thank you
This is a fantastic idea. I'll give it a try. AND I can't wait for the Nativity drawing video(s)!!!!! I loved the one you showed briefly on the other Christmas video. Thanks!
Thank you so much......I am new to drawing and this so helpful to develop technique instead of short cuts and tricks! Thank you!
I am in love with the art too! I still don't have any really nice drawings with watercolors, because my watercolors aren't that nice... But I love that you are... That... Old? Or I don't know, you just inspire me and make me love art even more!
I do similar things for hand control exercises. Nice. Thanks for sharing.
this is the cutest video of the year so far
simple fun warmup...love it!
I do an art form called Zendoodle which allows you to relax and do calming exercises with patterns like these. Thank you. I have been in an awful rut lately and now I can just do what I feel and worry less about being a perfect artist. These are relaxing exercises. I have issues with my hands due to nerve damage but I refuse to stop drawing. LOL Looks like I have a LOT of practicing to do.
Shoo Rayner I have not however I will try that now that you mentioned it. I am never going to stop drawing. If I have to learn to draw with my other hand or even toes I will. LOL I have been doing this my whole life. I stopped for many years and got back into it about 12 years ago. I am self taught and enjoy many art mediums as well as styles of art.
Thankyu, every word and concept you said is a treasure! (a big fan of you from Buenos Aires)
OMGoodness! I thought the exact thing when I first heard your voice then you read my mind at 4:33. I love your voice and the rhythm of the drawing. I went to udemy and listened for 10 seconds to an illustrator's voice and thought no way could I listen to that for 4 hours. My voice also is annoying with its too-happy cadence. Yours? I don't care what you're teaching. I'd learn something! You should narrate books. In the meantime, you've inspired me to practice.
thanks, these 'skills' are a good way to start, seems like a lot of beginning tutorials go to drawing like a master, i'm not there yet, i am going to practice these skills for awhile,,
Thank you
I'm going to try practicing like this more, thanks for the video. Great.
Thanks again as this was a good exercise to do. Given that I am very new to drawing the more relaxed the hand is the better the movement and outcome of the drawing. Excellent and cheers.
Just love it!!!!! It`s not boring! But, yes, it`s meditation!!! Plus, I really enjoy your narration!!! Thank you so much for sharing! :)
Man, I am watching this video in 2021 and we still play the same GTA that came out in 2013...
you are very talented and I really really really like how calm your voice is. ^^
Love your exercises! Thanks!
Hahaha I woke about an hour ago. When you said that you were starting to hypnotize us my head started dropping. Then I giggled and woke again. Thinking you could be a superhero or super villian. "The hypnotic sketcher".... Stopping people in their tracks with his hypnotic voice and sketches.....
ZAP BAM SCRIBBLE.
Thank you for the amazing video!
I'll try to fill at least a page of those per day 🙎
Thanks for sharing. I needed this.
I really like this!
This is. Great. Show me what to do without annoying music drowning out his voice, 🙏 thank you.
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Wonderful-thank you !
WOW, that is relaxing in some way, thank you😍🙌✨
I was in marching and concert band and know practice is needed for many things in life, not just music. Just learning how to march itself needs practice before you can start starting to play an instrument. However, I have been surprising myself with experimenting with mediums I haven't used for my final drawing class in college. I managed to somehow get an awesome midterm in pastels(with not knowing what I was doing) and now doing detailed rendering with two pelicans in ink and watercolor for my final with ending up stuck using one board for two sheets of Reeves due a shortage of big boards. Irony is, I am doing very well considering I haven't touch watercolor since before college.
Perfect
"I'm hypnotizing you" haha! ...I hit the Subscribe button
good job thanks lot
Wow this is really really good and a helpfull video. Thanks for sharing it with us!
Thanks
Wonderful skills dear👌👌Rather I find it more interesting and satisfying😍Loved it and impressed👍Stay connected dear😍😍😍😍
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Around how many years did it take for you to start having enough control over your lines to get to the point of being able to try exercises like this, if you don’t mind me asking?
I’ve been seriously studying the fundamentals for a decade now, about 7 years of that with daily hours-long sessions, stressing myself out to the point of not being able to eat and spending a lot of those years underweight. I still can’t draw or even _trace_ simple lines or curves, let alone make basic constructive shapes. Patterns like this are out of the question for me.
I used to spend hours trying to connect dots with lines and just never even got close. When I try to trace lines, I physically FEEL my arm following it correctly…and just watch my own line stray further and further away, and I can’t figure out how to correct it. All my lines go the wrong directions, curve when they’re not supposed to, they cross each other when I don’t think they’re anywhere _near_ each other; my curves either go the wrong way or have too many curves and always get mad compressed for no reason, and my shapes are so wrong that I can’t look at them and remember what shape I was trying to draw. I never made it past single lines. It just seems like no amount of practice can fix me.
I haven’t improved even _slightly_ in anything in ten years and art has become so damaging to my already-hopeless mental health that I had to stop the daily exercise failures three years ago. Now I have to plan my art days around when it’s safe to feel more suicidal than I always do.
I’m disabled and was never able to learn how to write, either-and I’ve seen some artists say ‘if you can write, you can draw.” I’ve had a bunch of specialist OTs and my most recent few all determined I should be relying on a tablet for typing 100%, and enlisting a scribe for legal paperwork (neither of which I can afford.) I’m struggling to figure out if accessibility is the problem, or if ten years just isn’t enough to start building this kind of foundation. Do I just have to accept that this is impossible for me?
Firstly, I am not an expert on motor skills, neurology or mental health. I only comment from personal experience.
After years of daily practice - " 7 years of that with daily hours-long sessions" - you should be able to draw any line anywhere and make it do what you want.
To me, the dot to dot statement is the most interesting thing in your message. It leads me to think that you are wired up differently or maybe have structural or physical differences, but people are probably hesitant to say that to you these days. Maybe it is impossible for you to draw in a traditionally accepted way. Traditionally accepted styles are designed to keep people out and the price of art high! So forget about at markets and expectations, draw in your way for yourself.
I would say my pen control in fine detail is not very good, even with all my practice, and I too often draw curves the wrong way especially if I rush - which is almost always! I'd say I have a sort of drawing dyslexia like that. When I accepted that and did what I did best, things got better. I leave fine control drawing to those who do it best ( incidentally those people always say they wish they could draw loose the way I do! The grass is always greener on the other side.)
If you can draw single lines, do that - take a look at picasso drawings.
Personally, if something I have chosen to do is stressing me out, I stop and do something else. If you are not doing it for work or obligation, then you must surely be doing it for pleasure. If it's not a pleasure, then either make it pleasurable by doing it your way for you, or stop and try something else.
There is so much expectation in art - that you should be able to draw "properly". Cameras now do the job of traditional "proper" drawing, so you are free to draw anything you like in anyway you like. If no one else likes it, that's their problem. Just draw for yourself and if no one else understands... so what? You do!
Eventually people come around to accepting different ways of seeing and presenting the world in art - then they call it genius and charge top dollar!
Your comment has provoked thoughts in me and I'm now going to see about making a video on this subject.
“It’s like Grand Theft Auto. If you do those little thumb movements each day, then eventually you get [to do the hidden Hot Coffee sex mini-game].”
And yes, in this analogy, making a masterpiece like Leonardo da Vinci is the laughably low-poly Hot Coffee sex mini-game. Your example choice, not mine. 😂
Great advice, it's working for me! Especially the nagging left side of the brain!😃
i was waiting for this !
thanks shoo
Thanks for the video!
so helpful, finally i got a good point to pick up drawing
😂I think this picturesque table of contents is fantastic....thanks!
thats pretty like a knitted square only just found this thanks
Looks a lot like Zentangle. Great way to practice and warm up. :)
Looks exactly like Zentangle. Beware, Zentangle is corporate and might sue for plagarism or whatever iT is you call the art equivalent..
I've recently started doing this daily practice so i can hopefully improve
so, how's your practice are doing? did you improved or still are doing it?
i will definitely do this...i want to draw so bad that I really screw up a lot...thanks for sharing
This is so satisfying to watch. 💜💜
Someone kind of already mentioned this but you sound a bit like a British Bob Ross
He doesn't....just a few times when he says Too.....
I believe part of it's because Bob and Shoo both tapped into that meditative flow, that "zone," he was talking about (where repetition helps the right side of the brain sort things out). Kind of a muscle of the heart-mind connection. Stuart Davies, who has a youtube channel for oil painting, reminds me of, and sounds like them too :-)
Like it. Thank you!
True about the voice thing you said! 😀
some great skills
Adorable
This is more sketch than a drawing, sketch is drawing most of the time without a rule to improve your design.
you remind me of bob ross like the sound of your voice and the calmness you have :D just random thoughts wayyyy too late at night
realy helpfull! tanks
Lol there's actually a term for the voice thing... Autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR as fanboys say it. It's triggered by an experience that tingles in the brain, literally. Bob ross use to be king of inducing that. Things like sounds and scrapes do the same thing. Hm I gotta try rubbing two pickles together...
HAH HA. Before reading this comment I was even already thinking about "Happy little trees"
wow nice
Thank you sir!
By Daniel
Romania
I was thinking ' I like his voice' at the exact same time you said people like to listen to your voice.
His voice is like Murdoc from Gorillaz
Omg yaa i knew he soundd like someone
Hi rayner, love your chanel ! i want to ask you if its okay for me to start learning how to draw on a tablet or if it will make me bad at drawing on paper later ? and if its better learning from book or from model photo ? thanks for answering ! and sorry for my bad english
Hi Shoo, Have you seen Michael Halbert's inkart? What type of inkart is that? I've been watching Michael's videos on his website inkart.com and on youtube and I've been wanting to learn that type of inkart.
Thank you for the video! Does it apply to digital drawing as well? Like drawing on a wacom tablet? Is it as useful? Thanks in advance!!!!
I liked the fift one and the seventh one u made
What a coincidence, I always do that thing in the beginning on the edges of my school assignments when I'm bored c:
We were doing this in nursery