Easy Drawing Exercises for Beginners
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
- Six simple drawing exercises to get you started! Suitable for complete beginners who are learning to draw but also great as warm up exercises for intermediate artists.
-- EASY DRAWING EXERCISES FOR BEGINNERS --
If you are just starting out on your drawing journey, these drawing exercises for beginners will help you to loosen up, warm up and create muscle memory for creating the different types of lines and movements needed for successful drawings.
Once we've tried out some basic exercises I'll show you how to apply them to some simple drawings to show how useful these drawing exercises can be.
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00:00 Easy Drawing Exercises for Beginners
00:30 Ellipses, Circles, Ovals
01:58 Lollipops
03:51 Pinwheels
05:50 Hills & Valleys
07:59 3D Vessels
10:54 Leaves
12:26 Fruit
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Get your pencil out! Start with the basics and test your dexterity.
you are going too fast with the drawing
please go slower
i am not a fast drawer
@@tahseim-kaifolkes1445 Hi, We all draw at different speeds so I'd recommend watching each exercise and then pausing the video to do it in your own time. You can also slow down the video speed using the settings button but you might want to turn the sound down because it will sound funny!
ok thanks
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This is a great tutorial! Such a nice variety, very well explained, and bonus, you are a lefty as am I! These exercises should help me to steady my hand, arm, and shoulder.
Excellent. Thank you so much for such simple instructions and easy exercises.
These are very useful! Great in practicing the different grips.
Great exercises! So very helpful. Thank you!
Amazing! Thank you!
I'm so happy I found a video that is not fast pace. Definitely subscribing.
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After searching hundreds of videos, I’m glad I found yours. Thank you for helping teach an old dog something new!
Thanks for your lovely comment! More videos to come, hope you find them useful!
These warmups are helpful, many thanks!
Very useful and wonderful exercises
Hi! I just discovered this tutorial today while exploring RUclips. I just want to say this is the type of approach I need in a beginning drawing class. I took an in person beginning drawing class over five years ago & the approach was very difficult to comprehend. Plus, I do not fair well in beginning hands-on classes that have more than ten students. So, thanks for this video-that was not only personal- but made it easier for me to comprehend the concept of beginning drawing.🙂
So glad you found it useful! Yes there are lots of different approaches to teaching drawing and what suits some may not suit others. I’ve found that some people love learning the technical aspects like perspective and other people prefer working on practical projects. Neither is right or wrong, you’ve just got to find the style of learning that works best for you and the one you enjoy! Thanks very much for watching :)
Very helpful, thank you.
Very useful thanks ❤️
This was excellent! Thank you!
I love this!!
I love this. Thank you. I have been so stuck, just not knowing how to start a new piece (I’m all self taught) but just watching a quick run through of this, I can’t wait to just sit down and have fun fussing with these exercises, without the stress of what it would look like. I think I’ve forgotten how to do that. Thanks much. :)
Aw I’m so glad to hear that! I hope you can keep up the flow of ideas after doing some of these…maybe just keep you hand going and see what happens! Thanks for watching and for your lovely comment ☺️
Thank you!
Superb and very useful.
very useful thank u 👍
I've struggled with circular motions all my live, this is helping me a lot to get a better idea on how to handle these shapes. Thanks so much for this video, really useful tips.
Thanks for watching! Glad it helps :)
Highly useful video for learners of the upcoming artists big thanks to you mam
These exercises were a lot of fun and helpful. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge. 🙂
You're welcome, thanks for your kind comment ☺
Thank you. That was helpful.
I am learning fashion drawing and is different than other drawing. I always like how fashion looks in drawings...I love your exercises too.
Very helpful. Thank you.
thanks a lot!
Wow... this is really helpful please keep on uploading, wanna learn and want to be an art teacher ❤
Thank You. Practicing 😺
Thanks loads❤❤❤
Thanks ❤,learn the basic shape will draw anything
Hi, I'm so glad that I've come across your platform and looking forward to trying your exercises. I've always loved to doodle and have drawn a few things but I would love to be able to move more freely in my endeavours in this enjoyable activity. I'll definitely be following your channel. I'm 63 and believe one is never too old to learn. Thanks
Never too late to learn! Thanks for following!
Excellent exercises. Thank you.
Thanks for watching 🙂
This is lovely and a great reminder to practice. Many thanks.
You’re welcome ☺️ thanks for watching
Fantastic tips - thank you!
Thanks for watching!
Amazing 👍👏
im glad i found your channel thank youu
Brilliant 🌻
Thank you for showing us how to draw and warm up practice. I appreciate it.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you. Waiting for next class
So helpful! I'm learning to draw & this was fun!
Glad it was helpful! 😊
Great video super useful 👌
Glad it was helpful!
thanks dear😘😘😘😍❤❤❤i am very happy because i learn .
Great work💕💕💕
Big thumbs from a mad friend💐
thank u.
BROOO THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU'R THE BEST!!!!!! I LEARNED EVERYTNice tutorialNG I NEEDED TO KNOW THAN YOU VERY
Great Teacher
Thank you
Amazing video❤
Nice I save it so I could practice later.
This is a great help. Thank you so much ❤️
You're welcome, thanks for watching :)
excellent tutorial
Nice 👍👍👍
You are excellent teacher!!!🥰
Thank you! 😃
Extremely nice
Very talented
Awesome
I like your skills, you are getting good at it...
Thanks to YTs algorithm, your channel was recommended to me. I‘ve been trying to get back into drawing, it’s been a long time. Back to the basics is perfect. Your calm voice and explanations/exercises are great, thank you. I left a subscription.
Thanks so much! Glad to hear you are getting back into drawing, take your time and put a small amount of time aside for practicing drawing each week. It all adds up! Thanks for watching 😊
Excellent explanations 😊
Thank you! 😃
Thank you . Very interesting.From France .
Thanks for watching! Greetings from New Zealand 😊
Thank you.
You're welcome, and thanks for watching!
This is my first time to practice drawing, and I had fun. Waiting for more vdeos that teach for beginners
This is a good video to start with! Its a good idea to practice the exercises for a few weeks to get used to the movements and develop coordination. Then when you feel ready you might like to have a go at my video called Drawing Tutorial For Beginners: Sketching and Shading. There will also be some simple drawing tutorials for faces coming up in the next few months. Thanks for watching!
awesome
Perfect! Thank you! I am sharing this with my friend also! 🖋🖊😁
Thankyou! I hope you both enjoy it :)
@@ThePencilRoomOnline Yes we did! I am teaching my friend to draw and when I find a good video that teaches basics and movement I send them to her! She loved it.😁🖊🖋
I'm scared this video on Pinterest and I plan on doing these exercises tomorrow. Thank you so much❤
I guess you saved the video and are not scared of the video 😅 Hope you enjoy it 💚
I love you teaching style, it's very clear and relaxing....very easy to follow. I felt like I was in a profesional art class.Thank you so much. I noticed a big improvement in my ease of flow when sketching. ❤
Thank you, that’s lovely to hear :) And I’m glad it helps loosen things up!
Good job
Finally, actually helpful advice for complete beginners. Thank you! Everyone assumes you been to artschool or have some drawing experience. And i did not draw anything since school, and never was good at it.
Thanks for your comment! Really glad it was helpful! You might like the videos in this playlist of my practical exercises and tutorials: ruclips.net/p/PL-i_GDP6hCKmm4oCA6Sq6FFe3ShqeUk5v&si=AQ-723XYZup7AK1y
Try not to worry about whether you are good at it or not, it takes a while to develop drawing coordination but hopefully you can have fun practicing!
@@ThePencilRoomOnline Thanks, i will check those out.
You are amazing l am taking interest in drawing .Very well explained
Me and my friend decided to start a comic, but she only really does pixel art. I'm really excited to learn how to draw!
This is wonderful, thank you so much. I just shared this video on Pinterest. I hope it helps your Channel.❤
Thank you! 😊
As a beginner i find it helpful
Completely new to drawing but something that i have noticed through this intro is that i can draw circles backwards way better than the direction i normally draw.
There is usually one direction that feels easier! thats a good discovery to make 🙂
You are brilliant can you please show how to draw a chimney thank you n keep up the great work
Thanks Geraldine, I dont have a specific video for drawing a chimney but you might find my videos on one point perspective and two point perspective (coming out soon) useful :)
Started exercises today. Should we get to a point where we are able to use our shoulder and wrist? Eventually I found myself doing so.
Yes eventually with practice it should become easier and feel natural to draw from the shoulder moving the whole arm. This gives you freedom of movement. Sometimes drawing only from the wrist is necessary, doing the flicks etc. But ideally you’ll get to a point where you feel comfortable with both ways and can use them when they suit the best! Thanks for watching and keep practicing :)
Hello. I like both your drawing techniques and your delivery. Are your latest classes for Beginners on Udemy or Skillshare?
Thank you
P.S. What type pencil are you using?
Hi! Thanks for your kind comment. Yes, Learn To Draw course is available on Udemy, or plenty of drawing tutorials on Skillshare, link in the video description above. Im using a Staadtler Wopex pencil, its nice and smooth and its a 2B, not too light not too dark :)
3D vessels blew my bloody mind.
🤯😆 Thanks for watching!
Ellipses are very hard for me. I tried using a template to draw some perfect ones and then practiced following that outline freehand and it seems to help...
They are tricky. The key at the moment is to not worry about them being perfect (if we want them perfect we can just use a compass!) but to focus on practicing the movement for creating ellipses. I do have another video here on RUclips about how to draw circles: ruclips.net/video/GqdDL6li4SQ/видео.html
The most valuable method to practice is the rhythmic circles method, it will take time to develop the coordination but its worth it!
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Very useful tutorial..
I love my pencils, love my sketchbooks, but I never dared to draw.,Now let me start with you. :)
I'm a real beginner but I practice drawing once a week!
Excellent 😇
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Really helpful 👍
One question : are you left-handed? I'm a left handed beginner
Glad it was helpful. Yes I am left handed - I just realised the flipped image in the thumbnail makes me look righthanded! :D
Is your hand actually resting on the paper, or are you keeping it mostly above the paper while you draw?
Yes, hand is resting on the paper for support, but moving with the line. Think of it as sliding your hand across the paper.
9:54 in this video ruclips.net/video/ing1x95WZ_I/видео.htmlsi=6JE2KZ-RLPiFNwJ_ talks a bit more about it :)
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Here’s an interesting observation about your drawing of pinwheels @3:50 . You draw the first pinwheel in your natural direction, adding each blade in a counter clockwise direction. Then you begin the second pinwheel. When you add the second blade, it’s in a clockwise direction. But the third and remaining blades are back to being added in the counter clockwise direction. The third pinwheel in your natural direction also has all the blades added in a counterclockwise direction.
Now you switch to drawing pinwheels in the opposite direction. The first pinwheel, you again add each blade in a counter-clockwise direction. But the second pinwheel, you add all the blades in a clockwise direction!!! You then draw many more pinwheels , all having their blades added in the counterclockwise direction. Clearly, you favor the counter-clockwise direction since you drew every pinwheel but one in the counter-clockwise direction! On some level, you intuited that the exercise should include the clockwise direction since you did draw one pinwheel like this. Did you notice it yourself when you drew it?
The first warm-up exercise of drawing circles included drawing circles both in our natural direction as well as our opposite direction to challenge our brains and muscles. In similar way, the pinwheels should include this challenge/exercise as well. Subconsciously, you drew all but one pinwheel in the counterclockwise direction. Others will do the same. It would be good for the exercise to include the challenge to add the blades in the clockwise direction as well. First, draw the pinwheel in your natural direction, adding the blades in the counterclockwise direction. Next, draw the pinwheel still in your natural direction, but switch to adding each blade in the clockwise direction. Next, draw the pinwheel in the opposite direction, blades added counterclockwise. And finally draw the pinwheel in the opposite direction, blades added clockwise. 😉👍
Yes it’s good to practice both directions to help improve overall coordination 🙂
I've tried doing spirals and elipses as well as clockwise and anticlockwise drawing and my coordination is dreadful. If I try doing a lot it just gets worse not better. Yet i have achieved great resuts playing piano with fast runs and all that finger dexterity. So there's a bit of an anomaly here.
I have no prejudice against left handedness but it does seem to me that left handers have a very special "different" brain wiring from right handed people. Unusual connections exist for them between left and right brain hemispheres and in music that can make them impossible to beat on ability. So I'd like to see this demonstrated for a right handed person to see if they can do these exercises as skillfully as we see here. Anyhow it's an impressive video got to give it a "like".
Definitely not comparing piano dexterity with drawing dexterity, instead I’m suggesting that both require practice of the basics to progress :) With regard to left-handedness the jury is out. From personal experience teaching I do notice a high percentage of left handers with a natural inclination towards seeing the way an artist sees (translating line, shape, value onto a 2D surface) but they still need to practice and develop the same coordination skills. I notice the same thing in some right handers too so perhaps it is more a genetic disposition. I have family members who are naturally better at art than I am but they are right handed.
All I know is it takes practice to progress from whatever stage you’re at and despite any natural talent. I’m a reasonably good guitarist having practiced regularly for many years but I’m a lousy pianist after giving it a go for two months 🤷♀️ Drawing I’ve been practicing regularly for over 10 years so I’d like to think most of my skill is due to practice and commitment…and I know of many right handers who are much better artists than me!
Thanks for your interesting comment :)
Love it, but I would have appreciated mentioning using ordinary paper before I did two of these on better paper, thank you?
Hi, if you are just doing these once then a sketchbook is fine - it’s good to try them on paper you normally draw on. But if you are working on coordination regularly and doing them as warm ups every time you sit down to practice then you may not want to be filling up a whole sketchbook which is what I was referring to. You can also just draw over top of the ones you have already done the next time you practice them :) All that being said, point taken, it would’ve been better to mention it at the start!
Been playing piano by ear since I was three.
Drawing seems so elusive to me.
Lucky! There are gifted people in all creative pursuits for sure and starting young makes learning so much easier. I started learning piano as an adult so for me the struggle is a good comparison for learning to draw. Its possible to learn to draw as an adult, it just takes time and practice and an interest in drawing!
I'm trying to hold the pen lightly but still I can't just trying and trying 😩 thanks Your exercises are great.
It will take some time to break the habit of drawing with the same pressure that you write with. You can try holding the pen further back so there is less downward pressure on the tip of it. You might find this video useful Test Your Shading Skills ruclips.net/video/MtGLGhoJT4Y/видео.html - it goes over how to hold your pencil to shade very lightly. But don't stress over it, just keep practicing and it will get easier :) Thanks for watching!
@@ThePencilRoomOnline Thank you teacher this helps me a lot 🕊️
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I really want to know about pencil drawing. I am sick of scribbling and when I want something to have depth or texture I want to learn
Well these exercises are a good place to start! They will help with developing natural and fluid movement. I dont have a Learn To Draw course on RUclips yet...plans for next year...but I'd recommend starting with a simple beginners drawing course that teaches the basics. The link for mine is in the description. Another option some of my students have found useful is the Draw A Box series which starts with practicing simple shapes and lines and is free at www.drawabox.com Best of luck!
why do you not use a coloured on Heary HB pencil so we can view clearly?
I’m 73. Do I have any chance to draw simple things like old barns?
Sure you do! Old barns are a great subject and its never too late to start drawing. You might like to have a go at my video on one point perspective. I'll have another one on 1 pt perspective coming out next month where we draw an old building - not a barn but it will give you an idea of how to get the correct angles and shapes. And then start collecting photos of old barns you want to practice drawing!
@@ThePencilRoomOnline Thank you for the encouragement. I'm buying the start kit you suggested in another video and if I succeed drawing something to receive an "it's OK!" I'll feel rewarded.
@@RubinGnoni Best of luck! Just make sure you allow yourself time to practice and improve, much like learning a musical instrument. Tutorials are the best way to get some guidance on what/how to practice. "Its ok" is very different for each person and the best way to judge your drawing is to look for progress over time...a long time...I'd suggest six months or so!
Hi. I'm new at drawing and my problem is that I gets frustrated a lot because nothing is coming out the way it should be.
Hi Todd, This is actually something that a lot of students struggle with and its more a mental struggle than anything else. Its important to try and accept the level you are at and like anything else you learn - riding a bike, playing a musical instrument - it takes time and practice to develop your skills. I've started learning piano so I understand the frustration!! The drawing exercises are a good way to practice without having to produce a finished drawing so keep doing them when you have a bit of free time and see if you can treat drawing as a lesson in acceptance. With time and practice you will improve so try to enjoy it and not to let your expectations stop you from progressing. Thanks for watching and best of luck :)
I don't know why my lines on rough paper are better than smooth paper, I use the same pen and at the same moment, any idea? thank you
Rough paper is a bit more forgiving because of the texture. On smooth paper any small inconsistencies in the straightness of the line or in the weight of the line (how thick or thin) will really show up because there is no texture to hide it. Maybe also something to do with the resistance on the pencil of the rough paper? It may make it easier to control pencil marks. Just some ideas :)
Is learning how to draw first the best way to learn how to doodle
Depends on what you mean by doodle. Any type of learn to draw practice will develop hand eye coordination which will give you more control with whatever you are drawing. If there is a particular style you want to draw in, its good to find videos on that specific style and practice those too.
@@ThePencilRoomOnline thank you so much for the advice. My psychiatrist is wanting me to get my thoughts and pictures onto paper and I really want to try my hand at drawing and not just at coloring
@@kristinacuster5571 In that case I wouldn't confuse learning to draw with what you are working on with your psychiatrist. You can do both just not mixed together! In my experience with art therapy, it's beneficial to go with the flow and draw from a place of intuition. There's no judgement about whether it is good or bad, or even if it looks like something, it's about expression.
Learning to draw is a very different mode of thinking and is more about learning observation skills. I would hate for that to interfere with the benefits of art therapy - instead just let the doodling come in whatever way it does naturally to express your thoughts, it doesn't matter what it looks like.
However if art therapy has gotten you interested in taking drawing further thats great. You might like this video to start with as it has a kind of a doodling project at the end: ruclips.net/video/hOpmISBWw5s/видео.html
But my advice is to keep the two ways of drawing separate - one for intuitive expression and one for learning observation skills.
I have Parkinson’s nd lost some. Control of my h and and fingers. However I can still draw, but it is more difficult.I also have macular degeneration and my left eye is useless.
Thanks for watching Francis and I hope the exercises are helpful for you!
Thats animation right?
Not sure what you mean? The style of drawing?