I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we will do an exercise

to improve drawing.

And that is because the most common error for beginners, and actually

the most common error, in drawing in general, is that the drawings look stiff,

and the lines don´t flow

so I will show you the best exercise I know to remedied this.

So that your drawings looks fluid.

This error that I mentionnated in many cases comes from making

the lines too tight.

or attempting to do a long line

which is actually a series of short ones.

This may also happen when attempting to make a curved line

or a circle.

I may exaggerating a little bit but these type of lines don´t look good

and profesional.

Therefore we should concentrate in practicing making long, fluid lines.

Do the movements with your whole arm, not just from the wrist and fingers.

To practice, I recommend drawing figures with these type of lines.

It doesn´t really matter what you draw.

I´m just inventing this one as we go.

The important thing is that your lines are continuos.

They are not broken.

The lines are nice and long.

And let´s add some holes.

One on each side.

But even these ellipses, are with continuos movements.

And I will shade the holes.

The shading will be with short lines, but even these are from one end to

the other.

Don´t stop in the middle. Be decisive!

Let´s mark the cast shadow with one continuos line...

and then shade it.

With the parallel lines which is also part of the exercise.

And I will darken the area of the shadow close to the object.

Good!

And we can add some more lines as if it had an aperture or two,

just to practice making more lines.

All right!

Let´s sketch another one.

Now a big curve here on the top, as if it were a dome or something.

It really doesn´t matter what you sketch.

The important thing, again, is that your lines are continuos,

that they are flowing, that you don´t stop. I mean that you don´t stop

in the middle of a line.

Let´s make some in another direction, like this… and we can reinforce

the base, sketch the cast shadow, and fill it in.

Let´s also shade the hole on top.

Like so.

And I´ll sketch something else over here,

such as a glass or something like that

with two ellipses, and then the sides...

So simple, but clean.

And just for practice let´s draw some planes.

One… two… and three.

By doing this, soon you will feel how your hand starts loosening up.

Now we will draw a shoe... with two ovals, the end, and then a line for

the overall shape, with an oval on top.

This of course is not a real shoe. I am making it up as we go,

we are just practicing making continuos lines, like this.

Good!

Now let´s think about a futuristic vehicle. Very aerodynamic and with

long continuos lines.

Again, this doesn't need to make a lot of sense, what it is important

is that your lines are fluid, continuos, clean, not erratic.

Let´s shade the windshield, add an air intake, a flap or wing over here.

Very good!

Everything with loose, continuos lines.

We can shade this, add something over here…

And maybe we can redesign the lower part of it.

I´m just playing around to practice making these smooth lines.

I´ll darken this further.

Good!

I think you get the idea.

Let´s just make one final little sketch over here… of a yacht.

Of course it this important for these lines, that you hold the pencil or pen

softly, not tight.

And as we mentioned that you do the movement, with your whole arm.

I recommend doing these exercises daily for a few minutes

maybe as a warm up before you draw.

And you will very soon, feel the difference.

If you enjoyed it, please give it a LIKE! share it to your friends

and subscribe to Fine Art-Tips.

You know where to follow me the links are below.

And I will see you, on Tuesday ;)

Subtitled by Grethel Trejo