How to Build Line Confidence | 10min Tutorial

To increase your confidence in drawing you should focus on your lines. Build confidence and make your strokes strong! In this video we'll do a tutorial together. Grab a sketchbook and some pens to draw or work digitally. We'll be focusing on how you can make marks and lines on that communicate confidence. Your art will be better if your lines are great! A few different exercises to make you aware of which muscles to use while drawing and sketching.

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0:19 Stretch
1:08 Line confidence exercise

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[unrealgood]

finally someone who teaches us how to practice instead of all those other art YouTubers that tell us to just practice. Thank you very much

[CarlosBenjamin]

Man! I wish I spoke fluent jazz piano……..

[SamDragontear]

From 3:40 to 6:46 your voice over is gone and it's just background music. I'd really like to know what your saying during this parts.

[BGrimmart]

The parts with random music and no commentary really ruined the video

[mjyanimations]

Haha, I was already struggling when you told us to divide the canvas into 4 equal rectangles.

[TheIncidnt]

Can you remake this video king. You don’t have to delete this one, just make an updated version!

[secondconflict]

currently taking a beginning drawing class and really struggling with line confidence. I'm not used to careful lines, or representative drawing. I'm used to a much different arm and hand movement with expressive and very loose painting, so trying to be more "controlled" is just not intuitive for me. Going to try these practices and see if it helps. Thanks for posting!

[alij]

Thank you. Unfortunately when you were describing the difference between different lines your voice was silent and there was just music

[AyaSmith]

These are really just drills 😳 I do these all the time, every day and yes drills definitely help. I would love to see some future insight in your thoughts on what a quality line IS, and the mental cues you use in order to create a quality line. I do believe there is a lot of importance in the mindset, as well as slowing down. Creating less lines over all, instead of just throwing a bunch of lines down willy-nilly, take a moment to create less lines and focus on quality. Pressure is another huge factor… we must learn to draw lines with heavy pressure, but especially learn how to remove all pressure to the point we can’t hear any noise and barely see any mark. We can also use the edges of the paper as a guide for straight lines, and use the essence of calligraphy to improve our contour lines. Line is a very intense topic and fundamental, I would certainly love to follow you as you explore it ☺️👏

[pureenergy_isMnE]

🤣 Cow.... 0:02 seconds wasn't expecting that!🤣🤣🤣👍🏽👍🏽

[vidiottheowl]

I forget where I learned this, but for warm ups I start by drawing circles clockwise and counter-clockwise, 2 rotations each time, and not trying to get a perfect circle but have both loops overlap

then I draw a star/snowflake with 4 lines- so like a "+" on top of an "x", making all lines intersect at the same point. and which direction I draw the lines in is random

and lastly I just make grids. just some large 5x5 hashes

[tamasorvos]

Thank you! Been working on my line confidence and I'm sure that these exercises will come in handy.

[dopaminespikez]

i used to practice these kinds of practices before knowing this fundamental info. Thanks for clearing my Brain Pathway. (really thanks again)

[archonic_]

can't stop watching these, i learn best when the video itself has exercises and what to do. thankyou!

[HiothemasteR]

Thanks! Seriously, I really needed these exercises.

[MrAwesomeBart]

Thank you for this video. Explaining how to exercise is really important.

[Ultramini]

Exactly the kind of help i was looking for, thank you!

[Pancakes-therianchannel]

Bro is an asmr channel without knowing

[themercilessmetalhead]

is the audio cut off from the 2nd paper because you want us to be excited and then feel like we missed something important so we join up lol... but still good lesson.

[KeelerInk]

OMG that Cinder artwork behind you, so good 🥰Admittedly I chose that book because of its cover and wound up loving both.