10 Essential Exercises That Will Actually Improve Your Art

Just practicing isn’t enough to improve your art. The truth is, mindless practice won’t help—but structured exercises will! In this video, I’m sharing 10 essential art exercises that will help you improve your line work, anatomy, color, composition, perspective, and rendering.

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⏱ Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro
00:40 - Exercise #1: Line Quality
02:16 - Exercise #2: Sense Of Tone
03:55 - Exercise #3: Perspective and Volume
05:47 - Exercise #4: Color
06:47 - Exercise #5: Composition
07:43 - Exercise #6: Rendering
08:46 - Exercise #7: Overall Skill-Building
11:12 - Exercise #8: Stylization
12:50 - Exercise #9-10: Anatomy
14:52 - Tips For Success
17:35 - Outro

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[brycetheoddball]

Practice your fundamentals and practice them a lot. Don’t be afraid to follow your imagination as well. Like whatever cool thing you see in your head, you should draw that. If it doesn’t look good, that’s a good thing and you go practice more and draw that thing and other cool things in your head again.

[geewolf]

i interact with a lot of beginner artists, i finally have a vid i can recommend to them for practice ideas ^^

[Ryyyryuuu]

This might be the best video about art I’ve seen. Its really good structured and got everything important included

[t]

Very good video, organized and giving advice on the psychological perspective of learning to draw.

[NO_kiko]

This clip is calm, useful and organized... In addition, your voice tone is good and soothing as an elementary school teacher. I wish you a nice day and thank you.

[krissteinz]

The studying just small parts of others work is one I never heard of but seems really important. Doing whole master studies can be so time consuming and over whelming

[SalmaSamer-hk]

Iam beginner artist and this video is a life saver i already being overwhelmed with YouTube channels talks about what to exercise and don't know how to start and with what so thank you for organizing it in one video

[Tridnt]

All good methods. I like to use the overhand method with the Apple pencil to get lively gesture lines

[nivlaccc]

YO I JUST TRIED AND PAINTING ALONG THE FORMS IS

[rayzrsharp]

Phenomenal video! Extremely clear and practical. Subscribed!!

[NyimaArts]

I absolutely love your art style and it's fantastic that you started a channel sharing your knowledge, keep going Marsa you are doing great :)
(also I think an Arcane study/rendering video would be really cool :D)

[brandneweyes]

Agree with everyone else — fantastic video! This was so easy to follow and take in, and you explained everything marvellously. Been doing little sketches here and there for the last month but this is going to motivate me to actually practice with purpose. Totally called out on using the smudge stick to blend colours :P
I would love to see how you tackle works with big, busy compositions. It's not something I'll be focusing on right now but would be great to see for future reference. And breaking down light/shadows! I struggle to understand how to change saturation/hue for light and shadows on skin a lot.

[volkrart]

thank you for explaining also why these excercises matter! this is so helpful <3

[fallenheart.]

You're amazing, Marsa! Thank you for your tips! <3 Also I love your style of editing, it's a pro!

[sahildev]

Love this video. Plz make more videos on how we can start making digital art like the step by step guide to develop an art style

[dwade]

Thank you, there are some really useful tips here.

[heartstringsduets]

These were some great exercises and different from a few I've seen others give. Thank you ! :D

[RandyRanson-dx]

Marsa that was very nice of you, thank you for the instructions.

[alexispiffeteau]

Thanks you so much for your videos ! Very helpfull 😊❤

[basharo]

thank you for this amazing video .. nice work