DRAW CONFIDENT LINE ART! - 10 min ARTIST WORKOUTS

These artist workouts only take 10 minutes and if you continue to practice them every day you will improve your drawing skills. If you want to learn to draw confident line art, then this is the place! I also have several other artist workout videos that you can watch to improve your art skills in no time! It only takes a few minutes a day to practice and improve at drawing and painting!

Intro song = "Blue Moon" by JVNA
Games I've worked on -
Fortnite (Environment concept art)
Overwatch (Environment concept art + Sprays artwork)
League of Legends (Character design + Environment concept art, UI + Icons)
Diablo 3 (Character design + Environment concept art)
Hearthstone (Illustration)
Burning Crusade(Character design + Environment concept art)
Wrath of the Lich King (Character design + Environment concept art)
Indivisible (Environment concept art)
Final Fight Streetwise (Voice Acting + Character Design + World Design + Cutscene Direction + Co writer on script)
He Man GBA (Pixel Art)
Terminator 3 GBA (Art Direction + Pixel Art)
CannonBallers (Character + World design)
Ikeda: The Scrap Hunter (Programming + Art + Design)
Goblins and Gnomes (Concept Art)

Books available-
CreeD Re:Imaginary (2021) - 2 part Comic series
Twilight Monk - Return of the Ancients (2021) - Illustrated Novel
Twilight Monk Secrets of Kung Fulio (2020) - Illustrated Novel
Escape from Giants Crown (2019) - Illustrated Novella
World Of Twilight Monk Vol 1 (2019) Art Book
The Man and the Moonken (2019) - Illustrated Novella
The Beast of Tuksa (2018) - Illustrated Novella
Twilight Monk (2012) - 2 Graphic Novels
Nova Colony (2009) - 1 Graphic Novel
CreeD (1993-2007) - Comic Book Series
Ghost Rider (2000) - Comic Book Series
The Fuzz (1997) - Comic Book

[TheTrickyDragon]

Another tip for confident lines: Use (train) your shoulder and draw as large as you can. Big strokes with your hand and elbow locked will produce naturally smoother lines in single strokes.

[hibicotv]

This is by far the most informative tutorial I've seen involving just nailing down basic line art shapes. I'm usually met with "you just gotta practice." While I totally agree, you can't just become an expert overnight, it doesn't leave much in the realm of what good exercises would be, or how to actually go about making shapes the correct way.

[patriciosoler]

It's all about training your eyeballs and wrist and digits and brain til it becomes second-nature. Thank you for this, Trent!

[paoprika]

Looking forward to more of those videos. There are a great way to start my day!

[AzureSymbiote]

Great timing! I got my first drawing tablet a few days ago.

[cloudy]

trent, i love you man thank you so much for this

[rftm]

I was just thinking I need MOAR Trent Artist Workouts and bam. New one.

[blueink]

this video came at a great time thanks 👍

[honcianoportfolio]

This really helped me with changing my mentality. Because I know about drawing circles, but it's different on paper than it is digital. Paper I can do it by arm, but when it comes to a wacom tablet, it's mapped an entire screens, so I'm more doing my wrist than my arm. So I have to train kinda both, but I end up using my wrist more because the emotions are much much smaller.

[shottyfins]

Pure gold as usual! I am so glad the "Artist Workouts" series is back. I love this format with short exercises we can do every day to improve.

[WishMish]

Thanks for more workouts Trent! I learned some other cool line confidence workouts from Sorie Kim at Brainstorm: She had us draw straight lines in rows and then draw circles to fit between the lines at varying sizes, as well as some other exercises to get your accuracy up to do things in less strokes like draw 2 dots and connect them with one line until you get it right.

[SketchPLAY]

This equivilent to "Wax on wax off". Great stuff Trent. Thanks a mil for these workouts!

[SpaceCookie]

Great tips Trent! I'll share something I learned while taking a Viz Com class for industrial designers. Maybe it will help some of you out there. Building on what The tricky Dragon said about drawing from the shoulder, you can hover your pen above the surface and practice making several circles while slowly lowering your pen tip, when it "feels right" touch the pen tip to the surface while continuing in the same motion. For me the end result is a much smoother circle then the ones I attempt in 1 shot. Give it a try!

[lc]

Holy cow! I was just thinking about making 10 min artist workout videos yesterday! You beat me to it!

[therealswitt]

I completely forgot that the 1st 2 minutes were about showing off the practice and not actually participating, but got 5 circles finished in the time it took for this video to finish. I love your style of video and think this will help in contrast to my previous methods of practice.

[dinoblaster]

Just watched the whole video and I gotta say this is not what I would expect from you Trent, I'm not nearly as good of an artist as you but this is not how anyone should draw circles. It should be done in one stroke with the whole arm, first by pantomiming the shape then going in with a light stroke. Its okay if you disagree with me but I cant agree that this will build line confidence or dexterity.

[Semnome-svkb]

Very good! Make more of these and group then in a playlist!

[sociallyresponsiblexenomor]

I love procreate's elipse tool. It's so intuitive. You draw the circle as best you can and just hold the pen down- and it makes the ellipse clean automatically.
I sketch half traditional on paper and half digital, so that I am only cheating half the time haha.

[leonardodomingues]

im gonna get my triceps super yoeked to draw perfect circles

[Axiassart]

Love the concept, looking forward to the next workouts