DRAW CONFIDENT LINE ART! - 10 min ARTIST WORKOUTS

"I don't want the pressure of being perfect."
-My old teacher.

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.

This is great content for beginners artist. Although, I'm curious what drawing software are you using?

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.

Cool tip but proko says not to do short strokes when drawing ?? But you do short strokes to draw this circle

Hello man, can u make a playlist for beginner?

Step one: leave Photoshop, this program has always neglected their artist demographic. It's sad that after all these years, they haven't built any features that help drawing(not painting)
This video was painful to watch. How easy would it be if only they added an oval ruler like many other programs have? Even free art softwares have this!
Traditional artists use tools why shouldn't we?

I want to avoid making my lines scratchy, so this doesn’t help me much unfortunately

Ooh thanks for the the circle advice. I always hear from dolts not to chicken scratch and what not and my painting skills improved significantly couple of years but not so much my inking process due to misleading advice or vague advice
The key is actually just consistency

I’m confused what tablet do you use and which brush on photoshop do you use?

do you mind if I use the circle tool as a guide and sketch over it?

This is literally the only way I have been able to focus on the (frankly rather boring) fundamentals of drawing. Thanks man.

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

Why are you petting the line??? It's a bad habit

These don't seem like confident lines. They look kinda sketchy. When I thing of confident lines I picture a Caricature artist with a marker, drawing toons on the street or boardwalk.

When I try this I just end up with hundreds of lines that aren't connected

muchas gracias

It's not bad for the sketch stage, but what about the other tools? For the lineart you can use the shape tools (draw de circle, rectangle, etc), transformation tools (place the shape or deform it where you need), draw with the shoulder to get more defined lines and erase what you don't need. This helps to work faster and enjoying the process

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!

So if I’m doing this on paper should I be doing my initial sketch with pencil and then pen for the final line or just all pencil?
I’ve been doing this so far with just pencil but have a hard time seeing the final line.

Pick some comic book page in pencil and try to ink that. I think can help. I have priblems about lineart too mutch because of my small tablet. I cant make big moves and i have to zooming because without zoom isnot come right

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.

I was wondering why I didn't get notifications of your videos, then I noticed I wasn't subscribed.

Great exercise. Thank you!

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.

Will i be able to download your easy art videos if i purchase them?

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

this video came at a great time thanks 👍

Should I sketch by using the full motion of my shoulder or just the wrist? Which is more beneficial?

I always have a death grip on pencils, and tablet pens. i actually broke one tablet pen holding it so hard lol

In procreate you just have to hold after drawing the O then it become perfect O

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.

im gonna get my triceps super yoeked to draw perfect circles

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

Do these exercises actually work? Are there results from artists who has previously done these? Line confidence can simply be developed by just drawing from references , why does it have to be circles?

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

Thank you Trent

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.

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

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

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.

nice practice

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

Love the concept, looking forward to the next workouts

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

Love it!

I missed this series