#drawing execises

[phanfictioncatalogue]

Short One-Shots Under 5k Masterlist

A Kiss in the Tower (ao3) - gamingbants

Summary: Who would have expected these two to fall for each other?

A Match A Day in 1965 - nebulous-frog

Summary: Phil works at a diner with a sign that says “Matching soulmates daily since 1965” and he never really understood it until one day, he did. 

Arrows that Pierces the Heart (ao3) - Star4545

Summary: Artist Dan is one of a few people that in a world full of soulmates is incapable of love, but his quirky neighbor Phil shows him that maybe there is love for him.

basically he’s gay (ao3) - waveydnp

Summary: dan posts his video and phil has a lot of feelings about it. they both do.

better days (ao3) - waveydnp

Summary: dan is sick. phil tries to take care of him

Catch your breath (ao3) - Sacirin

Summary: Dan had started working out regularly a year before, because it helped with depression, and consecuently he is in better shape than his boyfriend, who has some trouble catching his breath. So they decide to start doing yoga and running together.

or, some execise, domestic life, and Dan being horny.

comedy = tragedy + time (ao3) - danisnopeonfire

Summary: He’s messy and bright and fantastic, and he is probably the best person to not-survive an apocalypse with.

Crushing On The Bad Boy - doomedhowell

Summary: In which Louise tries to help her best friend out by setting him up with his biggest crush, Phil Lester, the bad boy Quarterback on the football team. They’re total opposites, but Louise thinks Dan has a chance with him. However, things don’t exactly go to plan.

Dream Lover (ao3) - howellesterfics

Summary: Dan moves into his new dorm and he and Phil try out the new bed

get me up get me out (of my mind) (ao3) - dizzy

Summary: Phil's having some issues, and Dan is a super understanding (but secretly still horny) boyfriend.

Let Me Make It Up To You (ao3) - developerdaniel

Summary: A fic about after the 2012 incident and how Dan tries to apologise and make it up to Phil leading to beautiful smut of them making love to rekindle their love.

Maybe Next Year (ao3) - TwistedRocketPower

Summary: The honeymoon phase has to end eventually... Right?

Reasons Why Phil's Body is a Fail (ao3) - dizzy

Summary: Phil didn't exactly draw the best numbers in the gene pool lottery, and here are a few reasons why.

Sad Eyes (ao3) - intoapuddle

Summary: A small dip into VidCon 2012. Dan is scared, and Phil is getting fed up.

Sunshine on the street at the parade (ao3) - ForeverJustAnEmoKidAtHeart

Summary: Dan and Phil meet at a Pride Parade. For dxnhowell on tumblr

take yours, i’ll take mine (ao3) - chickenfree

Summary: Dan doesn’t even remember being conscious of it, the first time. He always climbs over Phil like he’s a jungle gym, always ends up sprawled in his lap or on the floor by his feet or just – wherever he stutters to a stop. It’s not something he thinks through any more.

'tis the damn season (ao3) - pasteldanhowells

Summary: Dan is the coffee shop regular at the shop Phil just started working at. Phil quickly learns that Dan is a bit of a Grinch who refuses to try the shops' holiday drinks, or anything new really. Phil's determined to change Dan's mind about the holiday drinks.

Up And Up (ao3) - watergator (orphan_account)

Summary: It's early 2009. Phil Lester is a 22 year old who is single and has casual sex with one of friends. Then one day a boy named Dan comes along and things begin to change.

watercolours (ao3) - waveydnp

Summary: Dan’s colours are muted today. They’re dulled by something Phil doesn’t understand, but to Phil they’re no less worthy of marvel. He’d marvel over Dan’s colors if they were nothing more than a million shades of grey.

When The Lights Go Down at 3am (ao3) - yiffandquiff

Summary: Dan is used to procrastinating on everything in his life, whether that be doing assignments or getting books from the library. However, one night when he ventures to get his books, a storm hits and knocks the power out in the library, causing him to be alone with a very cute fellow student named Phil

[honestlyvan]

🌿🎀🤲

🌿how does creating make you feel?

Literally exactly the same as exercising. You keep going for those moments of transcendent effort where you feel like you've pushed yourself further than you've ever gone and accomplished something you never thought you had it in you. I keep writing for those 80/20 moments where I hit second wind and make something I've never made before. I get frustrated keeping myself limber, making the same thing over and over, which... well, tbh, that's why I'm so out of practice drawing and animating. Exactly the same as execising.

🎀give yourself a compliment about your own writing

I am godtier at characterisation. Arch and subtle. I just am. My character voices are banger across the board. It's the one thing I get complimented on, it's the thing people ask me to give feedback on, and it's the one thing I truly have confidence in. Thank frog I choose to write fanfic XD

🤲what do YOU get out of writing?

I... don't know. I kinda just do it habitually. "Possessed by an idea that is arguing with you" sums it up, I'm usually content letting stuff spin lazily in my head, if it's something I absolutely have to get down into words then it's a goddamn demon and I am committing an exorcism.

[ahumbleprofessor]

I’m back! This time with a great video a friend sent me of a fabulous drawing exercise. This artist crumples up a piece of paper and then tries to turn the shadow of that crumple into a portrait! I’m gonna give it a shot myself sometime later today, and you might wanna give it a shot too since it looks fun. 

As an update as to what I’ve been up to, I spent my summer teaching art at a summer camp. It was a ton of fun, but completely stole my energy so I haven’t had much time to make posts. 

I’m gonna see if I can get back in the swing of things, however, so expect more great posts about art soon! 

[numptypylon]

Primal Light 5: Ocean, part a series of 7 rayllum kisses, where I practice lighting and atmosphere, using the primal sources as light sources.

For Ocean, I wanted like a mellow, floaty vibe and a feeling of depth. I imagine there’s a Tidebound spell that lets you breathe underwater, and this is a kind of therapeutic execise for Rayla’s fear of water, trying to relax and find beauty in the elements that scare her.

Other drawing in the series are in the tag ‘primal light’

[hithereimusinghogwartsmystery]

Going through my sketch book finding some old drawings and execises

[loriglessner]

In the first part of my 2018 Resolutions post I encouraged you to draw at least 15-30 minutes a day and as a result of this prompt, I received many requests for suggestions on how to get started. Even if you think you can’t draw, think you don’t know how or just stubbornly refuse, these 5 exercises will help. But before I discuss the How, I would like to discuss the What and Why I feel you must draw everyday.

The What…let’s take the word ‘drawing’ out of this article for now because it tends to scare people. When I’m teaching, I use the words drawing and mark-making interchangeably because for my purposes they are the same thing with only very slight differences. Think of it this way…a mark communicates a word and a drawing expands that word into a sentence…a poem…a sonnet. As artists, whatever we do in the course of making work begins as a mark on a surface made by one human to be interpreted by another in an effort to communicate. Mark making is expressive, gestural, emotive and works of art that contain such marks are the ones I will cross the room to view-they literally speak to me without words, they communicate. No matter what kind of work you make or in what medium, understanding your mark, what it is and how to make it, will make you a better communicator through that work.

The Why…Critic Lance Esplund writes, “Line is a rich metaphor for the artist. It denotes not only boundary, edge or contour, but is an agent for location, energy, and growth. It is literally movement and change – life itself.” This quote speaks to lines specifically, but for the purposes of this article, we’ll think of marks and lines as one in the same. The mark adds the lifeblood to the work that sets it apart from anyone else’s. Your personal mark or gesture is literally as unique as your signature and practicing making marks everyday is the only way to find that mark. As I mention in my Resolutions post, when you practice moving those parts of your body and brain required to make a drawing, everything else in your art making process flows much more smoothly. How many times have you entered the studio cold and stiff from not working and end up puttering around wasting time? Or picked up a paintbrush, but just couldn’t make the paint say what you wanted? The more marks you make and the more frequently you make them, they become indelibly written on your brain, your movements in the studio become more practiced and you will approach the work with confidence and knowing. I’m not saying that drawing everyday will rid you of all the struggles us artists face in the studio, but I absolutely guarantee that it will get you moving faster and in the right direction toward your goals.

The How…Now for the fun part. Your daily drawings can be made with any media on any substrate and inspired by any subject. I like to give myself ‘projects’ in which I work on a series of drawings inspired by one thing with the same media for one month. This offers me a chance to work out every angle of a certain subject and/or experiment with new media. At the end of the month, I also have a series of drawings that may be strong enough to show. Visit this post to read about one of these drawing series’ of mine. You can choose to work with monthly projects or you can draw something different everyday, the point is to make marks daily for 15-30 minutes. For those of you who think you’re too busy to spare this time, I suggest in my resolutions post that you always have a sketchbook and drawing tools with you in your bag because you may have more time than you think…on the bus/train, waiting at the doctors office, waiting in line at the food store. It’s almost depressing how much time we spend waiting so why not do something constructive while you’re at it. Last, don’t forget to set that timer! I’m a stickler about setting the timer for daily exercises like this and I explain a bit about why in this post. In a near future post I’ll talk about restrictions and why they are so important in art making. For now, understand that the timer will create a time-space for you to focus only on what you’re doing. For that short time, you don’t have to think about or do anything else but that draw.

The following drawing ideas are tried and true-a few have been used in art schools for centuries and a few I’ve modified and used over and over in my workshops. Once you start, your creative brain will begin to flow with many of your own ideas. At the end of this article I share some drawings from my workshop participants as well as some other artist’s works whose marks and processes I find inspiring. If you see your drawing below, let me know and I’ll add your name!

The Ideas

Blind Contour Drawings If you went to art school, you probably went blind making blind contour drawings-they are used so much as a learning tool and that is because they are so helpful. Start by staring at an object in front of you for one minute. Then close your eyes and imagine the object in your minds eye…try to see its color, its form, its texture, it’s scale. Then open your eyes and look at the object in front of you. How does it look? Try to spend two minutes (or longer) just looking at the object, examining it in great detail. Then close your eyes and draw it continuously, keeping your eyes closed for a full two minutes. Don’t lift the pencil or open your eyes until your full two minutes are up. If you ‘finish’ drawing your object under two minutes just draw it again. If you find you can’t help yourself from cheating, wear a blindfold. Do this with the same object over and over, or try different objects in order to fill your 15-30 minutes. Another variation is to begin with the blind contour and then with your eyes open, ‘connect’ the sketchy lines you drew to make a new drawing.

Opposites Make drawings in pairs which express opposite adjectives. For example, make a drawing which is noisy in as many ways as possible – your pencil should make a lot of noise as it vigorously scribbles and scratches across the page, and the finished drawing should be noisy in the way in which it communicates. Then take a breath and make a very quiet drawing. Your pencil should hardly touch the paper (imagine it’s the tip of a feather). Hold your pencil far away from the drawing end so you cannot apply too much pressure. Hush your pencil as you draw, and let the end result be a very shy drawing. Enjoy the differences between the two drawings – let your ideas bounce off each other. Push yourself to extremes of noisy and quiet.

Words Choose 5 words randomly from the dictionary and either write them at the top of the page or begin with a drawing of the word itself. I use Design Language by Tim McCreight in my workshops because the words in it lend themselves to visual inspiration. Working on the same paper, spend one-2 minutes interpreting each word with marks. Let each word’s marks intertwine and overlap. Take this drawing a step further and add more marks, collage or stitch to make it a cohesive drawing.

Music This idea comes from one of my favorite artists, Wassily Kandinsky, who believed that colors and marks in paintings created visual ‘chords’ which resonated in the viewer. A must read for any artist is Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Kandinsky in which he writes in depth about the essence of expressionism in painting. Create a playlist of 30 seconds of 20 different songs ranging in tempo, style, genre, etc. Using a large piece of paper on the floor or taped to the wall (must be positioned so that you can use your body expressively) and gather 5 different drawing tools near you so you can switch if you’d like. Turn on your playlist so the songs play successively with only 3-5 seconds between each. Respond to each song with marks and allow the marks to overlap and intertwine. At the end of the playlist, the drawing will likely look like a bunch of scribbles, so what you want to do next is isolate certain areas to use for inspiration. Cut a rectangle out of a piece of paper and float this frame over the drawing. As you do this, you’ll find so many great ideas for marks that you can trace and use in paintings. Another variation is cut up your large drawing and scatter the cut outs onto another large piece of paper. Experiment with with creating new distances between the cut outs, turn them upside down or rip them in half. Begin drawing new elements and shapes in between the old ones to create a new drawing. Forget your original drawing and think about new meanings which might be created, think about how the new drawing might be interpreted.

Response This is my personal favorite method to begin a drawing and I have completed many series this way. ‘Response Drawing’ is a term I coined in one of my workshops and it just stuck. Response drawings are basically just as the words describe… it is a response to marks either you or someone else made intentionally, accidentally or found. Responding to marks that are not yours encourages you to expand your mark making vocabulary by making marks you aren’t normally inclined to make. There are many ways to begin a project like this but the basic premise is to begin with some kind of mark on a substrate-it could be a splash, a pour of paint, a burn, a footprint,  rust print, transfer print, a mistake. It could be something you found in the trash, a folded or cut piece of paper, crushed pencil shavings, anything! It could be a project between you and a friend in which one of you makes a mark and the other responds. This actually has a name -Exquisite Corpse- a term and game invented by surrealist creatives. I’ll be writing a more in depth post about Exquisite Corpse, but in the meantime you read about and see some examples of them here. However your first mark is generated, the next step is simply to respond to it in any way you want. The image at the top of this page is from a series of drawings from 2005 called ‘Flesh’ in which I started with tracing paper that had been burned and splashed with watercolor and I then responded with organic forms drawn in graphite and colored pencil. See more from this series in the images below.

If this post was helpful to you, please let me know, I invite your comments questions and suggestions in the comments section now located in the upper left sidebar of this post.

In my next post, I’ll share with you my acrylic/gouache series of layered drawings. I’ll discuss my approach and process for these drawings and how this whole series began by drawing only 15 minutes a day.

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Image Links (read left to right from top row)

Workshop student exquisite corpse.

Lorraine Glessner Flesh series response drawing.

Jeri Ledbetter, artist, see her work here and here.

Lorraine Glessner, found ledger sketchbook response drawing.

Workshop student exquisite corpse.

Emma McNally makes drawings responding to unlikely sounds like white noise and city sounds. See her work here.

James Watkinson responds to aged paper and stains of old book covers with detailed narrative drawings. See his work here.

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud’s experiments with a china marker, making as many different marks as she can. See her work here.

Workshop student music response drawing.

Workshop student scattered elements response drawing.

Workshop student music response drawing.

Workshop student music response drawing. I love how the strong shadows and deep wrinkles of the paper contribute to the drama of this drawing.

Lorraine Glessner Flesh series response drawing.

Workshop student found object mark response drawing.

Workshop student music response drawing.

Workshop student architectural sketch response drawing.

Lorraine Glessner Flesh series response drawing.

Workshop student mixed media drawings collage.

Workshop student mixed media drawings collage.

Workshop student found object mark response drawing.

Workshop student mixed media drawings collage.

Workshop student scattered elements response drawing.

  Are you an artist who hates to draw? Making daily marks for 15-30 minutes a day will improve your creative work flow not only in the studio, but in all aspects of your life. These 5 easy exercises will help you get that pencil moving! In the first part of my 2018 Resolutions post I encouraged you to draw at least 15-30 minutes a day and as a result of this prompt, I received many requests for suggestions on how to get started.

[higorbatistailustra]

O exercício da última aula na @quantaacademiadeartes era fazer uma pintura monocromática, baseada nos ensinamentos em sala. Foi meu primeiro contato "oficial" com pintura tradicional e apesar da sujeira e tropeços no processo, gostei bastante de brincar com a Guache. Decidi refazer o exercício, mas dessa vez transferindo o processo do tradicional para o digital! Foi só alegria! Sem sujeira... E ao invés de 2 hrs que demorei no tradicional, resolvi em 50 minutos no digital. As pinturas vc conferem agora! #painting #guache #digitalpainting #execise #study #estudos #ilustration #ilustração #drawing #desenho #vampire #noir

[mellamoteya]

Srly, what's wrong with my pinterest? All I want to see is images, drawings of my fave. manhwas and cute drawings BUT WHY ARE YOU SHOWING ME THOSE EXECISE ROUTINE AND PROPER DIET SHITZ!?!?!!!!? I know I needed those, but not now. NOT KNOW!! I'm still lazy as fuck and I don't need diet. Who needs diet when I'm skinny as fuck that I look like a walking bones.

[diamondwolfart]

Hey Diamond I'm not sure if you ever do this but I was wondering if you could critique my artwork. With me just starting I'm always looking to improve, but with I have yet to have anyone really say anything, and I think that's what I need to get better. If you don't I completely understand,. Just wanted to give it a shot. ;]

Hmm, first of all you need to start with the basics, anatomy, compositon, colors, shadows etc. You can read about them in tutorials or books. Once you have a base of them, you can start practicing with drawings. I, for example, learned everytging I know from trial and error on a period of almost 4 years. I started with a mouse and Photoshop, got my tablet, moved to SAI and continued from there. I tried layer modes, different brushes and techniques, until I found what fits for me. Since you are a begginer, there are many things I can critique, but they can be corrected in time and with practice, everyyone does them in the beggining, I did too! A really good and useful tipmis to try and draw every day. No matter how small or simple it is, draw it. It will form your hand and imaginatios, as well as execising art in general. Also study other artist’s works, see how they did it, their ways of dealing with certain elements, light, shadow, compositon etc. Art is a very broad subject and you will have a lot to cover and leart, but i bet if you continue to do so you will learn a lot in the future!

And another important tip, whatever style of drawing you choose, either being realistic or cartoony, you have to learn the basics first. If you want to simplify a  body and make a cartoon character, you need to know how muscles and joints work in real life, then simplify them.

[fei-blog]

Today I decided to train myself and practice drawing with some execises! Here I take random and quick form and try to create cool characters :) . . If you have any advice or ideas of exercices, dont hesitate to share them with me! . . #wip #charadesign #conceptart #practice #drawing #sketch #fei

[jasminechoutszyu]

Portfolio Crit

28/Mar/2019

Some good point:

Do not start at drawing execise, put some images let audience feel amazing.

When you take pictures of your book cover or sketchbook, you can show your hand areflipping a book.

Only one image in the first page.

30pt of text is too big.

No need to add text with each image.

Too many images in the same page, one to three are enough.

Let each page make sense, connecting them, even make a story.

Be more confident, show the pictures bigger.

I try to make a new portfolio with the suggestion.

Before

After

[kochopuszek]

Lately I was so busy that i haven't posted in a while. Some time ago I did this little execise that helps with coloring and shadows. Do you see any improvements (first is this golden egg, last rainbow crystal)? ____ Ostatnio żyje w wielkim młynie, dlatego nie postowałam nic przez dłuższą chwile. Jakiś czas temu zrobiłam sobie ćwiczenie na kolorowanie i cieniowanie. Zaczęłam od złotego jaja, a skończyłam na tęczowym krysztale. Widać tam jakąś poprawę? ____ #crystal #arted #coloring #learning #arteducation #drawing #digitalart #digitalpainting #draw #madewithwacom #Photoshop #learnnewthings #shadows #lightning http://ift.tt/2vknPrp

[flawedconqueror]

i found myself getting emotional again watching Spirited Away. I can’t help but feel like Chihiro. I wish my brother was a river spirit. But as this year draws to a close, there’s many things to be grateful for:

Cooking

Braiding

Authentic friendships

Reconnecting with old ones

Confidence

God has been good in the midst of tragedy

it’s awfully lonesome, and i ache, literally ache for my brother. But, staying indoors won’t do anything, so I will get 

Grateful for real, authentic friends:

Jan

Gally et al. 

Elena

Daniella

Jessica (sorry I messed it up)

Marysa

Odinga

2019, A YEAR OF HEALING, GROWTH AND WISDOM

My magnum opus will be my brother’s book, spirtiutally sewn together, it might take years to make but I’m up for it...

Spiritually:

Read and pray more

Forgive and pray for those

Socially:

Engage with old friends

Have no pretences in reconnecting

Travel:

Ghana (maybe)

Japan

Paris

Flordia

Physically:

Execise

Art:

Draw more original

Ghana:

Cook Ghanian food

Learn twi

Job:

A job strictly about writing, no admin, no numbers, creative and digital things only

Be organized, remain budget focused, read more, less gram, social media

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