Let's just say we had a common grip like this or the two finger or the three finger. Any of those will work three finger you still can get your baby finger down to finger and the triangle, three finger Okay, so that being said the pencils up perpendicular. Remember you are developing skills here. I'm not going to be teaching you how to change your drawing. I'm going to show you how to get it to the next level. So here we are, we're going round and round.
Notice I am not lowering the pencil. I'm doing the whole dance on my baby finger or you can use your pawn listen to it. Okay, now all you have to do is feel around about 60% of the things you draw have circles in Now as I lower the pencil, you'll see that I get a fairly decent circle just by lowering the pencil. I'm not trying to draw a circle. I'm just going around, like stirring something. The problem with drawing is we get thinking that we have to be drawing something.
We're or we're just learning how to draw. Now here's what you want to do. Lift a pencil off the paper, lower the pencil. Lift a pencil. Lower the pencil. Drawing is movement.
Movement from one place to another place. With the pencil, lower the pencil. How do I lift the pencil is simple. I just make a very small muscle move and allow my shoulder and arm to relax now why I'm not trying to draw anything, but if you look, I'm still using my knuckle. Go over it, hold your pencil anywhere you want. I prefer this method.
But make sure you got something here so that you can lower the pencil and raise it. And I'm going to up and down and back and forth. Up and down and back and forth are what we call extremes. There's the pencil up straight again. Remember, we're not drawing like this. You can see better this way.
Now these are the drawing exercises when I draw Of course I draw like this. I use my fingers, I use my arm. But right now we're developing an exercise that will totally revolutionize your drawing. I guarantee it. Money Back Guarantee. Just send me a complaint, I'll send you 10 bucks.
Okay, notice, back and forth uses the whole arm, see, put your hand go for a ride, have a little ride on your hand. Then Pitt fingers are not moving. This is arm drawing. We use it all work, don't be, don't get carried away or on. Just stick to the program. Back and forth.
Next is up and down. Now up and down. You want to use a whole arm movement. Think of pushing through something, pushing through, pulling down, pushing through pulling down, pushing through, pulling down, pulling and then gradually just get a rhythm. Feel your arm feel your shoulder, feel everything moving. It really should feel like exercise.
Am I holding my pencil very firmly. Let go run, no. Let go. No. See I am really holding my pencil firmly, and then it'll shake it out. So shaky now it's good.
Now, hold the pencil a little lighter, you'll see the pencil tends to wiggle like this. So it really is a little bit like carving. You've got to, you've got to hold that pencil. Now notice what happens when I take my arm off the paper. See how the line is not quite so controlled. And that's fine.
But if you want control, you need that finger on the on the table. Okay, so when does up and down, become back and forth. Let me show you why we do up and down and back and forth. tournament paper this way. Up and down. Eventually, if you're going back and forth, your seats still got a little finger there.
As I go around, the up and down line happens here, back and forth, up and down. Consequently, all those lines going in any direction are considered within the range of up and down, back and forth. So we've now covered those three movements. Let's go on to the zigzag. I'm going to change to a thicker pencil. Now zigzag Okay, the zig zags same thing.
The nice thing about six x is you can actually get your arm off the paper. Because the zig stops, zag stop Jake stop Zack stop, Zig, stop, zag stop. Remember, you have to stop to get the pointed line. So if you go fast You really have to hold on to your pencil. See exact six x six x six x six sec and use your arm muscles your shoulder to bring my shoulder muscles coming right into this. I'm really gripping that pencil.
So the harder I press the darker the line, I can go light and if you have a tendency to draw very lightly, are geared or I can ask you to consider really gripping and gritting and get some strength into that drying. Get a little exercise. So there's a time for light and there's a time for dark. If you want dark you have to bear down, bearing down on your line gives quality to line. lightness gifts quality to line also contrasting dark and light. Next is the wiggle.
Now the wiggles is an excellent, excellent practice because it's flowing and drawing sometimes we think it's all flowy flowy but sometimes it's zigzaggy some some different strokes. So we start with letter S, just let a few S's flow. Now of course we all draw in one direction we just don't know so draw the S backwards. You might have to think a little bit for that one. frontwards backwards. Now if you want to get good at backwards, just look at the backwards of the backwards one, go this way to that way, the forwards ones go this way, or that way, so backwards and forwards.
Very good exercise, just the essence and here comes the wiggle, the wiggle, pencils not moving and like the zigzag the wiggle form. row four control watch it. I'm not allowed to touch any of the lines. For control row, the wiggle is off the paper. But you can do it on the paper too. If you want to be strong Wiggles, okay, we're almost through the, well let's do the last one dot.dot.com very simple, and the pencils up straight.
And we're dotting there they are the six lines of the art event. The art event is like an alphabet with these six lines and variations of them. We can draw anything round and round. Up and down. Back and forth. zigzag wiggle wiggle dot dot dot 10.
Those are the six. Now what do we do with them?