Drawing Practice
Drawing improves when the eye gets a job more specific than ‘make it good.’ A focused constraint gives the hand something useful to learn. Exercises here are brief, inexpensive, and designed to produce evidence of practice rather than frame-ready masterpieces.
Blind Contour Drawing: A 10-Minute Practice Guide
Blind contour drawing means following a subject’s visible edges with your eyes while moving your pencil without looking at the paper.
Negative-Space Drawing: A 15-Minute Beginner Exercise
Negative-space drawing studies the shapes around and between parts of a subject, such as the opening inside a mug handle.