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Five Ways to Practise Sketching

Build a sketching habit with short exercises in lines, shapes, light and observation.

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Drawing improves through careful looking and repeated practice. Try these five short exercises without worrying about perfection.

Five exercises

  1. Draw ten straight and curved lines slowly.
  2. Fill a page with circles and cubes.
  3. Make a five-step scale from light to dark.
  4. Sketch an everyday object from observation.
  5. Draw the same object again after looking at its shadows.

Compare your attempts to see what you noticed the second time.

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