DRAW CONFIDENT LINE ART! - 10 min ARTIST WORKOUTS

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These artist workouts only take 10 minutes and if you continue to practice them every day you will improve your drawing skills. If you want to learn to draw confident line art, then this is the place! I also have several other artist workout videos that you can watch to improve your art skills in no time! It only takes a few minutes a day to practice and improve at drawing and painting!
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World Of Twilight Monk Vol 1 (2019) Art Book
The Man and the Moonken (2019) - Illustrated Novella
The Beast of Tuksa (2018) - Illustrated Novella
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[@TheTrickyDragon]

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.

[@JoyZoneYT]

I used draw a box's website for months. It helped. A lot. It doesn't go just for circles, but for straight lines, C curves, S curves... Perspective is a good part of it too. It is losely based on Peter Han's dynamic sketching course. Part one is free on youtube.

[@vishtem33]

True, but it's easy to become confused about what kind of motion you are using if you are not paying particular attention. Working at a larger scale (a3, a2..) makes any use of fiddly motions more obvious IME.

[@kemonopriestess]

I also learnt to train my elbow and arm for strokes, watching this guide kind of makes me feel strange. Maybe because of conflicting ideas. Probably. Though yeah, its nice to see somebody else try a different way.

[@patriciosoler3861]

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

[@honcianoportfolio]

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.

[@hibicotv435]

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.

[@shottyfins]

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.

[@TrentKaniuga]

Thanks! I have a few more planned as bonus videos here on my channel.

[@paoprika965]

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

[@AzureSymbiote]

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

[@rftm]

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

[@cloudy7971]

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

[@krzysztofmathews738]

Great exercise. Thank you!

[@sociallyresponsiblexenomor7608]

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.

[@jordanmatthew6315]

Correct, work smarter not harder, the system has tools so we need to use them lol.

[@takaramaka1024]

In fact, Photoshop is not specialized software for drawing. Nowadays, there are many other software that are easier to use for drawing.

[@Philtomato]

Love it!

[@dinoblaster736]

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.

[@ashleysloan6626]

Thank you Trent

[@blueink2526]

this video came at a great time thanks 👍

[@WishMish15]

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.

[@SketchPLAY1]

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

[@therealswitt4554]

I completely forgot that the 1st 2 minutes were about showing off the practice and not actually participating, but got 5 circles finished in the time it took for this video to finish. I love your style of video and think this will help in contrast to my previous methods of practice.

[@NakulaDas]

Thank you so much!

[@pousthemoco]

nice practice

[@leonardodomingues9010]

im gonna get my triceps super yoeked to draw perfect circles

[@SpaceCookie7]

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!

[@lc3]

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

[@TrentKaniuga]

go for it! Im sure you'll do your own thing with it.

[@lc3]

@@TrentKaniuga thanks!!

[@Semnome-sv7kb]

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

[@TrentKaniuga]

There is a playlist already: kzbin.info/aero/PL3oZQ1O_TlKevTA1EEDj-RZEuTW1UYZJE

[@Semnome-sv7kb]

@@TrentKaniuga Thanks! I just saved the playlist in my favourites to practice later.

[@andrescontreras3901]

muchas gracias

[@Axiassart]

Love the concept, looking forward to the next workouts

[@TrentKaniuga]

Thanks! Theres 5 already up on youtube. check the pinned comment for the playlist.

[@mrpizzacat8273]

I missed this series

[@TrentKaniuga]

moar on the way!

[@travishancock9120]

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

[@FireboltJB]

I finally got tapered stokes. It takes time to do it. It took me 15 days. Now I have line confidence. It just started happening. I was like why are my lines going from thin to thick to thin. That is tapering.

[@RemiTaiyung]

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

[@yoshaosaxofonista]

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

[@dasnas2843]

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

[@Goblin-King-]

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

[@fuzzydragons]

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

[@christophergarcia9022]

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

[@senjabiru1461]

Hello man, can u make a playlist for beginner?

[@dimaborisov3598]

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

[@Igami_No_Io]

Iirc, I was told that hatching or continuing the line that you started and line it again and again is a bad thing. But now it says here that I should try that. I wonder how this is supposed to be.

[@takaramaka1024]

It's really challenging when I can't see the brush size. I usually zoom in to paint. That makes it easie

[@TrentKaniuga]

Here's the playlist for more artist workouts : kzbin.info/aero/PL3oZQ1O_TlKevTA1EEDj-RZEuTW1UYZJE

[@captinBattleship]

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.

[@pikachufan25]

Your Choice TBH: but i Recommend all Pencil Sounds like you are Doing too much force into your Pen/Pencil. Use a Very Light Stoke, (Soo light that you can Barely See it), you should be Able to easily Erase it and leave no Marks, if you leave Big Marks, you apply too much force, try applying less force next time you do this... I am not a Professional, im just a person that loves studying.... hope it helps you and/or anybody that reads this! Good Luck!.

[@apricotmadness4850]

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

[@WishMish15]

I think practicing all of it is important, I feel like I end up using all of it in a drawing. The shoulder to start out loosely sketching large shapes and then the wrist for finer details. I think people usually say to focus more on the shoulder though because you can fall into the trap of only using your wrist and drawing really small and stiff.

[@pauljerome01]

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

[@brunosantos3245]

I thinl is mutch easier make lineart on pen displays. I have a pen tablet without screen and its an hell to make lines. I have to do a lot of zoom to do it right

[@wudly9195]

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

[@TrentKaniuga]

Well, Proko is wrong!

[@wudly9195]

@@TrentKaniuga lol I think he’s wrong too because a lot of artists do short strokes . But it’s good to hear it from a pro like you

[@finestcustard5647]

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

[@julioperonerocholl9364]

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

[@FrozenPrimordial]

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?

[@TrentKaniuga]

It doesnt have to be circles. Just as there are many exercises you can do to build chest muscles, there are many exercises to draw more confident lines. The circle is perfect to practice because it has difficult angles.

[@FrozenPrimordial]

@@TrentKaniuga That makes sense, thanks.

[@Graddg]

@@FrozenPrimordial bruh

[@lactate]

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

[@dinoblaster736]

0:23 random image of beaker? lmao

[@ekamartandcrafts1555]

I left no space on my page, it's filled with all circles

[@ronaldpagar6513]

Excuse me but it doesn't have to be perfect right?

[@Cc-oj8ev]

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

[@3ngan498]

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

[@sat8141]

i was thinking the same thing... i thought good lineart was done with very few confident strokes

[@pauljerome01]

Take into account this guy is a professional. Everyone interpretation and demonstration can be vastly different from each other. Someone might understand it, like someone who has been drawing for 2~3 and understood a concept of what he is actually trying to show then a guy who started at complete 0 trying to not pet the line. What I interpret this video. How can be done with a larger and more efficient scale? That's where line confidence and distance of your strokes can be made. To increase less lines being added. I've skipped the petting the line stuff and only learned how to draw in one stroke of a circle and I stil dont know how to draw

[@TaTa-xd5yt]

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?

[@fluttzkrieg4392]

I agree as I switched from PS to CSP, but it's simply good practice as an artist to be able to at least draw a decent circle without software assistance.

[@TaTa-xd5yt]

@@fluttzkrieg4392 Of course I agree with your last part. However It is unprofessional for example if you want to print something with bold and graphic look, it has to be very clean.

[@jameskellam2980]

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.

[@blackjew6827]

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