Whats the point of Peter Han's exercise? Draw a line, go

to loosen up, kickstart your muscle memory, etc

so you can make confident strokes

Builds muscle memory.

>>2911348
ill loosen your butthole

but muscles will remember just this stuff. subjects dont consist only of straights, circles, elipses and these specific arcs.

>>2911381
All subjects are made of basic shapes i.e cylinders, cubes, cones, spheres,

Those shapes are made from ellipses and straight lines which if you can't draw right, result in ugly, inaccurate shapes which in turn lead to bad drawings.

These exercises also help build up hand-eye co-ordination. It doesn't matter how accurate of an eye you have or your knowledge of a subject. If you can't get your hand to do what you want it to, you'll have bad drawings

>>2911415
Thanks. He said it took him a year to grasp it. I mean holy fuck.

>>2911417
yeah but he probably did this along his other stuff

>>2911417

Hand eye coordination is kind of a big deal when it comes to drawing

>>2911417

He's probably not far off, but don't take that to mean "grind lines and ellipses and nothing else for a year"

You'll get bored and you'll be very disappointed to find the exercises didn't magically mean you knew how to draw anything you want. Learning how to make bricks doesn't magically make you an architect. Learn it alongside other fundamental practice.

>>2911899
So would using these exercises as warmup be good for this?

>>2911929

Certainly.

Doing other stuff still grinds the same skills, but being confident you can nail a straight line or an ellipse does wonders for line confidence. Lots of artists, especially early on, chicken-scratch or have wobbly lines because they don't feel like they can get their pencil/pen from A to B in one motion, which is what these exercises help develop. They're definitely a worthwhile exercise, but it teaches you good mark-making and control, and that's all it teaches it.

>8 straight lines
>it just gets caught in the groove you made in the first line and you learn nothing

>>2911946
You learn that you shouldn't fuck up the first time, that's for fucking sure. Measure 8 times, strike once.

>>2911946
that's why you use a felt tip pen and don't press hard, silly.

>>2911946
Use ghosting, Luke. Hover your pen above the line. Hover it again. And again. Until you feel that it is straight. Than draw without skipping a beat. Rinse and repeat.

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>he only did three lines of different lengths and drew over them

nigga what kind of retard are you you need to fill that page up with fucking lines I am talking about busting a fucking nut and BLOWING all over that paper the foundation for your artistic future

if you aren't doing at least 40 straight lines, 15 odd lines, and 200 circles/ellipses a day you are not going to fucking make it

>>2912143
>doing at least 40 straight lines, 15 odd lines, and 200 circles/ellipses a day
>tfw did this and it completely kills your shoulder for the next coming weeks
Especially the ellipses.

>>2912147
Start with less lines, idiot. Then increase their number.

Also, Im doin it with fountain pen. I have staedtlers pigment liners too but I dont know whats wrong with them, they dont make consistent line, like they almost dry. My guess would be as long as Im using ink its fine?

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>>2912147
how the fuck does this kill your shoulder are you a skellington mode 4chan shitposter

are you sure you're using your arm right? you're not like jamming the pen into your shoulder and then trying to tackle a piece of paper on the wall are you?

>>2912903
I'm not weak like other people who don't seriously do them. They just think they can do it quickly in 30 minutes and that it's all fine.

It actually requires intention to override your muscle memory. You think I actually do the amount that anon said? I do triple that and over the span of hours a day.

If you ain't serious about this, you ain't gonna make it.

>exercise

good now that you have warmed up apply it to your drawing

...oh wait

>>2911361
lol good luck white boi

Only someone who is too lazy to do the work would be questioning such a thing. Try using your fucking brain for once to figure out why you might want to practice a muscle movement you'll need to be using a lot, accurately for sketching.

>>2913409
>muscle movement
Ah yes, as opposed to fat movement, which you should of course train separately, so as not to cause muscle confusion.

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>>2913374
>doing things that are not intended

you must be some form of fresh faggot attention whore, fuck off with your fantasies and come back when you have shit to show instead of trying to shitpost /ic/ to death

>>2913430

I can't tell if this is bait or you're genuinely retarded. If you're just too lazy to do what you gotta do to git gud, then fuck off. No one is making you do it.