Drawing Exercises Guaranteed to Improve Your Drawing Skills

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In this drawing lesson, we explore 8 drawing exercises guaranteed to improve your drawing skills. The basics of each drawing exercise is discussed along with the potential benefits. We cover continuous line drawing, cross contour line drawing, upside down drawing, value studies, the square of patience, timed drawings, gesture drawing, and drawing on black paper.
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[@azalea1404]

I have been a member of The Virtual Instructor for about six months and it is the best art achool I have ever attended - and I have attended several. I warmly recommend Matt's Art Academy.

[@SUGAR_XYLER]

No, I'll stay with Silvie Mahdal. She's ranked #1

[@lilybay1]

Silvia seems to be only focused on people. I like how he includes more like still life, animals etc.

[@leomiguelsalinas]

Fantastic video Matt! Thanks for the exercises!

[@Liz-sy7iu]

Thanks Matt. Very informative as usual and a very timely reminder. Take care.

[@deborahburns9126]

These are great practice tips!!! Thank you!!!

[@sz4963]

Love these ideas! Thanks 🙏

[@justinwebb3117]

Absolutely fascinating! ❤

[@brendaashton6428]

Fantastic! So helpful and inspiring. I can't wait to get started using these exercises. Thanks Matt!

[@eileenlichtenfeld5370]

That was an excellent refresher! thanks

[@jL-pf1go]

this is the video ive been waiting for. thank you!,!!!

[@murtirahayu1277]

Thank you for the great tips!

[@AmNhacThienNhien]

It 's a value lesson. Thank you for teaching us this lesson.

[@DottieStanley]

Excellent information and sketches! Thanks for sharing your talents with us!

[@barbarahenn-pander5872]

Amazing, organized, and to the point! Learned the value of value!! 😁

[@davidsiquiero9670]

Gracias a ti maestro, por compartir tu sabiduría!!!

[@brightsky5586]

Great exercises!! Thank you!!

[@JAsisterti]

Great tips as always!

[@clarauribe2357]

Thank you very much. Very good lesson.

[@jfbouverat]

The best advices I received in such short period of time. Thank you.

[@colinadevivero]

You are terrific! Keep up your good work 🎉

[@sylhayes8152]

Absolutely fantastic

[@miryamgarrote8330]

Great video!! Thank you!! Exactly the tips and help I was looking for! I love the value study excercise and drawing on a black surface tips!

[@scholarthefuture7284]

Surely will try all this soon!❤

[@patriciabrowning5741]

Thanks for the great information

[@anaghachonkar6506]

Thank you for sharing the valuable information with us

[@terrrebell]

Awesome advice for me. Thank You.

[@BarBaraWhorleyCrawfordESS]

Excellent. Love your teaching style❤

[@Cariena66]

Dear Matt, the minute you mentioned some people don't know HOW TO PRACTICE you just caught me. I didn't realize why I would find myself stucked whyle practicing. Overthinking is one of my challenges. Thank you so much for this reminder along with these great exercises in a nutshell. The membership program is amazing and worth subscribing. Buddy

[@elsle4689]

Thank you for the information

[@centurionstrengthandfitnes3694]

This was GREAT! Subbed.

[@sparkleevanagy]

Thank you for imparting knowledge. We call people like you “Guru” in India 🙏🏻

[@manthasagittarius1]

These are excellent ways of breaking free of ordinary, every day cognition or perception. The upside down thing felt like walking on another planet! Breaking down gradations of value to two, three, then all was an eye opener too. Great tutorial.

[@jayfogelman]

Outstanding.

[@juliebelmont4079]

Thank you so very much. This video was super informative. You're a great instructor. I look forward to watching and learning more from your videos.

[@user-be2yl5uh7g]

Excellent video. Thank you.

[@steveis33]

Patience and perseverance as well👍

[@sankarnarayanan5514]

Great and useful excercise

[@ourartandcraft1M]

Really impressive drawing with tutorials ❤❤❤❤

[@alisyed7179]

Very helpful lesson for anyone interested in drawing. Thanks

[@lindasplaylist100]

Much thanks!

[@gummymu]

thank you so much this is really really helpful lesson

[@shyammalla111]

Useful!

[@spbv1961]

Thanks 🤩

[@Ammon6]

Very useful tips.

[@eikiue]

Thanks for this sir. It really helps a lot. At first, I thought drawing boxes is the most essential.

[@abdool4374]

The kindest artist I ever knew ❤

[@moderatorrainbow7117]

Thank You Thank You Thank You I believe this will help me bunches

[@DB_in_AZ]

Thx so much for these lessons. ❤

[@jumanas4012]

thank you 😊

[@ellywentwest]

this was so, so helpful! thanks so much, from a beginning artist.

[@valeriegehling4358]

Really informative. I’ll try & practice some methods that you advise. I enjoy watching you draw & sketch, would like to draw like you do. Very clever! Thanks

[@pjhall2050]

Thanks!

[@robertclarkson6064]

Thank you 👍👍👍

[@NightStarGamer]

Really great tips.
Some of which I knew from the book Drawing from the right side of the brain. But once i did the lesson in the book, i stopped doing them.
Made me realize that going back and redoing exercises and stuff is really important.

[@Poisonedblade]

These are really good exercises for intermediates!

[@sablecreative]

Brilliant vid, thank you 🙌

[@thevirtualinstructor]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@crisalidathomassie1811]

Thanks so much for this video. I truly appreciate for all the tutorials you provide to help us. These exercises are wonderful and definitely worth to try. I wish you all the best for 2024 and more. Blessings and take care.

[@goffjmorgan]

Thank you…. and I thought I needed talent…. 🤗

[@AFAskygoddess]

What an amazing lesson in less ten minutes that will last an artist a lifetime. ❤

[@ourartandcraft1M]

Fantastic ❤❤❤

[@marywilliams9709]

Excellent -thank you!

[@thevirtualinstructor]

Glad it was helpful!

[@jerrifreeman7034]

Very helpful

[@seenuz1]

Good 1 👌

[@rosemorales1034]

Very nice, thank you very much, quite a gentleman

[@veronicapratt7961]

Thanks

[@rekhathakore9366]

Very informative

[@user-hg9gb1rs8l]

Thanks for sharing your drawing skills. I enjoyed this because as I’m learning to use color pencils, your skills helps me to use them from all angles. I now understand the use of improving my skills.❤

[@suzishapiro9867]

Concise and useful. Thanks. Moving background on some sections made it difficult to attend to the lesson.

[@TravelMaximizer]

Excellent video

[@user-xy2qh8tg1v]

Thanks 🙏 U UNREAL💞

[@bryanodriscoll2123]

Impressive stuff. The key word, of course, is practice. Since I'm an absolute beginner the level of skill shown here is far beyond me but it's useful guidance for what most of us would like to attain.

[@parisgolec4158]

Thanks for great content. I have received your newsletters for some time . I have liked and subscribed. Hoping to get more drawing in this season.

[@thevirtualinstructor]

Awesome, thank you!

[@juancebollero4069]

Great video. A good idea would be to pick your favorite 6 tips, list them in the back cover of your sketchbook, and throw a dice to choose the exercise to do at the moment. Of course you can get one the fancy 10-sided dice if you can’t narrow down the list. Anyway, I appreciate the lesson. Thank you very much!

[@JamesArnault-ls3ce]

I can learn well drawing lessons from you than others.😌😌😌❤️❤️❤️ Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩

[@nickrodis6862]

Salamat po

[@daisyswonderland8644]

Thanks Great tips I remember how I draw realistic in the past. I always draw in my style now maybe I can start practice again with this with watercolor that I like the most of all medium

[@teressacooks7928]

Thank you for explaining HOW to practice. Now I have a use for the black paper I purchased a year ago! 🤣

[@purplebutterfly412]

Touché. Although my purchase was a few years ago. LoL.

[@jillhuhn1129]

Thanks Matt, long time no see! :D

[@nosheenansari450]

Thank You so much. I watch every video of yours. from 🇵🇰

[@darlasands8467]

I am so far from these skills but appreciate the tutorial. For now, the first exercise is where I'll stay. lol Blessings to you and your students.

[@JGalegria]

What's so complicated or advanced about cross contour lines? Just choose a simple object and practice. Upside down drawing isn't advanced either, it's just about drawing shapes, negative and positive. If you want to understand values just take a photo on a digital camera of a scene or still life you'd love to use as a reference, and then turn down the colour saturation.

[@darlasands8467]

Thanks for the kind advice.@@JGalegria

[@mariotscott-kiwi]

Thanks, as I am new to drawing😊

[@thevirtualinstructor]

You're very welcome!

[@jooryart]

I love you're work so much
You have great talent, man❤❤
انا احب ماتقوم به لديك موهبة عظيمة ياصديقي حقاً انت تثير اعجابي بما تقوم به ❤
تحياتي لك من السعودية 🇸🇦❤️❤️❤️

[@janneostlund6051]

Studing the secrets of drawing and you disturbed me with this... tank you for a nice break. Now back to studies.

[@thevirtualinstructor]

Haha! Awesome!

[@sindollface]

Thank you. Think this will help. Do u recommend that method of drawing faces from a box? It seems so time consuming, but I’m struggling with things out of proportion in a way I didn’t when I was younger. Wish I never put the pencil down!

[@4qigong]

Loved the presentation but found the moving crinkle background in some of the modules very distracting. Thanks for sharing these practical tips.

[@kerrylaw100]

Absolutely brilliant… wish you lived in New Zealand 🇳🇿 then I could afford your courses 😢❤

[@JGalegria]

These drawing lessons are taught in any introductory drawing course or art and design certificate. He didn't come up with these approaches.

[@charmainekaldwell8481]

Had my highschool art teachers explained the fundamentals of drawing as well as you just did I'd be farther along as an artist.

[@mehmetyhallac]

I was expecting spheres and boxes before watching this video. I was wrong , these tips are great.

[@stefespag2888]

Thank you, very informative and helpful. Unfortunately the moving background made it a little uncomfortable on the eyes. But apart from that, great!🎉

[@henriquejanuario881]

Thanks for the class! How is Ashley?

[@thevirtualinstructor]

He's doing well. Thanks for asking.

[@joanofarceable]

I like this film but I get 😢 from the constantly moving background. Love your lessons though.

[@rickywhite7578]

Hey teacher.. have you ever did any drawing on brown paper? I have a partial roll of brown paper

[@Rma0613]

Much more informative and useful for me than... someone irl😅

[@BirgitSchultz]

Great tips but the visual noise of the animated paper in the background is rather annoying.

[@JClaytonBrown]

Can you tell me what kind of pencil (brand and lead size) of the blue mechanical pencil at 3:30 (exercise #3)? Thank you! Great exercises!

[@thyagugouri]

❤❤❤

[@cristinejoynerjaagravantebolbe]

im a beginner...where will i start and what tools should i use??? i am a fan of blacks and white

[@Laila-7]

👍👍👍

[@tomasztrzaska2796]

I have issue with timed and gesture drawings. The only thing they did for me is making me stressed to the point that I almost quit drawing.
Other than that, great tips.

[@flamebrindger3984]

Can you do this, but for making digital art? There is a lot of terminology, and concepts that can be frustrating (to put it lightly) to grasp as a beginner who's just recently getting into art. Apologies if this sounded rude. Like cooking or driving, I do better when there's a guideline to help.

[@jenjoestar.]

Can you not do all of these on digital?

[@cycogamer2236]

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