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.

[@justinwebb3117]

Absolutely fascinating! ❤

[@deborahburns9126]

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

[@Liz-sy7iu]

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

[@sz4963]

Love these ideas! Thanks 🙏

[@davidsiquiero9670]

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

[@leomiguelsalinas]

Fantastic video Matt! Thanks for the exercises!

[@brendaashton6428]

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

[@AmNhacThienNhien]

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

[@jL-pf1go]

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

[@eileenlichtenfeld5370]

That was an excellent refresher! thanks

[@barbarahenn-pander5872]

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

[@murtirahayu1277]

Thank you for the great tips!

[@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

[@DottieStanley]

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

[@clarauribe2357]

Thank you very much. Very good lesson.

[@brightsky5586]

Great exercises!! Thank you!!

[@sparkleevanagy]

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

[@elsle4689]

Thank you for the information

[@patriciabrowning5741]

Thanks for the great information

[@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.

[@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!

[@anaghachonkar6506]

Thank you for sharing the valuable information with us

[@ourartandcraft1M]

Really impressive drawing with tutorials ❤❤❤❤

[@JAsisterti]

Great tips as always!

[@BarBaraWhorleyCrawfordESS]

Excellent. Love your teaching style❤

[@jfbouverat]

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

[@scholarthefuture7284]

Surely will try all this soon!❤

[@sylhayes8152]

Absolutely fantastic

[@colinadevivero]

You are terrific! Keep up your good work 🎉

[@eikiue]

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

[@terrrebell]

Awesome advice for me. Thank You.

[@spbv1961]

Thanks 🤩

[@steveis33]

Patience and perseverance as well👍

[@centurionstrengthandfitnes3694]

This was GREAT! Subbed.

[@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.

[@jayfogelman]

Outstanding.

[@alisyed7179]

Very helpful lesson for anyone interested in drawing. Thanks

[@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.

[@user-be2yl5uh7g]

Excellent video. Thank you.

[@gummymu]

thank you so much this is really really helpful lesson

[@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.

[@moderatorrainbow7117]

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

[@goffjmorgan]

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

[@jumanas4012]

thank you 😊

[@sankarnarayanan5514]

Great and useful excercise

[@abdool4374]

The kindest artist I ever knew ❤

[@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.❤

[@shyammalla111]

Useful!

[@lindasplaylist100]

Much thanks!

[@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

[@ellywentwest]

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

[@Poisonedblade]

These are really good exercises for intermediates!

[@DB_in_AZ]

Thx so much for these lessons. ❤

[@robertclarkson6064]

Thank you 👍👍👍

[@pjhall2050]

Thanks!

[@tharcisseilunga6658]

Thank you

[@ourartandcraft1M]

Fantastic ❤❤❤

[@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!

[@Ammon6]

Very useful tips.

[@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.

[@sablecreative]

Brilliant vid, thank you 🙌

[@thevirtualinstructor]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@suzishapiro9867]

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

[@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

[@veronicapratt7961]

Thanks

[@user-xy2qh8tg1v]

Thanks 🙏 U UNREAL💞

[@rosemorales1034]

Very nice, thank you very much, quite a gentleman

[@AFAskygoddess]

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

[@jerrifreeman7034]

Very helpful

[@marywilliams9709]

Excellent -thank you!

[@thevirtualinstructor]

Glad it was helpful!

[@rekhathakore9366]

Very informative

[@seenuz1]

Good 1 👌

[@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!

[@TravelMaximizer]

Excellent video

[@JamesArnault-ls3ce]

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

[@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

[@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 🇸🇦❤️❤️❤️

[@nosheenansari450]

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

[@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.

[@nickrodis6862]

Salamat po

[@jillhuhn1129]

Thanks Matt, long time no see! :D

[@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!

[@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!

[@mariotscott-kiwi]

Thanks, as I am new to drawing😊

[@thevirtualinstructor]

You're very welcome!

[@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.

[@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.

[@stefespag2888]

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

[@mehmetyhallac]

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

[@4qigong]

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

[@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.

[@rickywhite7578]

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

[@joanofarceable]

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

[@kimranson4775]

❤❤❤

[@henriquejanuario881]

Thanks for the class! How is Ashley?

[@thevirtualinstructor]

He's doing well. Thanks for asking.

[@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!

[@cristinejoynerjaagravantebolbe]

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

[@cycogamer2236]

❤

[@johanneberube6682]

💖

[@Laila-7]

👍👍👍