WARM UP

STRAIGHT LINES and ELLIPSES- 6 minutes

 

Keeping your hand controlled but relaxed, draw straight lines. It can help to draw two points first and then quickly “ghost” between them, moving the pencil above the paper to practice the stroke.  

 

Once you’ve done some point to point lines, try some freehand lines.

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Once you’ve done some straight lines, try some free-hand ellipses.

 

You can start with a full circle and slowly squash it with every subsequent ellipse. You may want to use an ellipse template, or create some ellipses in illustrator and print them out to use as reference.

 

Draw a line through the major and minor axis (the line that divides the ellipse on it’s longest side and shortest side, respectively). Your ellipses should be symmetrical on both sides.