Practicer

Feet

Instruction Draw or paint one hundred heads. Use reference for a few and redraw from memory after a certain time.

Links https://www.pinterest.ie/characterd
https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca8
https://www.deviantart.com/adorkast

Heads

Instruction Draw or paint one hundred heads. Use reference for a few and redraw from memory after a certain time.

Links https://www.deviantart.com/adamanta
https://www.clipstudio.net/how-to-d
https://anoia.tumblr.com/post/76841
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rm

Hands

Instruction Draw or paint one hundred hands. Use reference for a few and redraw from memory after a certain time.

Links https://www.gvaat.com/blog/how-to-d

Facial Expression

Instruction - Analyse Photos which show facial expresison
- Then make a drawing after the photo.
- Redraw from memory
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Links https://www.clipstudio.net/how-to-d
https://www.bodiesinmotion.photo/qu

Gesture

Instruction Look up reference pictures of dynamic posed persons/ animals.
Set a timer to 30-120 seconds.
Start with central lines which follow the flow of the person.
Add simple primitives for the masses of the body.

Links https://quickposes.com/en/gestures/
https://www.bodiesinmotion.photo/qu
https://www.posespace.com/posetool/
https://conceptartempire.com/tips-f
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestu
https://www.proko.com/how-to-draw-g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdt

5 Minutes

Instruction Paint for 5 Minutes with a friend.

Links

100 Heads

Instruction Draw 100 Heads

Links https://brushwarriors.com/100-heads
https://www.clipstudio.net/how-to-d
https://www.bodiesinmotion.photo/qu

100 Days

Instruction Draw and paint every day for 100 Days.

Links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic1

Draw Again

Instruction Choose an old drawing or painting and recreate it!

Links https://www.boredpanda.com/draw-me-

Different Style

Instruction Recreate an image in 5-6 differnt styles.

Links https://brushwarriors.com/20-art-st
https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca8

20 Strokes

Instruction Draw a Landscape with a maximum of 20 Strokes.
Focus on the essential big shapes to transport the mood.

Links https://twitter.com/nathanfowkesart
https://www.volquardsen.art/en/2020
https://www.heavypaint.app/

Color Picking

Instruction - Choose a reference
- Pick some colors from the reference and draw simple boxes
- In a new Painting, estimate the hue, value and saturation. Paint also the boxes.
- If the color is off, try again up to two more times per box.

Links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuz

Hue and Saturation

Instruction After Nathan Fowkes: Blend together colors that have contrast of hue and saturation in any way you find interesting. Make sure the colors have very litthe contrast.

Links http://www.nathanfowkesart.com/

Color

Instruction Choose three colors, equally seperated on the color wheel (substractive colorwheel).
Mix them all together to make three desaturated / grayisch variant.
Paint a picture and notice how the dull colors bring each other do life.
For a little bit of contrast, put down a single stroke of a more saturated color.

Links http://www.nathanfowkesart.com/2014

Optical Gray

Instruction Nathan Fowkes - How to Paint Landscapes Quickly and Beautifully:
Choose three Colors, evenly seperated on the color wheel.
They should have the same optical brightness. Now place them dotwise next to each other.Make an evenly and equal distribution.
The goal is that the colors should optical mix to gray when looked at from a distance.

Links http://www.nathanfowkesart.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:

Contrast

Instruction Lookup Ittens seven contrast rules.

Links https://de.zxc.wiki/wiki/Sieben_Far
https://www.paintingandartists.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan
https://twitter.com/IsaacOrloff/sta

Value

Instruction - Choose 2, 3, or 4 different Values.
- If painting after a reference, group the values into your choosen values.
- Consider also low or highkeys. There you want to group 2-3 of your chosen values together to be on ether on the dark or light side.

Links https://www.muddycolors.com/2012/08
https://makingamark.blogspot.com/20

Shape

Instruction - Place the given shapes in interesting ways.
- Scaling, distoriton and duplication is allowed.
- You may also change the values of the elements.
- The goal is to make pictures which feel: static, dynamic, balanced or chaotic, calm or agressive.
- Try do draw attention to selected areas.

Links https://www.google.de/books/edition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6y

Line Weight

Instruction An exercise to practice different lineweights for inside/outside lines.
Paint overlapping objects and assign differnt lineweights to show the form /position / lighting

Links https://drawabox.com

Line Control

Instruction An exercise to practice different drawing lines and circles to improce muscle memory. Draw lines in the marked areas. Draw perfect circles

Links https://drawabox.com

Hatching

Instruction Make a simple drawing.
Choose different hatching techniques to describe its form or value changes.
-(Alternative) Chose a classic drawing, erase the existing hatching and redo them (More like a masterstudy).

Links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNj
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsG
https://www.erikalancaster.com/art-

Exposure

Instruction Choose under or overexposed and adjust the values and colors on the objects accordingly.

Links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expos

Ambient Occlusion

Instruction Paint the Ambient Occlusion for different Objects. Paint a simple object and add lights from different directions. These should vary in color and intensity.

Links https://youtu.be/WiC4tiOSn_M
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambie
https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/asset

Time of Day

Instruction Study different Lighting Scenarios which occour during the day. Pick a daytime, seach for reference and try to transfer the lighting onto a simple scene.

Links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayst
http://www.nathanfowkesart.com/2006

Light Schemas

Instruction Paint different light types on simple forms. Key, Fill, Bounce, . .. Paint a simple object and add lights from different directions. These should vary in color and intensity.

Links https://painting.tube/master-class-
https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/

Shadow Construction

Instruction Construct shadows for simple and complex objects. Construct the shadow of simple grids and sticks. These can be cast on other objects. Try different lights to see the effect of hard or soft shadows.

Links https://de.zxc.wiki/wiki/Schattenko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDr

Bounce Light

Instruction Paint the effect of light bouncing of objects and onto others. Paint the effect of light bouncing of objects and onto others.

Links https://www.artistsnetwork.com/art-
https://www.artistsandillustrators.
https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/

Fanart

Instruction Make fanart of your favorite artworks.

Links https://www.deviantart.com/topic/fa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_a

Thumbnail

Instruction Study Masterpaintings by generating thumbnails. Paint a miniture masterstudy. Focus on Value, Composition, Edges and Color.

Links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe6
https://www.proko.com/developing-yo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGI

Movie Still

Instruction Paint a Still frame from a movie.

Links

Limitation

Instruction Simplify the refernce into big brushstrockes. Zoom out of the picture while painting.

Links https://www.heavypaint.app/

Form Change

Instruction Paint objects which have complex form changes and shade them accordingly. Study the value / color behaviour of form changes on complex objects. Holes, half_spheres and other transition between objects.

Links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC3
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-f9eR6tEl
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-f9eR6tEl

Material

Instruction Choose an object which has the material you want to study.
Make a sketch of it where you analyse how diffuse / reflective/ transparent / coated it is.
Repaint a simple sphere in the material with the reference by its side.
Redraw the sphere from memory.
Redraw the object from memory.

Links https://powercami5000.tumblr.com/po

Edges

Instruction Work on hard and soft edges and or lost and found edges.Try blending forms with hard and soft edges. . ..

Links https://drawpaintacademy.com/edges/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgv

Value

Instruction Paint imaginative or refernced simple objects and studie the values.

Links https://www.deviantart.com/nsio/art

Value Texture

Instruction Paint imaginative or refernced simple objects. Blend a phototexture into some area and adjust its values to match your painting.

Links https://www.outdoorpainter.com/pain

Story

Instruction Include story elements inside your painting / illustration

Links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUC
https://www.artistsnetwork.com/maga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAZ
https://painting.tube/master-class-

Observation

Instruction - Observe with a purpose
- Choose Reference on the topic ou want to study
- Aim to learn more what zou want to observe
- Assignment: Try Mindfullness and keep track of time.

Links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA5

Reference

Instruction Use Reference with purpose. Develope an workflow to analyse reference images and increase your visual library.

Links https://www.creativebloq.com/how-to

Studying

Instruction Overthink your approach how you study a subject.
Notice whats the best way for you to learn and remember new things.
You might want to study a subject for several days, changing the exercises from copying in the begining to redraw from memory more often.

Links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY_
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF0