03-27-2025, 01:11 AM
What matter is if they are done freehanded(preferably) or with a ruler. Also the length of them. Just doing the same A to B movement is not enough to have good penmanship you got to be able to do vertical, horizontal, diagonal each of those specific movement as 2 variant one from point A to B and one from B to A.
Then if you kind master those linear variant you start to teach yourself to measure the angle of two segment of line this can be useful for people who will do technical drawing.
Beyond that you also have line thickness going from thin to thick /thick to thin you can do that also for every case scenario i gave before.
Line exercise are not a requirement to draw they are good warm up. The general us of being able to draw different line from most hand position is so that you don't have to rotate your paper when drawing in real life. It kinda easy to rotate the whole canva digitally but it won't hurt since your real life drawing skill will transfer to digital drawing.
One thing if you want to do the exercise similarly to what you been doing would be to instead to do set of line draw over the same line and maintain the quality of the line you will save alot of paper that way.
What i recommend is if you find a certain position difficult practice that movement but most likely what i would say is try free form line making where you just draw whatever pattern but in a repetitive kind of fashion basically free form it much more useful to be able to make pattern because it basically also line but you actuall have intention. The rational of why i recommend free form is because they help you develop a sense of scale, the ability to evaluate distance also i feel like the repetitive exercise leak creative edge of that exercise and the number are pretty meaning less and arbitrary. What i like to do is keep a post it block and if i feel like i need to warm up a fill up that scare with free hand pattern it can also be a nice way to warm of for texturing which is basically often line base when done with fine point pen.
Then if you kind master those linear variant you start to teach yourself to measure the angle of two segment of line this can be useful for people who will do technical drawing.
Beyond that you also have line thickness going from thin to thick /thick to thin you can do that also for every case scenario i gave before.
Line exercise are not a requirement to draw they are good warm up. The general us of being able to draw different line from most hand position is so that you don't have to rotate your paper when drawing in real life. It kinda easy to rotate the whole canva digitally but it won't hurt since your real life drawing skill will transfer to digital drawing.
One thing if you want to do the exercise similarly to what you been doing would be to instead to do set of line draw over the same line and maintain the quality of the line you will save alot of paper that way.
What i recommend is if you find a certain position difficult practice that movement but most likely what i would say is try free form line making where you just draw whatever pattern but in a repetitive kind of fashion basically free form it much more useful to be able to make pattern because it basically also line but you actuall have intention. The rational of why i recommend free form is because they help you develop a sense of scale, the ability to evaluate distance also i feel like the repetitive exercise leak creative edge of that exercise and the number are pretty meaning less and arbitrary. What i like to do is keep a post it block and if i feel like i need to warm up a fill up that scare with free hand pattern it can also be a nice way to warm of for texturing which is basically often line base when done with fine point pen.