March Drawing Challenge
Daily Drawing Exercises
Drawing exercises for beginners and intermediates to aid in getting a daily routine.
March Week 1
Draw Cylinders
This week we will look into the human body. Begin by drawing simple cylindrical forms and place them in order to create the human body.
This exercise we can do with one pencil in HB or a pure graphite pencil. |
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Draw Body Proportions
Draw the proportions of the human body for both male and female simplified by using mostly cylindrical shapes.
Notice the length of each human component. Notice that the shoulder of men are usually broader than that of women and the lower hip of women is wider than that of most men. This sketch can all be done with one pencil. |
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Draw Women Sitting 1
Today we draw a simple sketch of a women sitting on the ground.
We are using gestural drawing with line contour variation. |
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Draw a Standing Person
Another somewhat gestural sketch of a person that is standing. Draw guidelines on both side of the figure to help you see the curvature of each body part.
Indicate muscle lines throughout the body. You can use just one pencil. |
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Draw Women Sitting
After you have drawn all outlines by taking line variations into account, highlight a specific area by drawing that part in detail and leave the rest unfinished, as seen on the image to the right within the fabric.
This is a job for mostly the lighter 4H and 2H pencils. |
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Draw a Pair of Legs
It can be of great help when drawing the body, to look out for curves and try to see their straightness and when finding straight lines to see if they have a slight convex or concave tendency.
Use just one single pencil grade and draw in a gestural manner. |
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Catch Up Day
Today you can either rest, or try to finish some of the uncompleted work due for this week.
March Week 2
Draw a Bike
Either work from photographs or using your kids or neighbours bike and place it within an interesting environment.
All you might get done are just a few parts of the bike, but in case you want to continue drawing set your bike within a pleasant setting. |
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Draw a Pot
Today we are going to draw a pot or vase. Use something interesting, for example a dented surface or an interesting ornamental glazing.
Begin as usual with a 2H for outlining your subject and then with various different pencils create the details. If you are drawing the given subject, please note the detail on the right for the little dent in the pot. The curve is not just round but is made of rather straight sections and is within the corners almost squished. |
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Draw Basic Forms With Different Textures
We are drawing basic form today but venturing into different kind of hatching, scribbling to create a textures feel.
First create some interesting scribbles and then apply them to your image. I like in particular the first image on the left. |
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Draw a Bucket
Draw an old bucket, possibly a metal one. Place the bucket near an old door or fence outside somewhere in your garden.
Try to create an atmospheric perspective by giving the focal point, in this case the bucket tonal dominance, softening all else around it in high key (lighter tonal values). |
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Draw A Boat
Use a variety of pencil grades for this drawing.
First, get some reference material and think of the composition. Do you want to do only one rowing boat, or three? Should one be the focal point and closer than the others or should all of them have equal dominance? It is up to you. |
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Draw a Flower
Choose a flower, be it a simple tulip or a more complicated African Lily and draw it the usual realistic way. Use the harder pencils for softer shadings and darker ones for line contour variations.
This time we will pick a few sections of the drawing and create soft out-lines almost to point of appearing completely blurred. You must keep other sections with sharper edges, as the viewer otherwise will get lost. The virtues always lies between lost and found. |
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Catch Up Day
Today you can either rest, or try to finish some of the uncompleted work due for this week.
March Week 3
Drawing Horses
This week we will be drawing the horse.
After you have applied a fine outline create line contour variations and do the shading between a mixture of layering and cross hatching with the harder pencils, anything from 2h to 6h. In this drawing you can see the soft layering on the front part of the horse and the legs in the back are only indicatively drawn with simple cross-hatching. |
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Drawing a Horse's Head
This side view of a horse's head can be drawn both with normal graphite or pure graphite pencils.
Use a 2h for the lighter sections and a 4b for the darker areas. If you use hatching, try to do some warm-up exercises as it is crucial to have the hatching lines nicely and evenly spaced. |
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Another Head of a Horse
Today we adhere to the same approach as yesterday's drawing. Only today our horse has a halter.
Again, if you are using the hatching method, make sure that you warm up to produce very evenly spaced lines, as this is crucial for the hatching as the cross-hatching technique. |
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Draw a Horse from the Side
With the same technique as the previous horse studies draw a horse from its side.
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Draw a Horse from the Front
Today you are to draw the front view of a horse.
Have fun. |
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Draw a Galopping Horse
Finally we will be drawing a horse in movement today.
Whenever you are seeing straight lines, watch if they are concave or convex, if you are seeing a curve, look for the straightness within it. Our left side of the brain will overdue a curve by habit, and overlook the curvature with a rather straight line. |
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Catch Up Day
Today you can either rest, or try to finish some of the uncompleted work due for this week.
March Week 4
Drawing Flowers
This week we will be drawing different kinds of flowers.
As usual draw a fine outlines without any pressure with a 2h pencil. Then pick out some contour variations on top of those lines with a 4b to bring some drama to drawing. Last you render the soft shading with a 2h pencil. All of this weeks exercises will be done the same way. |
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Draw a Flower
Draw a flower from your garden or use this example by applying the technique described on first day of this week the 22nd of March.
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Draw a Flower No 2
Draw a flower that has a round head that is made of many smaller buds.
Use the technique for this week described as described on first day of this week the 22nd of March. |
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Draw a Flower No 3
Draw one of those flowers that are altogether very soft and delicate that they won't last in a vase, like buttercups and daisies.
Use the technique for this week described as described on first day of this week the 22nd of March. |
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Draw Small Flowers
Today we draw one of my two favourite flowers, the "Maigloeckchen" lily of the valley or the "Kornblume", the korn flower. I see them as humble flowers, one appearing as the first flower in spring, growing even through the snow, and the simple blue korn flower pocking out from among the fields of grain.
Use the technique for this week described as described on first day of this week the 22nd of March. |
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Draw a Flower No 4
On the last day of our flower week, we are drawing a Marigold with the same technique as on the other days of this week.
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Catch Up Day
Today you can either rest, or try to finish some of the uncompleted work due for this week.
March Week 5
Draw a Rose
Draw a Rose half open. Always draw the largest petals first and then the smaller ones, as proportions become less confusing that way.
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Draw a Rose No 2
Draw another rose today to get a deeper understanding of the typical petal form of this flower.
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Catch Up Day
Today you can either rest, or try to finish some of the uncompleted work due for this week.
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