With this exercise I want you to introduce some basic shapes to your sketching and practise using continuous line. To make this easy, I want you to work in 2D and keep the shapes simple. The purpose of these exercises is to get you drawing more loosely and in a more relaxed, free style and to get you used to continuous line sketching, which we will use more as we progress
p Next take a soft pencil (2B to 4B) and draw over the shapes, using lovely rounded, continuous lines. As before, go to-and-fro, up-and-down, etc. Be rhythmic in your approach and, as the drawing progresses, start to enjoy the aesthetics of the line you are drawing
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First draw the 2D shapes you see. Draw these as individual shapes, using soft pencil lines, next to each other or overlapping where necessary
The photograph shows a simple still life (feel free to create your own). The point of the exercise is not to draw the objects, but just to draw the shapes that you see