In this class I’ll show you how and why I warm up in 12 different exercises, giving you all the tools you need to start each sketching session with confidence. All whilst improving your art!

My name is Toby, known as 'Toby Sketch Loose', and I know that warming up before sketching is something I really should do more of. When I don’t warm up, too often my first sketch goes awry, wonky or just lacks clarity and confidence.

Because of these mistakes and learning through experience I developed a series of warm up exercises that I can use to fit my mood and the scenes I’m planning to tackle. These exercises suit all abilities, ranging from simple marks through to characterful thumbnails like the ones below.

Today, I’m going to show you just how you can improve your art, gain confidence and warm up right before every sketching and drawing session, in just a few minutes.

Together we will:

Understand why warming up is so important
Examine simple warm up exercises
Refine our skills by embedding good habits
Fill our sketchbooks with fun and loose marks
Gain confidence to go out and start sketching more and more

And, as we go, I'll give you all the tips and tricks I use to refine and enhance these warm ups, keeping them relevant to my sketching plans and making sure that they don’t get in the way of creating the art I really want to create!

No matter where you have reached in your artistic journey, what kind of artist or creator you are, you'll leave this class feeling inspired and confident in your creative abilities!

Audio credits:

Apero Hour Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons By Attribution 4.0 License
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Sally M

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