Many beginner artists naturally find themselves drawing from their wrist. After all, that's how we write. But we tend to write in a relatively small size and move across the page in lines.

Many beginner artists naturally find themselves drawing from their wrist. After all, that's how we write. But we tend to write in a relatively small size and move across the page in lines.

Drawing is hard. Even after a lesson with a New Yorker cartoonist, I get spooked by the simplest drawing exercises. If you’re also easily scared off, but you want to get better, try these basic ...

A student works on a drawing exercise during the "Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner" course on Oct. 2, 2018, at the Silvermine Arts Center in New Canaan, Connecticut.

Beginning Drawing Art 20A Section 2 Credit: 3 units Prerequisite: none Room / Time: KDM 266 - M/W, 11 am - 1:50 pm, 9/3/03 -12/17/03 ... Continued exercises in shape and volume. Sharpening observation ...