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How to Draw - For Extreme Beginners - Hand Control (Skillshare)

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Never drawn in your life? This is for you. This is an introductory drawing lesson for extreme beginners. I go through hand control. Control is one of he corner stones of drawing. It also is a corner stone of how well you develop your drawing skills for years to come. I hope you enjoy and use his as a base. The exercises here are ones I repeat even to this day. This will take you to places you never thought. Thanks so much. Its a short lesson, lets get started!

As far as projects, I recommend doing pages of the exercise and posting them here. And I'll reply to every post. Getting as much done will improve your control. Show me what you can do! here we go.

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