The big, general “learn to draw” module — lines, shapes, form, and space, before
anything specific to comics or cartooning. It’s built on two YouTube playlists worked through side
by side.
An excellent, very well produced guide to the concepts. Each video lays out what to work on, but
it isn’t a homework channel — it assumes you’ll go find your own practice material for
the ideas it introduces.
More focused on direct instruction and homework: concrete exercises to practice. Lean on it for
structured practice.
How to work through them
the loop
Watch both playlists in order. Take the next video (or so) from each, then stop and practice what it
covered. Don’t move on until you have some real proficiency with it — not mastery, just the
feeling that you can do it on purpose. That might take one week, two weeks, or longer. Then watch the
next video in each and repeat.
Proficiency, not mastery. You’ll keep coming back to every one of these
ideas for years. The bar for moving on is “I get it and can do it reasonably,” not
“it’s perfect.”
Solo research is the key skill here. Neither playlist hands you everything you
need to practice, Draw Like a Sir especially. When a concept doesn’t click, or you run out of
things to draw, go look it up: other tutorials on the same topic, drills and worksheets, reference
photos, other artists’ takes. Finding your own practice material is part of the work.
Build your own warm-up toolkit. This plan gives you the bones; the specifics
are yours. When you find a drill worth coming back to, write it down somewhere you’ll see it
and use it to warm up. Your list will look different from anyone else’s, and that’s the point.
Mix drills and play. Drill the concept, then use it in drawings you actually
want to make.
Companion reading
How to Draw covers much of the same ground — confident lines,
ellipses, perspective boxes — with the reasoning behind each drill. This module originally started
with its Chapters 1 and 5, but the book is dry as a starting point, so the playlists took over as the
main path. Keep it around to look things up or go deeper when a topic grabs you.
Steps
Watch the next video (or so) from each playlist, in orderDraw Like a Sir:VideoPeter Han:Video
Practice what it covered until you can do it on purpose — researching extra drills and material as needed
Write down the drills worth keeping as your own warm-up list
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