How to Draw Straighter Lines 

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glide straight arm, use shoulder for extra long lines. dont move wrist.

@@arvin24ph no, they’re not straight, they’re gay

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You probably put the ruler over the line and readjusted it but it's angle is off so you readjust that side which makes the other side- you get it

SAME ITS NEVER PARALLEL TO THE PAPER EDGE

​@@aeea3306 ...they are saying the first initial line they can't get right... in fact in highschool my frie ds joked with me saying "straight lines" because even with a ruler it would always be off 😂 some people and lines don't get along and that is okay everyone's brain works different after all.

what is the shoulder motion?

@@favouronwuka2156 Like... moving your shoulder instead of the wrist?

That doesn’t make it worse for you? I’ve been seriously studying art for a decade and I still can’t trace lines or shapes with my hand down, but when I lift it and try drawing with my arm it’s like a robot not knowing how to control its parts. There’s a literal disconnect between my brain and where my body or other objects are in space. I might just be too disabled to learn art but I seriously thought stability was better for everyone..?

@@jasond.b-w That's just because you aren't used to it. Art studios recommend using your shoulder as it allows you to create accurate large motions.

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I’m hopeless too. I literally cannot trace lines or shapes without half of them going in the wrong direction or crossing each other. I can’t write letters or draw curved lines because they don’t bend the right way and when I say they’re slanted, I mean my S’s are two hills, or sometimes infinity signs, and I can’t feel it happening. When I try to trace lines and curves I literally FEEL my arm moving the way the shape curves, but watch my line stray further and further away from it. It’s impossible to explain to people who don’t experience it. Have you ever been referred to OT for spatial or motor dysgraphia, by any chance? Or, does it affect your ability to write letters too?

@@jasond.b-w I suspect I might have neural defects but small ones, not noticed by normal examination. I was never diagnosed anything like that but I do have problems making lines right. Then again, I cannot compare. Well, maybe if I had a friend master artist that would be so close I could torture him asking about every tiny detail of his working process... Other than that, I cannot know if it's my personal problem or a general problem to everyone. It could be I'm fighting what others simply accept. It could be I'm broken a bit... It's also hard to tell because I have large hands. Wide bones. Writing becomes harder as the size of my palm makes paper further away, if you know what I mean. The bones also move less. I have a "stone hand". Too stiff, whether playing something that requires mouse precision or drawing details. I'm not that rich to afford being examined that thoroughly and by a good doctor so I may never know... Thanks for sharing though. Feeling less alone is nice.

I wish i could help you but the best thing i could tell you is signing up for classes

You can hack a straight edge by drawing against pencils, pens, other paper and more. But that's always relying on something else. Building up your skill at drawing them will make you faster, when drawing something like several smaller lay-in lines, as well as hone your ability to make exactly the mark you intend to when you move your pencil.

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"Wrong" is only ever used in art when talking you really missing the mark on doing what you intend to. Like trying to nail a likeness for a portrait. As I'm sure you've used or seen, long straight lines are used in landscapes. Some pull those lines by hand or use a palette knife to shortcut making those lines. Your preferred subject may not feature a lot of those lines but lines certainly occur in nature.

@@ProkoTV lines do but not straight lines. World isnt perfect there's always curves. I never once seen a real naturally occurring horizon that was perfectly straight, its impossible. Mountain ranges and hills have rolls and jagged edges. Not even water is straight it always ripples in the wind or a fish just under the surface. Telling me im wrong isnt correct. Even doing a protrait of someone there's no straight lines anywhere located on or in the human body not even bones. Only man made things have straight lines there for its not nature it's man-made human structures or artificial nature. I guess this could help you be more precise but still nothing's perfect. I watch art videos for inspiration precision is not needed in landscape art there's nothing precise about landscapes.

​@@NatashaWinland this is interesting to me, where do you go in nature where that is the case? Sounds like you haven't visited a desert, high Mesa, calm lake or other body of placid water, been to the Midwest, the ocean, anywhere there has been glacial movement, seen rock striations, rutilated quartz, columnar basalt, crystalline formations, a snowflake, a light stream, a palm leaf, nor found depth perception guidelines helpful, which sounds really tough to imagine.

@@donnawestbrook8992 earth is round not flat. The ground has a slight curve naturally. Drawing it completly straight is wrong. Only man made things are perfectly straight. A desert isnt flat is has sand dunes and divets. The planet itself has a curve to it, parts may look flat but theyre not its always slightly curved.

@@NatashaWinland saying it doesn't make it so. The curvature of the earth is only visible from at or above 35,000 feet or 10,600 meters, and you obviously have been below that altitude and seen an unimpeded horizon. Choosing not to draw that is your right, but doesn't mean it doesn't exist and can't be drawn with a strait line. Any reasonable person can view crystalline formations and rutilated inclusions in quartz and see the straight lines. Even a child looking at a snowflake under a microscope knows better than to think strait lines are all man made.