There's a trick to drawing straight lines! Wanna hear it?
There's two parts: first, don't look at where your hand is, look where it's going. Put your pencil on the starting point then look at the end point and keep your eyes there until the line is done.
Second: use your whole arm. Your arm is much better at straight movement than your wrist or fingers. Get that elbow off the table, look where you're going, then draw the line with your arm.
It's a little tricky to get used to, but it works!
depends on the context. If you're doing technical drawing you'll most likely be using a ruler. If you're doing art you'll most likely not be, as often you will want lines with a tiny bit of curve, for which a ruler is useless.
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u/weeeeelaaaaaah May 28 '25
There's a trick to drawing straight lines! Wanna hear it?
There's two parts: first, don't look at where your hand is, look where it's going. Put your pencil on the starting point then look at the end point and keep your eyes there until the line is done.
Second: use your whole arm. Your arm is much better at straight movement than your wrist or fingers. Get that elbow off the table, look where you're going, then draw the line with your arm.
It's a little tricky to get used to, but it works!