How can creating loose sketches improve drawing skills?

Answer by  Jon3320 (20)

Loose sketches allow you to understand movement and weight better while avoiding focusing excessively on details. You're less likely to lose focus on the entire subject while working on a particular area of the sketch. It's also a great way to warm up for long drawing sessions.

Answer by  anna2662 (232)

Loose sketches allows you to draw quick and fast. Its a great way to pratice drawing something. This way you can draw the object many times in a short period of time to be able to better understand the object and how it looks, and where to place it in space.

Answer by  tedros (211)

Loose drawing frees your eye to be more creative. You observe your subject and record a quick impression. It also can help to focus on the lines and strokes of your work.

Answer by  Brodello (68)

Loose sketching is a warm up exercise that improves drawing skills in terms of speed and paying attention to the overall form of what your are aiming to draw. It allows you to gain fluidity, speed and maps down your subject without worrying yet about the minor details. This is suggested before drawing your final picture.

Answer by  rbiales (3441)

Your body is a muscle and a muscles is the machine with which you draw. The more often you do these drawing excercises, the better.

Answer by  ilovepaige (21)

Creating a loose sketch can improve your creativity. The lines in the sketch being not so perfect makes the sketch yours and kinda gives it you own little signiture on the piece.