im confused

[Surab]

I read somewhere that when you draw your supposed to use your whole arm and lock your wrist, when I draw I do most of the motions with my wrist wich am i supposed to do.

[Noah Bradley]

Draw with your whole arm, all the way to your shoulder.

You don't have to draw every intricate detail that way, but it should help get your lines to be more confident, more accurate, and you'll avoid injury to your wrist.

[Ilaekae]

Agree. This allows you to develop confidence and speed, and gives your art a more fluid appearance than a little choppy bunch of lines would.

Obviously, if you're doing extremely detailed areas, you switch over to your finger/wrist for control. It's just common sense knowing when to do what.

The biggest advantage to whole-arm drawing is that you're forced to move back and get your damn greasy nose off the paper so you can actually see what you're doing in its entirety.

[Surab]

Yea this subject just seemed confusing to me because I think I misheard what someone said in a video and was trying to figure out if all the good artists used there whole arm. And btw I'm the most inexperienced hobby artist this forum will have ever seen should I still post a sketchbook?

[Justice Von Brandt]

Of course you should post a sketchbook

[Ilaekae]

...and you should post it with drawings in it. :P

[Leonor]

I am not aware of worrying with what part of my body is moving when I draw and I doubt I'll be moving my arm from my shoulder while drawing with a mechanical pencil on a A5 sketchbook.

Isn't Andrew Loomis that has a quote "how the next guy holds his pencil is the least of your worries" or something like that?

It's unlikely you are the most inexperienced I have ever seen and if you are, that could only be cool. People would get to see your progress from absolute start to mastery. Each time a newbie joined, you would be a reference.

[Baron Impossible]

Whichever works best for you. Nobody cares if you wedge the pencil between your butt-cheeks as long as it gets the job done.

[Hyskoa]

Whichever works best for you. Nobody cares if you wedge the pencil between your butt-cheeks as long as it gets the job done.

Actually, you get paid extra if you can do it with your butt-cheeks.

[Droid]

Whichever works best for you. Nobody cares if you wedge the pencil between your butt-cheeks as long as it gets the job done.

What Baron said, except without the slighly disturbing butt-cheeks image.

:assspank:

[Surab]

Actually, you get paid extra if you can do it with your butt-cheeks.

Ill start working on that

[Black Spot]

Ill start working on that

Don't forget to post on Youtube.

[Desero]

I think Drawing is kinda similar to martial arts. There are a zillion different schools and styles and only a couple way to throw a punch. Much the same with art. There are only so many ways to draw a line.
Visual arts is as at least as old as organized warfare so there have been many, many, many, many different styles just crack open an art history book. Etruscan, Minoan, Hellenistic, Classical, Pre Christian, Renaissance, Baroque ect, ect. and those are all just vague generalization. All I'm saying is EXPLORE draw with your butt cheeks, feet or nose (preferably not in that order) for all anybody cares as long you're holding your pencil or brush in different ways .An emotive s41+-y drawing is way better than a lifeless precise one. Draw like $7-t, nobody cares, hell 20 years ago fine art was rolling around in $#*7 and humping bags of ground beef

To not sound like a total wind bag here are some tips for technical drawings.. to get better with your shoulders try drawing while standing up. (You can get nice long, crisp, straight lines in about a week of practice.) When you're sitting down keep your elbow up (2-5 in.). That always works for me but it cramps the hell out of my back so I take 5min breaks every 90 minutes or so to stretch out my shoulders. Finger drawing and wrist drawing have their place but don’t rely on them they’ll sooner betray you than help you.