TWO HANDED DRAWING EXERCISES : Practice Drawing with Both Hands to Improve Your Creativity and Become AmbiDextrous

Two Handed Drawing Exercises

Why Should Beginners Practice Two-Handed Exercises.

Because you will improve your drawing skills for one. But, on top of that, you will also increase your drawing speed as well. Speed and grace are learned by the rhythmical two-handed exercises detailed on this page. Get out a drawing instrument such as a pencil.

In each of the following examples the starting point is indicated by an A. If at all possible, two-handed exercises should be done until you become ambidextrous (in other words, able to draw effectively with both hands). Each time you practice the two-handed exercise, it should last about five minutes.

The best movements at first are the quarter circles, reversed starting at the top in Fig. 1 (see the image above). After this drawing exercise in the lines at top of Fig. 1, you can then start doing the more complex drawings immediately below them.

In Fig. 2, above, the lines cause freedom of movement and train the muscles.

Fig. 3 above, the illustration consists of two-handed exercises intended to help your imagination and your creative skills by using both sides of your brain. You can add your own details to these and also other figures...making sure to still use both of your hands.

Fig. 4, above, contains suggestions for two-handed exercises, in which the hands work independently of eachother. I know that it takes a lot of practice and concentration to draw with both hands...but you can do it if you practice.

The lines on the right-hand side of each object are to be drawn first with the right hand; immediately afterward the opposite half is to be completed with the left hand short strokes.

Don't get discourage if it is too hard for you to do....or if your drawings look wrong to your eyes. It is hard for almost everyone who tries this exercise.