# Create a beginner drawing practice plan

A step-by-step drawing curriculum with daily exercises that builds real skills, from lines and shapes to your own subjects.

- Topic: Learning & Teaching
- Framework: Few-Shot
- Level: Standard
- Tags: Plan, Fill-in Template
- Source: https://www.thinkwithprompt.com/prompts/create-a-beginner-drawing-practice-plan

## Prompt

```text
Create a drawing practice plan to help me improve as a beginner.

**What I want to be able to draw:** [e.g. "people", "animals", "urban sketches", "comics", "botanical drawings"]
**My current level:** [e.g. "stick figures", "I doodle but can't get proportions right"]
**Materials:** [e.g. "pencil and printer paper", "sketchbook", "tablet"]
**Time:** [e.g. "15 minutes a day"]
**Frustrations:** [e.g. "my drawings look flat", "I erase too much", "I don't know what to draw"]

Build an 8-week plan covering fundamentals in a sensible order: confident lines, basic shapes and forms, observation (drawing what I see, not what I think I see), proportion and measuring, light and shading, then my chosen subject.

For each week give:
- The skill focus and why it matters.
- 3-4 short daily exercises with clear instructions (e.g. contour drawing without looking, 2-minute gesture drawings, shading a cube or an egg).
- One "fun" drawing that applies the skill to my interests.
- A check: what improvement to look for.

Also include:
- How to use references legally and well (my own photos, free reference sites, life drawing).
- A habit for comparing old and new drawings so I can see progress.
- Encouragement on the "ugly drawing" phase: quantity before quality.
```

## What to fill in

- e.g. "pencil and printer paper", "sketchbook", "tablet"
- e.g. "15 minutes a day"

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