Ok so I proabably have drawn for around 5 years and am getting better quickly since I bought this awesome drawing course to teach you draw people from your mind. My drawings are good and very close to the accuracy of the guy's on the video but something that's bothered me for years and is really frustrating me now is my sketching quality. No matter how hard I try, my lines look too loose and hairy like instead of smooth graceful lines. I can't even draw an oval or elipse without alot of effort because I have no control over my pencil movements. So even when I draw a fantastic sketch, my lines are ugly and I want them to look great because I have a love for concept sketching and character designs but it's always soo dang messy and hairy looking. So what do I do to correct this, what exercises, how can I obtain total control of my pencil movements I want to create? I wanna get where I can draw an elipse or cylinder or ball effortlessly and smooth, not hairy and warped looking. <_< What do I do? what do I need to practice?

You can try to draw 2-D first. Make at least near perfect circles, squares, triangles sketches. Once you're fine with that, move onto 3-D. Well, I'm not sure if that's really going to help, but it does for me.

You can try to draw 2-D first. Make at least near perfect circles, squares, triangles sketches. Once you're fine with that, move onto 3-D. Well, I'm not sure if that's really going to help, but it does for me.

I'll try that, I'll do like some ovals and circles and lines and try to feel a flow of it and then I'll do it with 3d shapes and go from there. :P

A mistake a lot of people make is to watch their pencil too closely. Remember not to look at where your pencil is touching the paper - put your pencil down to start a line, then look ahead to where you want the line to end. Then make your stroke. It takes practice like any other part of drawing (I suck at it, hahah), but you'll slowly get better at it.

What I remember helping me was to draw a simple figure in one stroke.... so you don't lift up your pencil until you're done drawing whatever that you were drawing. Also..... yes there's more. :[drawing without lifting up your pencil gets tiring and it takes too much time, so maybe like... three or four times good enough, I think]: Instead of using your wrist to draw, try drawing with your whole arm. A lot of the time... rotation of one's wrist isn't long or big enough to execute the line, so we end the line in the middle of it and shift our hand and then continue again. It's kinda like having an extension cord so you can carry around your laptop around instead of having it unplugged and replugged again and again. (Not a bad analogy, if I don't say so myself lol) So..... if you use your whole arm... well then you don't have to worry about lifting your pencil... and have a continuous line without any of that messy look. It'll be hard first... but soon you will feel better about drawing a long line or even going over the same line to darken it.

Take some classes and if that isn't possible practice by copying a lot, both from pieces of skilled painters/draughtsmen and real life.

Also, study and observe other's art closely, especially the old masters. Go to a museum, look up blown-up photos in books and online, and figure out how they use color, their brush, pencils and erasers.