Drawing Exercises

How can i break a habit of tilting my paper sideways when drawing? I started doing that when I learned cursive

I'm an "artist". I'm not very good but I'm learning. I've alwasy tilted my paper sideways ever since I learned to write in cursive. Its hard for me to draw with my paper straight, but when I tilt my paper, my drawing turns out lopsided! How do I break this habit?

Public Comments

1. tape the paper
2. Tape the paper to the desk and practice doing it that way.
3. They say that true artist always turn the paper.....well...that's what my art teacher told me!!!...she could have been a nut job though!!!
4. Some people do a lot better by continuing what they do best. I would not try to break that habit.
5. Don't break that habit. Just keep practicing and you'll be one of the best with a different style of drawing. C'mon everybody wants to be unique.
6. You could try working with an easel. When drawing on a flat surface your already at a disadvantage because your looking at your drawing on an angle. Depending on what your doing it usually has a tenancy to make people draw things taller and thinner then they had intended. Meanwhile, it also depends on what your working on, when doing rough drawings I work vertically on a tilted surface, ether and easel, drafting table or animation desk. and when I do cleaner more precise drawings I work on an animation desk so I can rotate the paper. Everybody's hand has a certain what it likes to go , for me it's left to right and upwards, so I'll tilt my paper what ever way I need to so that I can draw the lines in that direction- even if I'm drawing upside down. In the end what ever gets the job done is fine.