This was one of the first projects that just didn't vibe with me or interest me at all, but I think I just picked too boring of a subject. I just picked an office space because that's where I was sitting at the time. Seeing Stan's demo really peaked my interest however. Reminded me the importance of picking interesting things to draw!

Haha really fun project! I can definitely see the importance of doing longer sessions with these. I think at the start they were very contour heavy. I noticed at some point for a couple of drawings that I really did feel like I was "flowing" through the pose. But then once I noticed it I kind of lost it and went back to seeing contours. I'll have to keep working on more of these to try and get better at switching modes. I noticed some obvious ideas I had wrong too during the demo and hopefully enough other people made the same mistakes during the demo that I can learn from :). Maybe I'll do this set again or try one of the "tool" packs? Cheers, Andrew P.S. I really cant seem to get my lines to come through darkly when I take a photo. I'm using a pixel 8a which I thought had a decent camera but yes everything seems very low contrast. P.P.S when I moved the files over to my phone the order got scrambled so I will leave it to you to figure out the order they were drawn in, haha.

Twas a lot of fun. Shocked how far off I got though :D I guess this one will take some more practice.I think I really messed up the width of the side of the head (ears and right edge of hat) and esspecially the highs. I moved those babies up like a whole inch. Left shoulder I put in kind of by eye and also trying to match it with a point on the scarf I thought I identified well but I guess I was off. Oh well, onto the next, haha.

It cracked me up realizing how much of a visceral reaction I felt when he started erasing so much over half way through :D but all the changes Mr. Prokopenko made were correct so I guess I need to build up that confidence haha :'D

Just a clarifying question. I did the exercise and saw as i made more attempts at the same simplification they improved but simplifying was really a struggle in general. Should I stay on this lesson and really drill it until I'm comfortable or move on to other lessons and just practice this in the background. Really appreciate any advice!

Okay, so that was super fun! I found a Dave Malan drawing that I loved. There are some super clean lines in the face and some very heavy rough lines in the hair and forearms. I definitely need to do more of these. It was really cool identifying things we have learned and seeing how they were likely being considered when the pro was making the original. As always, proportions are off but fortunately,y since the original had the proportions of a child it kind of made mine just seem like an adult, haha. There's a lot I'm happy with in this :) First thing I noticed, too is that I got the value of the lines in the hair quite a bit off. Probably could have pulled out a darker pencil for those lines. I think I was working with a 4b if I remember correctly.

Made a quick little drawing while watching. It was just a little bunny (attached) and I wanted to try and indicate the speed through the line weight. My thought was that I would indicate the parts of the motion which were in tight/stretched/pressure with a think line and the parts that I see as being relaxed were lighter. Not sure i'm 100% happy with it but atleast 70%. If anyone wants to try and make their own running rabbit I'd love to see how you tackle the speed aspect :) Edited a quick overlay of reference and drawing. My only excuse is that I I intentionally gave the front weight bearing paw an big curve to try and cue that its weight bearing. The rest is my generally messing up proportions. I think the ears I should have been able to get right as I realize my angle on the ears are just generally too much.

Reminds me of a cooking quote that "cooking is doing a lot of little things very well." And this video made me see how much that applies to drawing. I actually made a lot of similar big descisions as Stan and we were even given the exact same outline but some very small descisions that Stan makes throughout leaves the final design soooo much better. Great video!

I think some of the line weight decisions I made are somewhat random and could probably be more consistent/thoughtful.

Haha, I did this while on the train yesterday and realised I should have wrote done the instructions. I did the shadow one as instructed, but the other case I think I had in mind the cartoonish contour style. Aside from that I had more fun that I was expecting. I thought I would be a little bored doing a tracing exercise but I had fun! I think I could have pushed the difference between my thick and thin lines more. Cheers, Andrew