That's surrealism. I love your lines.

I tried and tried and these are the last pages. It was fun to compare with the first ones and see the improvement. The hippo still does not want to be my friend. though.

After the master study of Dave Malan I wanted to see how far I would come on my own with nice lines, drawing from a photo. In my head it was much better than it actually turned out. But I’m happy with the exercise.

Hello all! Here is what I did this week. The dancers are by Degas, the profile portrait by Dave Malan, the red woman by Adriaen van de Velde, the fee and horse by Claire Wending, and the two nudes by Giorgos Sikeliotis. I was satisfied more or less with each one, but one sees what a long way I have to go, when they are brought in direct comparison to the original. I think I will do more studies in the next days and post them here,

I went with a horse. First did some studies from photos, then tried without reference to find some sort of character. But wasn't quite satisfied with that so got inspired by T.S. Sullivant's horses, and wanted to try exaggerating some of the features and give it also a bit of an attitude. I'm quite happy how it turned out. :3

1. Hierarchy - I went a little modest with the contrast in line weight. 2. Light Direction - Then I tried to push it a little. 3. Light Direction Imagination - A little more. 4. Observation - I like that graphic look of the plant, but it may not be the ideal decision every time.

My rhinos arrived in time. My sketch from observation has to be redone tomorrow...

Look at this little guy <3 I can't be more happy with this course, I don't necessarily draw better (maybe I got a little better so far), but it's the way I approach drawing now, everything is so much more interesting.

Level 1 student tries - a lot of lost lines and fun the some relaxed pigs!

Here's my submission. I made 2 attempts at the full-page sketch from imagination. I'm not sure If this is what the assignment required, were we supposed to stylise and exaggerate our subject?