Excited for this course. Could we get jpegs or pdfs of the images in the lessons?

These really made me think about the tilt of the head and the placement of the features. My line quality, well, I need to work on it.

bonnieblue 3h Hi y'all. HELP PLEASE. So I thought I'd try the portrait measuring thing again. Didn't go well at all the first million tries, but here we go again. Got to get this measuring thing down. What do you do w/ a pict that nothing lines up throughout? I can't find a unit of measure, on this guy, that will go everywhere like Stan did in his examples. Can any of you? Also, it was unclear in the video, to me anyway, how to put all these measurements onto paper. I'm using a big piece of paper like he said & a letter size reference. I understand not to do the sight size. Got that. What is Stan's method even called? YouTube might help if I knew what it's called Wish there were a ton of these demos. Thank y'all so much

Dürer, a pillow in ink. I made a mess of it. Probably not the best subject for me to tackle at this stage but it was an interesting exercise.

I'm not sure I got as dynamic as I could have, and I still struggle to keep my line control from getting scratchy. I had fun with it though.

I'm not sure I did this assignment right. I wanted to explore making a still pose more dynamic by creating diagonal peaks. I found that idea really interesting and worked on it, but as I see what others here have done, I think maybe I was supposed to work more on flow...

After five hours, I felt like my lines and brain were turning into mush. I see I made some errors but I am happy, this is the closest I have ever come to getting a decent drawing using this method. Thanks Proko!

This took about two hours, but I think I'm starting to get it. Measuring is hard, I need a lot of practice for it to be more intuitive.

It took about two hours, but I think I'm starting to get a feel for it...

Wow, you guys are really good! This was impressive!

Attempt to draw T-Rexes from imagination. Blue sketches were drawn from observation at the beginning. Btw I love the Jurassic series for so many years, eventually I get done with a dinosaurs sketch from imagination. Not one ,but three. It was a challenge.

Hey, my English is not that good. So I tried to translate my text using 'ChatGPT'. Hope it makes some sense :) I've only done the beginner tasks so far, but I found the advanced task so interesting that I wanted to try it out at least once. For the first image, I chose a goldfish. It looks like I dressed the fish in pieces of cloth. I was very lost in the design process and much of what I drew is quite illogical, but I had a lot of fun during the process. I also tried some other animals. With the otter (second picture) I tried to pay more attention to creating a nice overall picture and to draw my lines more clearly. After all the attempts, I realized that I became more relaxed while drawing. The mouse is my last drawing. Before I started looking for reference pictures, I had a clear idea that the mouse should be an "adventure" or at least fit into that theme. When I made a sketch with a mouse with one eye closed, I immediately had the association with the character "Guts" from the manga series "Berserk" by the artist "Kentaro Miura" (an absolutely outstanding manga! Unfortunately, I cannot recommend it without reservations because its dark and explicit content traumatized me a bit at the time. But from my point of view, if you can handle it, it's the best manga for "Dark Fantasy" genre.) Although I know that many proportions are not correct, I am surprised how much I like the result. I see good progress in my work and understand how practicing with the previous drawings affects my current skills. It is very rewarding and motivating for me to notice this. Please write your critiques. I am very grateful for your opinions.

So much fun! I still need to work on my lines, but I had fun.

My line quality needs work, but this was a lot of fun to do!

So insightful, thanks!

Inspired by Proko!

When you can't decide on Level 1 or Level 2. I thought it might be fun to try it on gray paper. Everyone's work is inspiring! Happy to be learning with you all!

Here is my 5th or 6th attempt at the simplified portrait. Lost count lol. This was a very difficult task. It’s amazing how easy it is to mess up proportions and the general feel of a portrait using straight lines, sharp edges, and 5 values.