I choose Dave Malan. I think there is beauty in Simplicity, I love the simple yet elegant style of his line drawings. I am wondering, if the homework is to copy an artist is it okay to take some liberties? I wanted to add eye lashes to the right eye, even though Dave Malan did not.

thank you for the critique.

I did a different drawing. I'll do the tracing exercise later. This is very important and something Ive been working on for a while. Im not at all confident and would love different opinions . thanks.

Your critiques are lessons upon lessons upon lessons! These projects and your comments revealed my reliance on observation and contour married to perfectionism. This is helping to eliminate my internal angst when drawing. Thanks for your eye opening feedback Stan😳 Here is a thank you gift for you Stan- The Dot and the Line; 1965 movie version so you don’t have to read the book😂 https://youtu.be/h0yf7IkWceI I am a blue line…you are gently training me to be a versatile line by choice! A big shout out to Marshall too!

first I tried rabbits ,now chicks. I found the chicks easier

now that they're all up they look a bit basic and unimaginative. I should try again

Im not neat. I definitely need to tame those lines.

Tried the assignment and like my last assignment my issue is the proportions. Other than that, I had fun doing this assignment.

I tried just simplifying the bigger shapes and not including the smaller ones. I'll probably do these again tomorrow.

These little buggers will be haunting my dreams tonight.

I post the new drawing attempt and the photo reference. Is there anyone who can give me some advice?

Helloo, my 3rd attempt at level 2 portrait after seeing the demo. The image looks better on paper than in the scan :P

Definitely excited for this assignment, can I practice doing some fire flowers and Yoshi eggs too? Those have simple ellipses. Even the Koopas have some great elliptical forms. I'm still gunna go back to my previous level 2 assignment and simplify it once more, wanna give it one more shot again.

I wanted to try something that's very different from what I'm used to. Colour. So I tried to draw still life I found the reference online. Used markers. Not yet sure how to use them properly so rendering may be hit and miss really. Attempted to combine a little bit with white pastel pencil, it seems to kind of work. Will experiment further.

Stan, you've clearly explained how we can use only 5 values (3 in the lights and 2 in the shadows) to indicate the form of a single object but, when we are faced with multiple objects that have different local values, how do we use those same 5 values to describe their forms if we want to show their local value differences?

I keep finding my erasers melt the paint off of drawing pencils. It happened with all brands of erasers, the last offenders were prismacolors magic rub erasers . Anyone have good tips on how to clean them efficiently?

My attempt at the portrait. I wanted to push some shapes to create the details with sticking to flat values. Never tried anything like this before (well except for the pears). Any feed back? Also included a in progress picture.

My 1st pear vs my 5th. So happy with my progress! Please critique the 5th one. Thank you!

I feel like my block in turned into mush in the face.

this took me almost 45min. I thought it was a great exercise. Keeping t escapes angular helped me not to get lost while I was concentrating on the details.