I tried to be loose with my approach for this project so that it could help me push the shape design to an almost breaking point to help me avoid stiffness and aim for dynamism instead. Looking back I definitely could've been a lot looser with my sketches so as to allow the lines to be flowier and really exaggerate the shapes.

This is my drawing of the musketeer. I took extensive amounts of measurements and would constantly compare my drawing with the photo. But when it came time to overlay my drawing on the photo I realized that everything was thrown off. The hat didn’t have the proper proportions and I had also placed it a little bit lowered than it needed. As a result, it threw off the entire drawing by causing the face and shoulder details to be placed lower than they should have been and skewing towards the left side. This made me realize that before I move on to adding details, it’s a good idea to walk away from my drawing for a bit and come back with fresh eyes so I can retake measurements and compare my drawing to the photo to see if I can spot areas that may look or feel wrong and adjust them accordingly.

This one was really fun. I stayed with the hippo so far, but might do the other animals as well.

Level 2 assignment. There are so many possibilities about lions to explore, I just took a small portion. Critiques free.

Identifying a weakness is crucial in overcoming it. Red- Level 1 Blue - Level 2

Finally finished the rhinos for the project!

What a fun assignment! I love history and dogs. So i wanted to create a "royalty" portrait of a prussian general basset hound :). Did some studies of dogs and pike helmets. Plus some iterations of the portrait.

Exactly the project I need to do. One of my drawing goals is to produce the kinds of concepts that I want to sculpt. Keep putting this off, but need to start somewhere. Boar exploration, last idea of first page reminded me of pitbulls. Pushed that a bit, but lost the thing I liked about the simpler base. Finished with Staedtler leadholder and mechanical on paper

This is my sketch for the Level 2 assignment. Not only was it fun to do but it was also fun to see all of the submissions! The creature I choose was called a flying Gecko and after stumbling upon it I went straight to sketching and gathering helpful references of the gecko. I had done lots of sketches but I choose to condense it in order to show my process a lot smoother.

Tried to keep things simple and use more loose gestural lines. I may have gotten sucked into the detail too much on the VR girl. Let me know what you guys think.

Hey all! Here’s my assignment. I definitely struggled with the hand proportion, especially the pointer finger and the pinky, but I did my best. I spent a lot of time on the VR girl, but I feel like I didn’t simplify enough and mainly just copied. Any advice, comments, or critiques would be much appreciated!

These are my level 1 sketches. It was a fun assignment but I think I was being too careful. I wanted a nice balance between clarity and exploring lines. Now that I look back I think I should've prioritize exploring lines since these are sketches that can be cleaned up later on.

Here are the level 2 drawings. After finishing the drawings and watching the demo I realized I was too focused on wanting accurate proportions instead of focusing on developing confident lines. Hopefully the quality of the lines still look confident, but overall this was a very fun project!

Hi everyone! Here is my work for this assignment. I did this one digitally. I’m not sure if I simplified enough. I might need to try a new brush, as the lines all seem a bit too similar. Not enough variation. I struggled a bit with the big curves of the skeleton captain’s hat. I had to split those lines to make them accurate.

Finally tried the last of part 2. Noticed that some lines continue through the image, such as the jawline to the base of the hat. Other assignment images repeated for convenience.

These are my level 1 drawings. I had fun drawing them and using only CSI lines which definitely helped me in making every single line intentional and clean!

These Mario mushrooms are very fun to draw! Especially the squashed and stretched ones.

Here is my first attempt at the portrait drawing before watching the demo and my second attempt after watching the demo. One of the many helpful takeaways I got from the demo was to show plane changes to indicate form and direction while shading. So I did my best to show that in my second portrait attempt.

This is my attempt at the project. It took a lot of trial and error of other references to get used to finding sharp edges and values. The demo definitely helped in highlighting and correcting aspects that I would struggle in!