My first attempt. It looks good in a general sense, but it feels stiff some reason. Any advice is welcome.

I really struggled with this one. I kept on pitching at it but never felt like I was doing a good job of replicating someone else's lines. The Karl Kosinski one at the end is unfinished- I tried using a brush pen and ran out of ink!

This assignment was easily the most challenging for me so far. Definitely want to tackle a lot more references before moving on.

Some more two value studies, which is the theme this week. BTW, I'll be leading a drawing group on two value studies at the Combat Art Studio at the National Museum of the Marine Corps at Quantico VA on 9 Dec at 10:00 am. It's open to the public and free. If you are in the DC area and want to join us, the more the merrier.

My pencil sharpener broke so I ended up doing these with a sharpie. I'll get a new sharpener or make a sanding block and try again tomorrow. Lots of room for growth on these, but I like this approach. I'm going to be doing more these with my drawing group via Zoom on Sunday, December 3rd. If anyone wants to join us, DM me.

My attempt at the assignment, but something seems really off, i can't point my finger on what

That's awesome! Great job!

I'd love to try and join a call sometime, but I have some catching up to do. I can't make this Sunday work regardless. Hope I can maybe join in the future! I'll keep an eye out for your posts in case it works out sometime.

Hello. It's my first upload my drawing here. I wanted to have a job related with drawing 20 years ago but I lost my confident so I gave up. Even though I'm having a different job, drawing is still my kind of hobby so I want to be good at it. I already had a lot of trying and giving up many times before but I'll try again and be patient to keep going. It was really hard for me to draw lesser dark value and lesser white value. But it was interesting experience. I hope I can get advice about the drawing. Thanks.

Traced the lines off my screen as I didn't have a printer on hand. I went for the challenge of moving the light source. I moved it higher up. But I dove into it way too fast. Somewhere half way through I felt like I needed more info so I opened up the real photo and realised I understood some shapes incorrectly. Like the eye area is popped outwards. I might try this again but will try to find a printer. Need to think it through a bit more before jumping in.

2 value sketch from this morning.

My interpretation of 2 Weeks Challange: First part As I draw almost every day, I added an element of my own to make the exercise more challenging. I love flowers, so I chose to draw a flower every day from a small book of beautiful photos of flowers named, «Flower Colur Guide» edited by Phaidon. I dated each drawing for two weeks. I first used C, S and I lines. I made a first passage in pencil 4H and then in 2B. I did not erase the lines of the first passage. So we often see them in the background. As I continued this course, I learned new concepts (Line Weight, type line, etc.). I then had the idea to take again, in a second time, the 14 drawings below and to realize them in ink while trying to apply the concepts presented in the more advanced Lines course. I am now in the Shape section and I am working on Simple Animal Project and on inking the drawings below (which I will present in a future post). I hope you have as much fun doing these exercises as I do.

Quick study from this morning.

Some seal gestures.

Hokay, so this one was NOT in my comfort zone, but I loved it. It's a great feeling to be given a new and useful approach to drawing. I'm going to have to lean into this one a bit before it feels natural, but I'm happy with what I learned with this first one.

Here is a daily exercise from me.

Studying characters from LoTR/Hobbit movies.

During today's drawing I learned something that helped explaining why many of my drawings end up feeling stiff - especially when clothes are involved. I realized that often even when I got a decent, dynamic pose, I end up ruining the gesture by drawing clothes that do not conform to the motion that I want to convey. In this case I was on the verge of doing the same thing, but luckily caught myself in the sketch stage. In the attached image is the before and after version of Little Red Hood. The idea was to make her body twisting, with her head continuing the motion (as shown with the rough shapes to the right). However, when I added her skirt I just left it hanging straight down with her legs standing straight together (left image). This killed the motion, and something felt really off because of it. Normally I just shrug and move on to refined line art and shading, but this time something clicked. I corrected the skirt so that it followed the pose more closely, and I feel that the new result (middle one) works much better.