Level 2 practice. I tended to struggle with twisted shapes and showing depth (e.g. the body bending away).

Both doghouse and complex building assignments were very challenging for me. The buildings I drew first several times did not look good. Some things (proportion, balance, rotation, perspective) were always off. For the complex building, I did not feel like I would ever get it right, so I was drawing a bunch of drafts on many sheets of scratch paper. When I unexpectedly drew a building that could work, it was drawn on water-damaged scratch paper. 

I tried to do Level 1 in the difficulty knob, but drawing an imaginary character was too difficult for me, and I ended up drawing a yoga pose out of my memory, which was more comfortable for me as I like yoga. But I tried to get out of my comfort zone by drawing this little guy trying to kick and punch for my second attempt to do the Level 1 practice. It was challenging to draw foreshortened limbs, but it was a fun exercise.

Cross contour helped me think and see the reference object 3 dimensional and made me aware of plane changes. I had some difficulties figuring out plane changes in some parts, especially the flippers of sea lions.

As watching the demo and critique videos, I practiced more blobs. I am slowing improving in finding right box rotations, but it takes me several trial and errors before I got it right. So when finally I found the rotations and positions of the boxes, they are often shifted from original blobs.

Drawing blobs helped figuring out rotations of boxes for me and made it fun! I struggled with the second picture in figuing out the rotation of the pelvis box.

This assignment was difficult for me. I followed Stan's instructions, but the ellipses I drew always ended up looking warped.

It took me very long to draw each hand. I struggled with getting right rotations of boxes and determining which directions the lines are converging.

While watching the Level 2 demo and Critique videos, I tried the Level 2 project. When I see these pictures, I notice that they look less three-dimensional than how they look on paper. 

My first batch of Level 1 practice. I overlayed drawings using PowerPoint. I had difficulty in capturing right angles of the direction of the faces in many pictures.