Pre demo importance and light. I neeeed the demo on this one for sure! Felt clueless, zero confidence.

15 min warmups before every session. Got it! :)

Felt as though I missed the mark at my first attempt so I went at it again. Trying to be less messy as I go and remember to follow through on the "big idea." Made a toy cockroach leg to play with while sketching.

Here are my references and sketches. That was fun. :) That's me in the kitchen figuring out the poses.

Boots were done first, then first snail, and then second snail (with the pencil). The second snail was done after watching Stan's demo and I realize how important it is to *simplify* first. His advice of creating a "container" really, really helped with this. Though, I'm not sure if it's better or worse than my first go :) I did the boots without laying in rough shapes, not sure why I didn't realize to do this at the get-go. Struggling with the lay-in, TBH. I don't have a good sense of scale and perspective just yet, and my confident strokes aren't there yet. Overall, okay with these, though. Will do another pass before moving on to the 2 week challenge.M

After demo attempts. Holy cow laces are no joke! Need to practice those. I found announcing "S CURVE!" or "C CURVE!" out loud to the ether while alone in my workshop helped me focus.

My pre-demo attempts :)

My after demo camel and skull :)

Kept saying "simplify" in my head like you said. Still trying to gain confidence in my lines.

Gonna have to do a lot more shrooms! :)

Here's my AFTER the demo attempt. Much different from my first attempt haha :)

After demo pear :)

Started with another pear this morning then attempted the portrait. Changed surface angle today and tried to slow my hand down (at least on the pear). Now on to Stan's video on how he did it.

Attempted the pears. Played with a few pencils. Much harder than it looks! :) Need to keep practicing the pears then I'll give the portrait a shot before moving on.

Hello! I needed to draw again after being away for a long while (like two decades). Spent most of March practicing again and realized I needed input ("Innpuuuuttt" -Johnny 5). Along comes Proko! Most recent sketch was for my sister-in-law yesterday (birthday gift). Made an attempt at her favorite musician (Billy Corgan) using photo ref (celestion.com). Began with quick sketches in sketchbook/printer paper then tracing paper/lightboard for inking on bristol board. I used mechanical pencils, copics, and a brush pen. I'm very excited for this course. Here we goooo! :)