Sup, I have a hard time with trying to find the rhythms of the arms when I'm drawing. Could anyone help me on how to find the rhythms of that. Another problem I have is how to draw the neck on my figures without them looking awkward or weird. Also could someone help spot my proportional errors that I've over looked, Thanks.

I started by drawing heads and then torsos. 

I continue to do exercises from previous courses while pursuing new ones. So here are some new Line Master Studies drawings. It is a work of the great Charles Dana Gibson, A Widow An Her Friends and a drawing of Aaron Blaise (fabulous animal designer).

I create lines through the use of rhythmic movement. I did a lot but here are good ones to upload, these are mine.

Thank you for that presentation. So helpful.

Some from memory

The How to Draw Interesting shapes demo is just awesome. Combining the quality of lines and shapes and thinking about varying them… Wow. Not easy to make, but so instructive. Thanks to the whole Proko team and of course Mr Proko.     Dynamic Shapes   I couldn’t wait to draw all these seals, so I cheated and started with Dynamic Shapes rather than Measure Proportions. I’ll come back to it right back.   I drew on both sides of the drawing paper and unfortunately taking the pictures I realized that we see the drawing at the back. The result is not very clean. Sorry.   Each drawings is numbered according to the order of the reference photos.

I revisited this challenge before moving on, and went for the skull by Jeff Watts this time. I felt that this turned out better than my last attempt, and I think it was a good idea to choose a simpler subject to study.

Hmm. It was really hard to get it click. I am not sure, my brain just resists doing that on animals for uknown reason.

Here we go! I really struggled with the hippo but in the end I think he was the most successful. I'm now going to watch the critiques and go back and do the 5 or 10 extras. I've included my preliminary sketches and ideation in black. The finished pieces are the red ones.

Man, this was a lot of fun! I can already see great improvements to the way I think about shapes, and things that I previously just left to chance are more carefully considered. This course is amazing!

Simple animal portraits, Level 2

Simple Animal Portraits, Level 1

Level 1, part 1 of the CSI assignment. I'll do the shoes next. Feedback greatly appreciated!

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.

I am not sure if I approached this one correctly, but I felt that compared to the snail this image was several degrees harder to approach. I have not watched Stan's demo yet, so it will be very interesting to see how he did it. While my drawing is passable, I think I failed quite hard with the CSI approach - the amount of detail was simply too overwhelming for me, so I found it hard to simplify. It will be interesting to watch the demo video, to hopefully get an idea about how to think in cases like this.

The laces were really challenging my patience here :D

Here are my two line weight approaches, plus a third approach that is more of a value exercise of just using the shadow shapes that I learned from James Gurney's blog. The shadow shapes were so strong on this photo, that I thought it would be fun to try. I've seen Stan do the same thing when working in multiple values, but he doesn't go in with the darkest value first. He does the shadow shape with a dark value but then goes into the shadow shape with the darkest value to develop it. I found this one very relaxing.

I did a master study of one of Chris Samnee's Batober sketches. I'll do a few more, but this will get me started.

Here is my attempt at the first level one project, decided to find a different fruit picture than the one in the video so I wasn’t tempted to just copy the video. Proportions aren’t quite right on mine and I think there needs to be better distinction between the values. Any feedback is welcomed :)