I spread some over the course of two days. Not sure if we are supposed to all 30 of them? I redid the first four. What I attached is the ones I am happy with. I had a pretty fun time doing these. I wonder if I did them correctly. I know in the video Stan mentions that gesture is not contour, but I feel like I do not really understand the difference, since I feel like I copied the contour of the seals. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

I know my lines are a bit light, but I did not want to go to hard in case I wanted to erase. Did not really enjoy this project it was pretty tedious. I think maybe I may have cheated a bit. In the beginning I was using his demo guideline in this video where he explains his thought process and starts drawing the blue and red lines for measurements. The project was just a bit difficult because I honestly did not know where to start. Then seeing all the guidelines and measurements he made I just thought were a bit too much for me to follow. The lay in itself I worked the day before and spent maybe a good 1.5 hours or more trying to make sure everything would fall in the proper space, and I could probably say I still have mistakes on the proportions. At the end I just became frustrated and started filling in the eyes and the nostrils.

I have attached my references. Sort of guilty of just rushing these because they were very frustrating to me. I was not sure If I was just supposed to draw the face or the whole animal. I have watched the demo and critiques already. Going to try and redo them. Not really happy how these came out.

Feel like the hand was just tough for me I had to do it three times the first time around and decided to just go with my first because the other two were just not coming out the way I wanted them to. The pencil drawings are the first attempts. I feel like after watching the video demo and critiques I missed the point of the assignment, so I redid them. The red pencil drawings are the 2 attempts. I tried this time to keep a more lose approach and not worry so much about proportion. You can see I cared a lot about proportion given I had to use two pages for the VR girl on my first attempt.

So, these were before the demo and critique. Honestly, I don't think I'm going to be redoing the boots again lol the shoelaces were really difficult. I saw the demo already and saw his approach to just drawing a sort "box" to incase the boots in. I think I am going be using that technique from here on out. Any feedback is welcome I'm not sure if my other posts have gotten feedback because I don't know if there is a notification that goes off if one is given feedback.

SNAIL: I was unsure if adding lines to the biggest section of the snail part to create surfaces as in the pear exercise makes sense here. BOOTS: I felt confident about the lines i drew but not about the level of detail. Are the boots too simple? Thank you.

so, I did another attempt at the pair after watching the demo and critique video. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Tried doing the pair number 3. It is really difficult for me to see where a dark halftone would be. I see some of them, but I was not sure if I could just add them in without having to create them just using straight lines. I don't if that made sense. Would love some feedback.

I've been drawing off and on my entire life, and I've always wanted to improve my skills. I've never completed a fundamentals course, and lately I often find myself "lost" on how to improve or fix issues I see in my art, so hoping this course will bridge those gaps. Looking forward to completing this class! I made some doodles using all the tools in my arsenal to get started (including digital).