First I attached my zero point perspective drawing from the prior lesson. It was a drawing of the Proko skull I got as a christmas gift. Then I tilted it, used it as reference and tried to use structure to reproduce it. After some iterations I did the skulls without reference and used the skull only to control my work afterwards. Palpable progress 😍

I got my strathmore and I feel I am improving. So yes, there is a huge difference between smooth newsprint and „smooth“ newsprint. I feel like they look better in real than on the photo. On the photo I feel I am going too hard on the edges.

It‘s a big step to put yourself out there, Rachel. I tip my hat to you.

So, wowza, really enjoyed the course and tried to draw along as much as possible. I just finished Stan's Anatomy course and wanted to put my new knowledge to work with a medium I havent used before: Charcoal on newsprint. I really struggled in the beginning. I have the feeling that your lines are so much smoother (softer edges) but also that you really can make them thin with hard edges whenever you need. I didn‘t have that edge control. Although I compared in the videos how your pencil tip looked and it was pretty the same as mine. I used the Conte a Paris HB and a no name smooth newsprint because the strathmore newsprint took forever to be delivered. It will arrive in end of May and I will try again if it was the paper that made my edge control so bad. Maybe you can go even more into depth regarding the grip of the pencil and how you achieve such a great edge control. Weirdly enough, at the end I always struggled with what seemed to be little grains in the pencil that stopped me from having a smooth flow on the paper. At some point it happened so often, that I wanted to pull out my hair out of desperation. Anyways, I did more than the drawings here, but the upload is limited to 20 photos, and I had more than thirty. My best ones are the last ones. Happy for any kind of insights. Your work is really stunning. I will go back to do many lines many times :).

While drawing this I was in airplane mode. 🥸

From left to right: Above right, below front, above left, above left again, below right, above right, below left, above right, above left aaand i feel like abovish left. 😅

Here is my most recent stuff, as well as the assignment work I posted in the previous video which is a few days old, more carefully done, yet perhaps less confident as I am noticing mistakes. If anyone else is having trouble with intuiting perpendicular angles from all sort of viewer positions like I am, the transparent forms found on Amazon are a lifesaver - you can look through them to see the way axes progress in any type of rotation or tilt.

Was a fun exercise! I quickly sketched those freehand (except the one horizon line) and repeated the axes like a mantra. That way I got faster and was even reminded on my elementary school math lessons :). Wonderful!

Late again, but I am catching up :). I wanted to use a little bit the freedom I was given, since the given puzzles were always from one perspective only. So I put in some cats. There is one cat though that should appear on the assignment puzzles so I guess a little mistake happened on your end Marshall :D. Just kidding. Great exercise!

I know, I am too late. I wanted to upload anyways. I did the Proko Skull in Ortho. I got it as a present for christmas :)