A few more sketches trying slowly to get away from references and to think about gesture, volumes in space and shapes design. Not really imaginative drawings yet but hopefully on the way...

My first "sketch from imagination". I was quite happy with the result but after watching the demo I realise I didn't do the exercice at all... just mixed two images together. Let's try with another animal and a better approach!

Tried to do a new insect with the aim of creating a deadly individual insect: it needs to have intelligence, can fly and swim. Did some reasearch of smartest and fastest insects and found cool refs: (1) fringed spider (has amazing eyesight and uses intelligence to hunt spiders 3 times it size in their own web); (2) A beetle that is the fastest swimmer; (3) Horsefly: the fastest flyer. In the end, I clubbed all three to create a spider that can swim and fly - haha - sounds so bad when I am writing it now, but here it goes!

Here’s my assignment of drawing from where after studying a few giraffe calfs and the skeleton of giraffes, I have tried to imagine an awkward position for the calf trying to stand up. Not so happy with the inked version where I tried to use a brush pen

I think crocodiles / alligators are fun. They appear rough on the outside but I love to think they have a surprisingly gentle soul. I attached reference images, some study sketches and one "final" drawing.

My hand sketch

My attempt for the VR Girl. Had a hard time with the ellipses of the thing on the right...

Awesome , what a render !

My first 2 CSI drawings. Took me a lot longer than I thought (as always). Probably way too many details in the second one, not enough simplification and some slightly distorded vertebrae. Thank's and have a nice day everyone!

My CSI boots.

My CSI camel. Thanks and have a nice day everyone!

I got a little too precious with the boots once I tried to simplify the laces.

Hey there ! First off, this assignment really piqued my curiosity and the more I was going along with it the more interesting it got. I am happy with the final result. The first pic is my reference which I started to ignore when it came to drawing the cast shadow - too much reflected light. This first drawing was made with 2H, HB and 2B graphite pencils. The values at the bottom are the ones I used for step 3 (value plan). Near the end, I darkened the background on the lighter side of the egg to make it pop out more. I had a second crack at it with H, HB and 2B pierre noire pencils (last three pics) following the same process and ignoring the reflected light on the cast shadow from my reference. Charcoal is quite unforgiving if you go too dark too soon so it was like walking on...eggs. Thanks @Dorian Iten for this assignment. Any critique/feedback would be much appreciated and I look forward to what lies ahead in this course. Romain

My portrait assignment. I'm quite happy with the final result but I realised too late that the face is too short. So the likeness is not really there. After watching the demo I understood too that I didn't approach this exercice the right way: I focused too much on details and not on general value shapes, whitch was the point of this exercice. Next time... Thanks and have a good day everyone!

My feet assignment, after corrections by having seen Stan's demo (Couldn't find the blocky sketch for the third one, that must be lost in one sketchbook...) Thanks and have a good day everyone!

Might have taken the "only straight lines" a bit to much into some sort of cubism ^^

My two pears. The first one before watching Stan's demo, the second one after. Not very happy with the first one, witch in find too stiff, with boring shapes , not enough contrast. Shadows don't really make feal the volume. After watching Stan's demo, I put more attention on shape design (less on accuracy), contrast, proportion of dark accents in the form shadow and on the background. It looks better to me but I think there is still a problem in the low part of the form shadow, which is weird. Thank's and have a nice day!

Hello everyone, first insect assignment