Some 30 second drawings from today. I've done a lot of gesture drawing over the past 6 months, mostly digitally but also some in person figure drawing sessions. I feel I'm still struggling a lot. I think I struggle with picking the important parts of a pose in such a short amount of time, so I end up just focusing on the same things regardless of the pose. I think I struggle with showing tilt and lean with so few lines, this is probably also exacerbated by the previous problem, I can't find the important part of the pose that will show the tilt or lean. I might also still be focusing too much on contour. I've tried sometimes to just not focus my eyes and look more at the whole of the pose, or focus on the center/inside of the body, and sometimes it might be helping? It's hard to tell. Do you think I'm focusing too much on contour on these?

@Stan Prokopenko You mention that you try to understand how strokes were made, in what direction, how the drawing tool was held and such. How do we do studies of images where that is no longer clearly apparent? For example if I want to study from someone who works digitally, is that less suited to copying in an analogue medium because the techniques used might not be replicapble? So in other words: At what point does a reference become less suitable for an exercise like this? Or is there no such thing? Is it just about taking what we like and trying to replicate it in our chosen medium and then move on?

Hi Class! Master line project. I learned from DS Delux from Hungary. I love his animal drawings. The darker lines draw my attention first to the turtles head and front fins, and leads my eyes down the turtles back. I like how the searching lines are left within the sketch, but are softer and not attract too much attention. The searching lines also helped in my own sketch of the master turtle.

I'm lacking pretty much of time currently, so I feel free to post an attempt of a Master Study I drew a while ago. Leonardo would not have been pleased, since I was using a pencil (...).

It’s a Sunday morning in 1996. Pop tarts are in the toaster. You’re gonna stay in your pajamas all day. Life is good. Fun little throwback to show line weight in foreground, middle, and back ground. Line quality seems off and I feel like it could be better. I find it difficult to know when and how to make heavier ‘shadow’ lines without making them seem all bumpy and ugly looking

Not going to lie; this was hard. The laces threw me for a loop. So imma hit the demo and see where I went wrong. Side note found a new mortal enemy..... drawing laces. Happy drawing, everyone :D.

Good day! I noticed the vid just yesterday, i guess i had notifications off... But this is something I am constantly working on. I used to be a fulltime tattooartist, so this is something I have tried to push from day 1. 🙈 At the moment, I am trying to work as parttime tattooer in the "new-school" style which has huuge amount of different lineweights, some colored lines, some huge black ones. Here's some I have been working on lately and studied +photos of the aquarium reference (drew with pencil at the location, added colors and lights at home): But still, I try to get time and do the rhino ASAP. Thanks for looking, happy spring to ya'll! ☀️☀️☀️

Any suggestions for improvement?

I did these two. First one on the left without video and right one alongside this video. Hard to nail proper pencils with a digital brush, but the lesson is learned regardless.

Gave this a go. I feel like I didn't get the values correct, and the defining lines between each value is too harsh. I''ll give it another go and compare!

First time trying lvl 2 but this exercise is exactly what I wish to learn! Love the invitation to simplify and search. Excited to learn how to get the images in my head onto the paper! This feels like an excellent first step. Ready for more!

Hi guys! My attempt at sketching from imagination! Unfortunately I lost the layer with the rough sketches :( (I don't know how). I did simple volume/ shape drawings of the regular birbs, and then tried to get the flow of the wings. the blue bird was used so I could better get to imagine the pose of the drawing. I wanted to draw the Glaucus atlanticus, but I think I will attempt that one later. I'm quite interested to see the critiques.

Hi guys! My attempt at these three, I liked this one, it felt less like I had to 'force' myself to draw good and just have more fun instead.

I was able worried I wasn't gonna be able to do this well but I think I did decent, but I felt like I was unsure of the values still.

Although I'm starting from 0, I tried my hand with the second challenge as well. I may try to make it up for the model in the future when I've improved by drawing him again. A tip: I've found that it's best to first draw the outline using my lightest pencil (B), then filling out the darkest bits (here: most of the hair and the nose holes, using a 4B in my case), and then moving again from the lightest to the darkest parts. That way, I get a feeling for what the different shades of black are going be as I keep drawing, so I can adjust on the fly.

As you may already be able to tell, I am in need of serious improvement on my 2 minute gesture drawing, but I am not entirely sure what to change. If you can help, I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

Hi guys. So I decided to give this one another go, the second one (white bg) was 10 months ago. This feels like a big improvement, yet I feel like I'm completely lost, it feels like this is too much for me. Any feedback would be really helpful and much appreciated.

Day 239: This is what I got after watching the demo for the camel. I am going to do the skull on my own tomorrow then watch the rest of the demo

Hi guys! I did both levels yesterday and today (ignore the dates), before watching the demo's today. I know I'm unfortunately too late for the critiques :( Not looking for any help necessarily, but anything is welcome.

and finally the skull