Hi Guys, I started doing the head boxes, but got stuck on number three. I want to finish practicing all 19 before I watch the critiques. I have some practice drawing portraits, but I never put it in a 3D way like this project. I guess that is why I struggled so far, I have no idea what points to use as the sides. I made five attempts at number three so far, and they all turned out to be different, anyone willing to check my mistakes and help would be much appreciated! edit: I am particularly not sure if the bottom plane of the cube is visible in number three. I decided to add a couple block ins I did before, for the ones who are curious ;) (they are not related to this project, just to show what I can. Comparing it to how much I struggled with this project.)

im a digital artist with almost no understanding of fundamentals of art. considering how long ive been drawing despite lacking like all skill in traditional art, i thought, "what could possibly go wrong?" behold. my actual lack of skill when not making easy art on the computer tried it a few times as i figure out what i was doing wrong. but also proof that people who can make cool pretty stuff with a computer can have a completely different "skill level" when you give them a paper and pencil. to be fair to myself i do as of right now only have a crappy lead pencil. and i have practically NEVER done this before my main issue is my lines. i cant seem to figure out how to change my erratic and too dark line work, even if it shouldnt be that hard. i tried a few times since i know what to do, but habit is hard to break time to do this several more times with many different objects

If you overlap the images, the mistakes are clearly visible. Practice, practice, practice.

Level 2 attempt after watching the demo…not sure if I went too far with structure to detriment of gesture (?)

Here is my attempt at the simplification project for level 2. Please feel free to give feedback or critique what I can do better! :D

Not quite exact. But, I like it.

All week i've been exploring this by drawing more head shots. its a really fun form of problem solving. I am often asking myself, "Am i measuring enough? Should i measure more?" All in all though its very fun! I am loving drawing like this. I try to get one layin done a day.

Great video Stan! I've been practising block-ins more lately and this video helps a lot. I haven't tried to self criticize with any of these, but I will start doing that from now on.

Did another one of the Musketeer guy and I think I did better then my first attempt then I tried to do one of a different portrait all together and well I defiantly need more practice. This is easily the hardest project so far for me lol but any feedback would be great

This assignment really pushed me. I know my portrait isn’t entirely accurate, I could see some mistakes (such as the forehead being too short), but I wasn’t sure how to go back without messing up the other proportions. I guess it’s all part of the learning process. Feel free to critique or comment!

Hi guys, Here is mine! done on a A3 size newsprint paper, I'm not sure about the size Stan recommended, but I think it is bigger than A3. Although I didn't spend too much time on the smaller shapes (face) I still found it difficult to work on it, so I might go even bigger than this. I tried to self critique with Krita, but I couldn't get it to work (burn layer mode on the drawing and put that one on top of the reference). Any help with that would be much appreciated! On a quick note, it seems that the body is either too high up or too big.

hi guys, everytime they mentioned that other artist (Alexander) I tried to find them, but couldn't. especially after seeing one of their artworks, I want to see more, so anyone who can help me find him/her?

Hello my name is max, I welcome all types of critiques and criticisms to help me improve. The left pear is before watching the demo and the right pear is following along with this video.

first assignment done! any feedback is much appreciated 

Hi guys, These are my simple animal portraits. I started with the three references and then did a few other animals. I wasn't sure if I was following the intended practice or not, because I feel like I can't simplify things. There just needs to be some kind of detail in order to make it look like the same subject. I did draw the monkeys in this video to get a better idea, and then made another attempt at a cat.

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