Stan, thank you so much for creating this video. This is honestly amazing that you're being attentive to people's struggles and put your time to talk about such topics. I think this is especially important for basics course, as beginners have the toughest artistic battles both in their hands and in their minds. We really appreciate you caring for us. This is always so heart-warming to see teachers who are gentle and understanding towards beginners... It also helped me better understand what you really mean by level 2 student. "Have an experience with course topics, not necessarily advanced experience" is exactly about me, and I thought I was level 1 student! "When you have the knowledge, but can't draw it right" is also extremely about me!! I did have another basics and perspective course in the past, even anatomy one. So I have a knowledge, but didn't practice enough outside of course little homework, so I felt like I shouldn't dare to attempt level 2 projects, since my skill isn't "enough" yet Your video helped me understand that I was wrong, and should challenge myself more already! Just the fact I can't do it right doesn't mean I shouldn't attempt it — on the contrary! Such a simple idea to be honest, and yet it was missing from my brain lol. I will attempt previous level 2 assignments now, and will attempt new ones as they come. Again, can't express enough how thankful I'm to you for creating this video. Love you, no homo.

The thought that I could be a lil' bit messy and correct myself on top of the previous lines instead of constantly erasing was honestly liberating. I might've gone too dark to what's supposed to be a sketch, but it was fun!

@Stan Prokopenko sorry, but what's the deadline to be included in the critique? I think it's missing from both level assignments description.

Day 14 Last day of challenge and first day of trying to quit smoking lol — it made me extremely frustrated and impatient, object after object I started and erased, unable to focus After a little meltdown I gave up and just started freehanding boxes in perspective. And then cutting off shapes inside them, in freehand perspective as well. I finally...calmed down There's something relaxing in how precise perspective is — once you know the theory, you've got all the answers, you only need to nail down the execution. Which isn' ideal on my part but whatever i'm not in my best shape rn as you might've guessed :D

Day 13 A heater drawn from observation, but I tried to construct it without looking much

Day 12: A character and map icon from Hollow Knight game

Day 11/14 - wall lamp drawing the lamp could be a pretty good warmup excercise, similar to the toadstool exercise that Stan showed us. This lamp is comprised of multiple circles of different diameter - you can add elliptical or circular decorations to the lamp for more practice.

Day 12-14-239 Just tried the gas pump again. I think the left side is ok but the right side needs work I'll try again tomorrow.

Day 12. Is it really day 12 already? Time surely flies. Brought out my lil anvil today, but it was pretty lackluster so I added a ring for additional challenge. Yup, that's the anvil that my clown budget has allowed me to get, but I like it! My drawing of it had a little elongation incident... :)

That was fun! 10/14

Day 11: We took a train trip today. I tried drawing the view from my seat (omitting the other passengers). The lines are wobblier than usual as the train would sway and bump as we traveled.

Day 11: Puss in Boots! Drawn from poster reference

Day 10 sketch from photo Definitely rushed it too much I also keep posting in the wrong place lol

Day 9 Sketched empty candy box and my earphones

Day 8: step ladder I noticed that I sketch too slowly. Wanted to see whether I will be able to capture the essentials of a complex object and draw it recognizable, while not wasting more than 15-20 min. It looks a bit whacky of course, and some proportions aren't right. But it is a ladder! And it's accurate enough to be placed in some kind of background, outside of main picture's focus. So I'm more or less satisfied. I would make steps a bit thinner though, and fix the perspective of top step

Expected boots to be harder, but nah, snail is far harder to simplify! It's far too organic compared to boots. Although laces were too wild, to be honest :D Currently I struggle most with lay-in phase. I'm not sure how the process should go and try different things all at once. First I try to construct the object from simpler shapes (but fail). Next I try to measure the basics proportions, e.g. how many times the width of the boot can fit its height or the length from heel to toe. Breaking up the object in halves, thirds and forths helps too. Next I start drawing major contours constantly comparing curret shape I'm drawing with shapes/contours around it. I'm probably doing something right, but I'm not sure what and how it should be done exactly. Hope the demo will make it clear!

Day 7: an ukulele Halfway through!

Day 6 Sketch done from photo I'm not sure I should freely share, I didn't ask the permission ahaha Avoided face features since I really don't know how to do them, so I focused on everything else. And yeah head is slightly tilted, it's intentional Almost skipped this day. Didn't have enough free time and didn't have enough mental energy, I thought. But nah, forcing yourself to draw at least a little is almost always possible and always a good choice

Day 5 A layout study done from eerie pic I took a year ago I only now realised that I was drawing from cropped version of original picture lol. Like, a portion of top, sides and bottom wasn't visible for me? Or maybe it was just zoomed in. Idk

Day 4 Some tall buildings from real life. Didn't use a ruler or anything for perspective, just eyeballed it (but evidently, got too impatient with balconies. Some of them were weirdly angular and didn't align with the building itself). Also, right building is far too wide than it should be But I'm still happy to draw daily, something different each day. I didn't have a habit of daily drawing before, and turns out, the secret of developing is that easy — just draw, whatever, it doesn't need to be inspiring or good looking. I might not feel good about drawings yet, but I do feel good about finiishing them daily