30-second and 2-minute gesture session.

That's a pretty good overview of how to break away from drawing with symbols and get a sense of form and rhythm in drawing. Beginners should find it helpful. The title was a bit confusing. I was expecting to see demonstrations of drawing from life rather than from imagination. Maybe "How to Draw With Life" might be a more fitting title considering some of the points you made in the lesson. Also, if you can turn off your camera's auto focus and set focus manually, it would eliminate blurring in and out as you move in and out of the frame. Best of luck with the classes. If you accept kids, I bet you'll be very busy during the summer.

It's a little hard to tell, because her heels are causing her hips to lean forward and her shoulders to lean back. And her head is probably bent forward a bit. But to my eye the horizon looks to be about wasit level or slightly above.

I like drawing skulls too. The second and third skulls look fine to my eye, but it's the first one that has some issues. The thing that stands out most is that the nose cavity is shifted to the left. Also, from the eye cavities to the top of the head we see a level skull, but from the eye cavities down (except for the nose cavities) the skull is tilted to the left. You can use lightly drawn or imaginary horizontal and vertical lines to make sure features line up with other features on the model at whatever angle it is being viewed from.

I attempted a sphere this time, again from a reference rendered in Blender. The cast shadow got a little out of control, and the edges got pretty wonky. Once again, the issues seemed way more pronounced after seeing them on the computer. Vine and pencil choarcoal, kneaded eraser, and tortillion on 9x12" sketch paper.

Today I tried some timed gestures with my non-dominant hand. I also used larger paper, 18x24" newsprint rather than 14x17" sketch paper. One 30-second session and one 2-minute session.

Day 163: 14th May, 2025 10 min value studies

Gesture drawings: 30-second session and 2-minute session

Congratulations on having a happy client. It's always nice to get paid. Your shading is very clean throughout the hair and face. The one thing that jumps out at me is that the eye and eyebrow on the left, which are farther away from us, look huge compared to the ones on the right, which are closer to us.