These warm-ups are a welcome distraction (from moving house😅). Turns out it’s very calming. No ruler used. Various pencils.

Hey Marshall, Stan, I watched out for the eyes.training app from your studen, Marshall. Man it's AMAZING. I start now using it to practice! Thank you for the pointer. Man your student must geek (in the postive way) and I love it! Regards and big THANKS to him, Marshall. Kevin

Same dog, Bandit as a pup. Now on very smooth paper. Graphite and gel-pen.

Bought 200 (digital)MAD magazines online 😃 Here's Woody by Mort Drucker. First I studied him with graphite pencil, took a photo and worked on it in Procreate.

Keeping myself busy with lots of hair. In hindsight i should have used a more smooth paper, but for now I'm happy with the result because I thought I would mess it up totally.

Fun. From MAD No. 289, page 45. Mort Drucker. Maybe I should have been more precise, eyes are not in line - but I just wanted it to look like Dave and wanted to see how the hatching is used. I miss those programs. He’s the best.

Great course! Still need a lot of practice in rendering. It's fun to work from imagination. I liked it that the second drawing turned into a claw and for the arm I had a Gollum-like being in mind, with different anatomical forms.

Exercising sketches along with Stan and from Mattesi’s book.

Copying drawings from the book as an exercise. Just trying to get the feeling of the movement and to apply or see some anatomy.

Before I watch the level 2 vid, here a few exercises from the last days. Some were longer than 5 minutes, on the second page all 5.

Some sketches from before the assignment; exercises via Yt (Vilppu a.o.) and the figure drawing course. Then a page with quick sketches from stills of Stan’s vid and a few poses from the downloads. Hope to get better results when there is time for 1-2 hour sessions. But during busy times (like right now), I found out that these exercises were very relaxing, meditative.

While studying the pecs (again) I wondered about the muscles in the armpit region with the arm raised. With a slight alteration of the pose the position/visibility of the muscles also change - so I hope my drawing is correct.  The second image is what helped me figuring it out.

Watching Netflix and exercising.

Appart from the dynamic shapes studies of seals in the drawing basics course, I continued practicing on poses and portraits shapes. I tried to implement @Steve Lenze and @Martha Muniz 's advices , focusing more on accentuating movements, expressions, less on proportions and details. I tried to find interesting shapes while trying to give the impression of volume. I had a hard time sometimes, especially with the right hand of the man in the centre of the second page (which I had to modify as I never managed to draw the original postion)

Repeating anatomy is useful and fun. And I hope to up my drawing skills. I love Stan’s anatomical drawings, clean, precise and simple. I forgot to add: the line on the arm is the bicipital groove on the humerus.

Here's my assignment

this is my attempt. is there someone please help me to check on Ps? all critiques will be welcomed. Thank you

I've gone back to your figure drawing course and have been doing 100 30 seconds beans as a part of my daily training and the folds and pinches are just something I struggle a lot with. Granted, I am on a timer when doing figure, but even in my lvl 2 drawings I feel like it just never crosses my mind to include these.

Level 2.  The first 4 imagined in water, 5 and 6 on the beach. I tried to keep spontaneity in the lines while working in Procreate, but I find (one of the) original sketches with 9b more lively. Digital I used the syrup brush.

A few more seals+sealions with less details, more simplified and flowing lines.