Is there a way to tip the head backwards in profile? I can get it to move in every other direction.

Sadly, this is actually the best version I did. I chose the sketch because I think Raphael illustrates the idea of line weight to indicate importance: his face and hat are done with dark lines while his hair almost disappears. Faces are hard! I have so much trouble with noses in particular. Also mouths. And don't get me started on eyes. Thank god his ears are covered...In spite of the shame this causes me, I felt like I needed to post it so that at the end of the course I can look back and laugh/cringe. Or not. Whatever. Is it too early for a drink?

When drawing from observation is getting the correct line you observe just pure intuition ? If you are not measuring. I feel like i have been really overthinking drawing from observation lately. Are you guys focusing hard on the line you are seeing on your subject and going line by line until your done. Or do you interpret the shape of your subject more and try to copy ? I hope this made any sense. I feel like the awnser is that you guys dont really think about it and just pull your line and im overthinking it.

I chose this da Vinci sketch for the way line weight is used for depth. The thickest/darkest lines are at the front of the horse, especially the head, fading toward the back, and the back legs are hardly there at all.

It looks so effortless when Picasso does it! I love the clean lines and that Picasso captures the essence of the bull with just a few loose strokes. Which are very hard to emulate. The next one I want to do is much more complicated and messy but I don't think I can face it right now.

Hello, I'm not sure if I'm the only one, but I can't seem to play the video. It loads as "completed" with the blue check with no playback option. Thanks for all that you do!

How do you make the lines of the original line photo lighter for printing purposes? Also, how do you take the original photo and turn it into just lines? I wan't to do more of this to practice with other photos and with photos I've taken. Do I need a certain app?

The rhino project is the first one I've posted in the stream here instead of the general one. I felt so far behind on all of the others. Same observation here as the hierarchy of importance one--it would've been easier to distinguish dark from medium to light if I'd used a range of pencils instead of just a standard #2.

There isn't enough differentiation among the dark, medium, and light lines. I used a regular pencil for both drawings and I think it would've been better to use a range of them.

Voila.

It's a skunk. Have you ever seen a group of baby skunks crossing a yard? Adorable. But mostly I chose a skunk because they're triangles from toe to butt followed by a fountain of fluff, with C and S curve stripes all along. It's much easier to see from the side but when I tried that I felt like I was unduly influenced by Pepe LePew.

Not feeling this project.

After and before: The first one here is after watching the demo...sigh. Not really an improvement. I felt like the only times I was really practicing Cs and Ss was on the long contours of the boots. The laces were too tight, in a manner of speaking, to feel like I had any scope to really C or S. Also, I kept losing track of where I was on the <expletive deleted> laces.

Those boots are an argument in favor of velcro.

These were done after watching the demo and critique videos.

Well. I can only get better, right? This was done before watching the demo. I was working with one #2 pencil and drawing on a larger scale than I usually do, so maybe going smaller would have helped. Also, when the shadow is all on the left, this left hander has to concentrate on keeping her hand off the paper.