This was far more difficult than I thought it would be. Balancing thinking about the rhythms and flow along with proportions was kind of intense. The third image I attached I think is the best. It is from after I watched the demos and critiques and slowed down more. I had a hard time having peoples torsos come out too thick, or their limbs too long. I attempted to use overhand grip for most of these. The first few are drawn with an old charcoal pencil I found. It always seemed to come out super dark and didn't have the value variety that I would've liked. Any critiques are welcome! (As well as charcoal recommendations.)

This was the first time I really understood what the point of gesture drawings were! Very helpful to use seals. I have done some with humans in the past but didn't have any understanding of dynamic shapes and ended up with many a noodle person. I find it a little difficult to balance the interesting shapes, lack of symmetry, etc. while still keeping them dynamic and making them flow nicely. Hopefully mileage will solve some of these problems.

I knew the eyes were off when I drew them but laziness took over and I didn't feel like fixing them. Overall pretty happy with my eyeballing skills.

This was quite difficult. Definitely an exercise in patience. Pretty pleased with how it turned out though!

This was very fun, tried to push it into many different shapes and sizes.

I chose Junji Ito. This was super fun and interesting to take a closer look at how he uses different techniques he uses to get around using just black and white! Took some notes as well but did not upload them.

Probably should've put more emphasis on the nostril in the importance example.

A gentleman ladybug!

Post-demo sketches! Trying to focus more on large lines and movement as opposed to the actual contour and details.

Feel like I got a little carried away in the detail haha. Now I understand why everybody has an issue with drawing hands! Lines quality definitely suffered with trying to get the hand right. Like the way the drawing of the girl turned out.

I definitely have a problem where I try to rush too much. I retried the boots and skull after the demo. Did an extra picture as well. I ran out of space with the skull and the camel, trying to get better with judging how big a drawing will be.

I did both levels before and after the demo. Tried to not rely too much on the demo after watching it (although I relied on it more than I should've for level 2). Also I rushed less on the second go.