I feel like I still need to do 100 of these before things start clicking. Really helpful to see others' work, I think it'll make my next attempts a bit less like "drawing in the dark".

I chose this Delacroix lion because I love the way he makes a bunch of scribbles look like fur. It turned out to be not the best choice for what I most need to practice, which is long flowy lines. The short strokes threw me back into old chicken scratch finger-not-shoulder habits. But after trying to copy his strokes, I came to a whole new appreciation of how precisely spaced and valued they are - and precise without being stiff! So it turned out to be a good choice after all. 

While googling samples, I found this Delacroix copy of a Rembrandt! Any benefits to studying a master's study of a master? ;)

Too late for the video critique deadline, but that's okay. I did a level 1 trace rhino (hierarchy of importance) and a level 2 rhino (shadows and light direction) with the light source coming from the top left corner, also had some fun with a bouquet of tulips around the house.

Missed deadline, but here are my rhinos, and a Sharpei (lots of lines)

Day 11: A giraffe (:

As an experienced chicken scratcher, this was difficult for me - wobbly lines everywhere. I took a detour to practice drawing smooth lines, and what helped most was tracing over photos of seated Buddhas. Lots of flowy curves to follow, and while I started out wobbly, by the fifth try I could feel smoothness starting to happen. It's still very new, but gratifying to feel progress! Boots and snail 1 are before Buddha-practice. Snail 2 and skull are after Buddha-practice.

Morning warmup with extra mushrooms.

Fun warm-up! Cooper best teacher haha

Oh dear. I think his eyebrow is trying to take over the world. Used Procreate on iPad with a tweaked 6B pencil. Was a very weird feeling to use only straight lines - pen kept wanting to curve. Clearly need much more practice in "seeing" planes. Also, did other people crank up the exposure to see the second eye? That side of the face was completely black on my device.