Incredible beautiful piece.

Wow, what I ride. Fun, though! I focussed so much on the values, that I lost the tilt of the head... oh well. I chose the two-minute-one for the final.

Interesting iteration process to find the gem and simplify; tend to shorten necks, change to front view, and focus on features. At 1 min pure linear drawing appeared; final based on 1 min

I love this kind of stuff! It was interesting to me how, as the time shortened and I began to feel stressed by the ticking of the clock, my lines actually became bolder and more confident. I wasn’t expecting that! I like the 1 min drawing the best - it has a Matisse-like quality that surprised me. I started to fill it in with shading and detail, and decided that I actually like it better in its simplicity. So I stopped.

HAHAH that was a lot of fun, obviously a sense of scale abandoned me when time started to press and a person quickly changed to a completely different individual, but still, it is a cool task to work on) I've decided to change materials from time to time to find something ) it didn’t quite work out, but brought a lot of smiles) As far as interesting goes though - curiously my 8 minute drawing is more accurate than 15 or 30, at some point, I’ve changed his chin and carried the wrong one with me till the end on the bright side - right eye stays consistent!!👀😂 Though I chose 4min one to add values and form back a bit via the use of calque) - I like the feel of brush and if I wasn’t in a hurry - pretty sure I wouldn’t butcher negative spaces as bad) Good day and smiles to anyone who reads it.. if someone does 😅

Great exercise, I don't think the likeness is all the way there in these. I spent too much time trying to figure out the jaw line in the first attempt. I prefer the 30 minute one where I pushed the values some more. The most interesting one to me was the 30 second attempt. I tried to keep the shadow shapes simple.

Finally. I was afraid to start with this - but here it is. In 2 minutes he suddenly turned into a Chinese sage. I kept this for the final drawing, but everything I added digitally seemed to ruin the original paper drawing (9B and a graphite stick). So I only made the pipe more visible and let it smoke. Carefully added here and there some white hairs. Interesting to go through this assignment. 😅

This is my first time trying something like this. I think it's a sure way to find a style that doesn't feel forced. Something I struggle with, trying to force it. The mistakes I noticed were lengthening the neck and adding too much forehead. I found the 1 minute drawing to be most compelling.

I chose the two minute one to finish, though I like the 30 second one (I like it enough that I didn’t even want to shade it lol)

Great exercise, I will try to remember to do it now and then. Pretty intense though, working with such focus for 2.5 hours. I feel totally drained. I like 30 min and 4 min. Kind of weird how the 2 minute one deviates so much from the others.