I went with Gustave Doré, an illustrator from the 19th century. He does mostly wood engravings, however I could definitely see his use of line weight in it. Afterwards I tried to replicate a skiing Crocodile from Kley. Kley definitely felt harder to me. Even so Kley uses very loose lines I felt how I got stiffer and stiffer the longer I drew.

First attempt, but I'm not sure I'm doing this right

Reminds me of a cooking quote that "cooking is doing a lot of little things very well." And this video made me see how much that applies to drawing. I actually made a lot of similar big descisions as Stan and we were even given the exact same outline but some very small descisions that Stan makes throughout leaves the final design soooo much better. Great video!

At what point do they become shapes and no longer just lines? I wasn't sure if I had already moved beyond a "line drawing" in some parts.

It really helps to pull from your experiences when you're drawing from imagination. I worked out some shapes first using reference from the kiki pictures on the left. Then I started to think about some cats that I know in real life. I thought about how upset my roommate's cat gets when you don't play with him and that gave this little guy a lot of attitude.

After viewing the demo and the critique I did this assignment a second time with a new model, the praying mantis. I was quite challenged the first go around even after a second attempt at drawing from imagination with my first character, the prairie dog. So, I decided to try again. It's been a very good exercise for me beyond the sketching skills parts. Now I feel like I can move on with the course. Though I will do these again in the future for my continued learning and growing.

Had some trouble with this one, but still a fun exercise.

I don't consider me lever 2, but this I triend anyway. I choose the european olm als my species. It's a very interesting creature that lives in pure darkness and doesn't have eyes. However, there is on cave population in Slovenia with a little light, there the olm turns bkack and has eyes. My idea was to make a only half blind one. Also these guys look like little dragons and that's kinda cool.

Well, I have a lot to learn