so I've been a bit spotty with my uploading (I am doing assignments, just had a lot on my plate and not a ton of time to scan my sketchbooks and do posts. I did finish the class though!). This was fun and these are actually re-designs of my originals. I don't think I would usually go for this graphic a style but I enjoyed experimenting. Once again I think I would benefit from completing my figure drawing course. Though my understanding of anatomy, pose, and gesture are improving, I'm not completely intuitively comfortable applying these things to design (so no, David, the fancy stuff isn't working yet... not totally). However, I feel I did alright representing these guys. Maybe the peace keeper looks a bit more than slightly sadistic (more like a villain or anti-hero than someone who is kind hearted) but I like how I distorted her anatomy. I feel that the leader's prop could have been more creative and her gesture a bit more loose, but I feel her anatomical design is working for her character. The rule follower has my favorite prop conceptually, I feel his character reads the most successfully, but that may be because as an awkward and anxious person, I can literally feel his gesture XD.

Please see below my first 6 sketches of people in my local coffee shop. This was allot of fun and very challenging I think I might have grown as a person doing this assignment. I am sure the first person I sketch I might have look at him a few too many times. Do we look once? that should be okay, twice? O no, three times? now I am in trouble for sure. What is the ethical thing to do should I ask them "can i sketch you?". I am going back tonight to do some more sketches. My one family member said If we are taking a picture out in public and someone walks by in the back ground we don't ask can I have this picture with you in it, my other family member was not as cool about it. What do you think?, did anyone experience the same thing? Also please critique my sketches. Thank you

Hello, I have completed my first assignment and I'd like to ask you for feedback. It was my first time in many years to draw traditionally so I only had available standard pen, pencil, and notebook for it.   The first pages marked with 1 were done from the photo ref but after reading comments under the video I drew the rest from real life and videos where people were moving. With each next page, I tried to push simple shapes more and more but I have to say it's harder than it looks.

Hi! I would be glad to get your feedback on my assignment. I'm in a quite isolated place now, so I had an opportunity to draw people from life only once+I drew my dog. Other drawings were done from TV and photos (I put a time limit on myself and spent no more than 5 min per sketch). I marked which sketches are done from what source. 

Sorry about posting in the wrong tab. I am not able to go anywhere at the moment so I drew from movies.

I thought I had posted, but it’s gone now. Since I am homebound, I went to YouTube and searched “people watching airport” and that’s what I’m sketching from. First two sketch pages before going to bed.

Having some odd things happen. I had edited my last post to add more imagery and when I checked it later, the edit was gone. So here is my master drawing from Milt Kahl’s beautiful work.

Disney Master study assignment.

Part 2 of my assignment! Four of them I got watching TV instead of in person (this felt harder which was a shock!). The master study does seem beneficial. The ones with the kids were in person and some the newest of the batch. So happy to be taking this class and excited to make improvements!

part 2 (mostly watercolor pencil). See the 1st post before critiquing. Thank you!

My Shere Khan study submission for this lesson's homework

Here is part one of my assignment. I will upload the other ones in the reply-section of this post. The sketchbook i was using was very small, so i did more than twenty pages. I was walking through the city, and whenever i saw someone interessting i would try to memorize some of their distinctive features. Then i would go to the side and try to do a drawing of them, trying to capture whatever sparked my attention. I also tried to use some of the designadvice from the videolesson. It was raining on the first days and cold every day, so most of those drawings where done quite fast. Though it wasnt easy i had a lot of fun most of the time, i have never paid attention to what noses people have, or to how they walk before. Im really enjoying this course so far and i am exited to start with week two. Any critique would be very welcome.

Second part of the assignment, master copy (height of the figures 21-22cm). Loved this.

My master study assignment. As a self-taught person I never took part in any courses, so I have no idea if I done this correct. I did it as I thought it would be fine and I'm ready to redraw it if it's necessarily.

Ok! It didn’t amount to 20 nor 15 pages, but at least I got to 12 digital sheets! I really wanted to push it to 15 but, I also wanted to get going with the other assignments and there hasn’t really been many good opportunities for me to do coffee shop sketching. So a good amount of these has been done a little bit differently; like taking a mental snapshot of people when buying groceries and then draw them from memory. I saw that there’s more coffee shop sketching further along the course so, I’m gonna plan for a day when I can really take my time at one place. Anyway, enough with the excuses. As a first assignment this really made me appreciate simple yet compelling characters even more. It’s difficult to distill a person into a believable character by just looking at them for a short period of time. And to find a balance of stylizing, pushing forms but still contain some similarity, while also not making a caricature. Looking forward to what comes next. And it goes without saying, any honest feedback that can help me improve is very much appreciated!

First 3 images are older sketches. Before I discovered Proko I saw Danny G. (in ‘21) on YouTube and I was inspired to keep sketchbooks and started drawing from television programs. The last 4 I did this week (2 from Yt) but I’m not content with those. Maybe I didn’t feel inspired.