Backpack

I enjoyed this excercise a lot! This showed me how much work I still have to do with just designing shapes. Lineweight is on my mind, all the time, but, as of now, it feels like I don't have enough energy left to execute it for a more finished look - after I've poured my brain on earlier stages. From this assignment I also learned that I still have the annoying tendency to get into details all too soon. It gives my drawings a certain stiffness, I think. Today, though, I'm far more able to let go of pedantry than I was a year a go, and being loose and just feeling it is a great feeling, so that's a win :D.

Here is the work I’ve completed for all ginger-related cross-contour practice. I really found this assignment insightful. I ended up applying all of the skills we’ve learned so far, twisting forms, designing shapes, perspective and line weight. From this I feel I still need to work on generating shapes and poses without reference, but more so keeping my mind’s eye strong to better visualize the end result. I still have a lot to work on but I think things are going well.

Here’s my submission. I’m happy to have caught up to hopefully get critiqued for the 100th episode! I really found doing this project helped me apply wha I have been learning with tumbling the boxes. I think I still need to work on finding the right angle from imagination, but I think I am on the right path.

My series of seal sketches, I really loved this assignment. Seals have not only unique shapes but such a lovely gesture for drawing, the ones that had the most gesture were easier to make, while the ones that were more straight were bit harder to draw. Overall, I feel this assignment was really good and I got good basic understanding of how to use gesture and lines to create unique shapes instead of contours.

Here is my work on the rhythms assignment. At first I was a bit confused on how to movemthe rhythms through, and really what made it different from gesture. The first three I tried were off and I wasn’t happy with them so I tried again. This time I instead of forcing myself to finish in 5 minutes I took a bit more time and the results were much better. The last six are all from that second session and I can see that they have a lot more flow and structure. I can’t wait to use this with my gesture drawings,

Initial attempt at this project. This was really fun and helped me see how to use one point perspective to construct an entire scene. I really loved trying to figure out how to match each line to the vanishing point. Please feel free to critique.

Here is my initial attempt at the level one project. Perspective is something I’ve been tying to work on so this project was really enlightening. I’ve been using the box method for the head for a while now, but this really showed me what I still have to learn. I got a basic understanding, but I was struggling with matching the top of the head to the top plane of a box and with trying to visualize the horizon line for the photo compared to my own eye. I will watch the demos and do some more practice on this.

Here ar my submission from a few days ago. I was going a bit fast to get caught up with the live critiques but the perspective section has really been helpful. This assignment was much easier to do after understanding that the perspective of each box is different instead of forcing every box to align to the same vanishing point, I love hands and I think these were pretty okay. I’ll need 5o do more to make sure I really understand it.

I am posting these way later than when I drew them, but here are my posts for the animal portrait project. This project really showed me how shape design can and should be simple yet dynamic, I really had fun challenging myself to break down the character, and the fact our shapes were not limited to basic ones helped me to understand how shapes can be used as opposed to relying on contours.