Compared to the attempt I had before watching the demo, this one was a way more pleasant experience. Seeing how to approach this type of exploration was very helpful in giving the process a bit more structure for me. Only after watching this did I realize how chaotic I went about it on the first try. These demos are great. Thanks!

Enjoyed this exercise a lot, and strangely found VR Girl to be the easiest of the three, while I was expecting the opposite. The hand I drew looks like it went through a stump grinder.

Tried the camel today. LOTS of difficulty getting the head proportions right. Drawing a circle to represent the back of the head and then building the features off of that worked the best, but still not happy with the overall proportions. Feedback appreciated!

Tried Skelly tonight after having a rough time with the boot laces on the “beginner” assignment. Enjoyed this one, but probably could have added more detail… dunno.

Running a bit behind on my lessons… this was a fun one.

Another try with pear #1, this time using better paper. Think I need to spend more time on the details in the shadow area, as all of the drawings I’ve seen that do that are much more interesting to look at.

I liked practicing finding the values from colors and having to make decisions on only 5 total values.

Not too happy with this one. Tones are all over the place, and pressing slightly too hard with the 2B kept putting me in 4B territory. Enjoyed the process though… will try again tomorrow.

I struggled, especially with the portrait.

Not a level 2 student by any means, but gave it a shot anyway.

Tried squinting this time to see the tones more easily, wound up with a patchwork quilt. Oh well…

Really enjoyed this project, although my end result looks a bit flat… possibly I oversimplified, or just need to pay more attention to the shadow boundaries. Just happy to be drawing again after a long time away!