Hi Erik and Meadow, I am a big fan of your art and the Watt's Atelier online lessons. How should someone learn to draw to a professional standard when time is a limiting factor as they are full-time employed in something unrelated to art? - I spend 10-20 hours a week still on art so time management isn't the issue. Also, If knowing that I am doing the right type of learning is the problem, would mentoring be the only way to ensure you are learning the right thing? PS. Kristian or whoever reads this question is a bae!

I love this lesson and have come back to it many times now. I keep struggling with the ellipse and getting it to look in perspective. If anyone has any good tips on how they work on getting ellipses correct then I would love to know.

Hi Steven, I draw for fun and don't plan to do it for money, but recently I have gotten so into learning and improving that I don't 'draw for fun' but I still have fun practicing...is this wrong? Do I need to also have my own project? I don't feel I have enough time to really commit to both practice and play. Also, I have time anxiety because I am 24, started learning to draw in January and want to get good before I have kids. I am scared.

Hi Irshad, do you think it is more important to progress through classes and not stay stuck on each one for too long or getting to grips with a topic before moving on? and why? It also applies to learning the figure since I struggle to move on from gesture but I have decided to progress anyway and just keep coming back to it.

Hi Siqi, I feel the same as a lot of people here and have found that trying to do too much has given me 'time anxiety' where I see every minute I am not doing something as being wasted. I got serious with my art practice in January and since then trying to fit it into my 55 hour work week (food industry) resulted in me spending all my free time drawing or thinking about drawing. I would recommend try to catch yourself early if you start worrying about every minute going by and just try to enjoy the learning process without too much thinking about whether you are doing enough. Also, I feel I am better at giving this advice than listening to it because it has been a struggle to deal with the stress but find what works for you. In terms of art goals, I also think since your practice time is limited, the best thing to do is establish what you most enjoy about art and other artists and what you want to do with it... You won't be able to learn everything because you'll likely become meh at all of it rather than really good at the one thing you actually enjoy. Again that is easier said than done, I still want to do everything perfectly but I am going to just accept I am not going to have time to draw perfect city scenery in perspective because my focus is faces and figures. I am not going to learn concept art because I just want to draw for fun not for a living..etc. Once you figure out a goal it will hopefully be easier to make big steps towards them without getting distracted by everything else around you, which will in turn save you probably years in the long run. Sorry to ramble, hope it makes sense and don't get time anxiety like me!

Tried applying the lesson to a similar shape - changed it some to see whether I understood the concepts. All feedback is welcome.

The first one i drew along the video. Couldn't get the values right because i only have 2b mechanical pencils :( Feedback/Critiques would be greatly appreciated!

Nice studies Uku! As you said the first one looks a bit off, specially the forehead shadow, wich is too vertical and straight, as well as the shadow on the neck wich feels unatural maybe because of the "inserstion" you made it in the jaw. The 3rd photo looks fantastic apart from some perspective issues like Steve pointed out, and the ear seems small compared to the rest of the facial features, this can be avoided by drawing a line between the eyebrow and the nose, to place the ear. The 4th photo is also very nice, but the shadow of the cheekbone is pushed too far right, I don't have the reference models you were using but I belive it should be closer left. Keep up the great work!

Hey Uku, these are awesome! you have some good skills. The forth drawing is really nice! I did have some thought on the first and third drawings that I hope could help you. I did a draw over to show you what I was thinking. Keep up the drawing, these are really good :)