I was bored at work and just playing around. I know my perspective is probably off on the building and I never could get the nose right on my little porcupine. I am not sure if he looks too much like a porcupine. I did try putting more needles on him but that looked even worse so I erased them.

I couldn't decide on how to do the eyes for my character so I did a few different ones playing around. My thought was a cat of nobility sitting on a royal pillow. But then I got side tracked on how to express the eyes.

My attempts. I did misjudge the lay in of the robot girl and ended up making her a little too big.

Day 14

Day 13.

Day 12. More studies of elephants for an upcoming painting I want to do.

Day 11 drawing. I did not do a drawing on day 10 😔

Day 9. I was not in a mindset to draw today but I did manage to pull out a quick sketch of a hummingbird

Day 8. It was hard to keep this as a line drawing. I really wanted to start shading. Photo by Viacheslav at PaintMyPhoto.

Day 7. I decided to draw Calvin and Hobbes in honor of Valentines Day.

Day 6 drawing

My attemp at the camel. 3 down 1 more to try.

Day 5. Drawing done from the children's book "The Bear Dance."

Day 4. I was being super lazy today but I did manage to do a quick drawing. I was definitely not in a mood to draw today.

I finally got around to doing the boots today. The shoe laces were a pain.

My day 3 drawing. I accidentally moved the light before taking the pic so proportions are off. But, then again, I know I would have been off on the proportions anyway 😆

Here is my attempt at the snail.

day 2 I found myself scribbling too much in this one. 🙄

day 1 for me :)

This week I returned to the pear. Simplifying has felt very complicated so far. I've drawn the pear ten times and attempted the portrait twice, each time I've made a plan and followed the steps, but for some reason the result just doesn't look any different. Ever. Argh! So I've repeated the same mistakes over and over again, while the mistake remained a mystery to me. This morning I watched Stan's pear drawing demo again, just listened and watched without drawing at the same time. I didn't really find the magical answer I was looking for, and went to work - 8 hours later I was driving home from work, and suddenly it hit me: so far, I've had all the values in the same pool, and I've not separated the shadows and the lights. I've not thought about which side of a refence is in shadow and which one in light (what?! Why haven't I?). In this assignment, I've just used four values all over a drawing, as pleases my eye, and how I see them in the reference I'm using. But so. Ta-daa! This answer was indeed on the demo, it just took me a whole day to realize :D. Not sure if hearing Stan's voice and being enlightened by it while driving is safe, but I got home safely enough and, with the enlightenment, produced this simplifyed drawing of a pear. I THINK this one looks different than my previous ones, and I've maybe learned something. Awesome. What do you think?