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“Sometimes, the more perfect you try to make the drawing, the less perfect it becomes.” I should get these words tattooed on my body! ! Well...at least I wrote it down in my notebook. Thank you Stan,

Attempt to draw T-Rexes from imagination. Blue sketches were drawn from observation at the beginning. Btw I love the Jurassic series for so many years, eventually I get done with a dinosaurs sketch from imagination. Not one ,but three. It was a challenge.

Boots 5? Boots are lots of fun. CSI is lots of fun.

Thank you Stan for confirming the use case of lost lines! That made me not so frustrated when I drawing down a mess to get my thoughts materialized. But in another case, if I'm not very good at drawing some kinds of shapes(especially ellipse), I tend to draw down "lost lines", even I'm so clear about which shapes they should be. I just can't control my arm and shoulder. Here is a typical failure below.

I decided to mix things up and draw Stan. I’m still a beginner, so it’s not perfect but it was good practice. Despite how it looks, I did sketch the structures first before detailing it :)

First of all, thanks a lot for helping me clear my mind and fix my mindset. This is a precious lesson to me even more than teaching skills. (Those words below heavily relying on Google translation and broken manual correction. may have caused your dyslexia.)  For many years, I wanted to draw scenes from my dreams or from some inspiration, but I gave up at the draft stage. Perhaps it was too difficult for me because of my lack of relevant professional knowledge and experience. It always kills me, especially when I see some similar scenes in movies or somebody’s sketchbooks.  As I worked on the basics of art, I dreamed that one day I would be able to start working on those ideas easily. But after all these years, it looks like a delay. Share a funny story of mine. When I was a child, I drew from imagination more often than observation. After I indulged in comics, I also drew my own cartoons very poorly. No expectation, no pressure and any knowledge of drawing, but I just enjoyed and satisfied by every sketch of mine. All the way through college, I taught myself to draw, drawing a few short comic stories, even I struggled in drawing trains and cars and buildings and strange perspectives of people. But I always start with a blank sheet of paper to describe my ideas. It was not until later that I joined an art course on internet and began to learn a lot about drawing from observation. And then for many years, I only practiced in drawing from observation. Gradually I copied well, but I found that I could not spontaneously draw the things from imagination like I used to do. I forgot how to do that. Even though my job is character design, I can design again when I have a job assignment. Nothing could be  weirder! Drawing become less interesting for me. It’s more like a job.  After this lesson, I’m aware of what kind of practice I most need, even the next step. Thank you Stan! 

Tardigrade, but kinda morphed into a caterpillar centaur.

My day 23-26.

I think crocodiles / alligators are fun. They appear rough on the outside but I love to think they have a surprisingly gentle soul. I attached reference images, some study sketches and one "final" drawing.

@Stan Prokopenko So how many times of using a eraser is proper when we draw a sketch? I saw you rarely used it in demos . But I use them more often. That's kind of annoying. Now I try to slow down to let my mind catch up. But I still curious about your opinion on it.(Sorry about my poor English. I wish I made that clear.)

Thanks for the classmate who uploaded the cat's photo to #14 days challenge#. Sorry I can't remember your name. Your cat photo is so funny, I couldn't help myself drawing a picture for him or her.

Shoes 3 and 4. Comparing with the demo several times, I finally kind of got it how to simplify. Thank you Stan!

I decorated my figure drawing sketchbook a bit.

Day22

Skull again.

Snails

@yecai loved your sketchs of camel, chicken etc, so I wanted to draw mr or miss chicken , it was fun