This is a great exercise! There was a bit of panic mode happening with the time element, which really forces you to just put down your marks and commit. I think the 30 minute drawing was where I felt the most friction. My brain was still trying to hold on to the idea of accuracy and there was some frustration where the information simply wasn’t there in my memory. The process felt looser, and flowed more with each subsequent attempt. It was really interesting to see which lines and shapes your mind holds on to when you have less and less time to draw. Though I didn’t really get the likeness down I still learned quite a bit here. I love the idea of re-rendering up a less “accurate” drawing from memory. I wound up choosing the 2 minute version to render up a bit. He ended up looking like Ian Mckellen‘s fisherman cousin or something lol.

This was such a valuable exercise! Thank you! Even just the priming lessons opened up a world of possibilities for me. Looking forward to the rest of the class.

Had fun with this. And I did my final from the 1 minute. I chose 1 cause his face was crooked and that seemed interesting. I love using my creativity and embracing imperfection and like creating my own characters from pictures so that is what I did rather then trying to recreate his likeness a whole lot. I kept the crookedness so the eyes are different heights. Cause I didn't want to lose the wonkiness of it. I think with the ones from memory I shortened his face. I also did less and less shading and started to turn his head. I forgot the specific shape of his eyes right away and felt frustrated by that.

What an ugly truth! had so much fun rushing and facing my mistakes and clutches straight on! loved the 1 min version although i didn't like how i finished it. loved seeing all the other submissions.

Hello everyone ere is my submission for this assignments 6b. As usual i found it very interesting i did it twice because i really struggled on the first try, kept getting caught in focusing on proportions and likeness and doing it right etc. i even started the first 1hr first drawing twice on the first try because of this struggle an din the end i still felt like i failed some how which allowed me to do the second without many of this in problems as i has already "failed" before. I did noticed that as the time more and more constrained my memories drawings got smaller and that i couldn't "see" the image in my head so i attempted to focus more on the shapes of things and use this as a means of remembrance, which was very interesting. this is definitely an exercise i will be doing again in the future.

It was very interesting to see what you can remember and how the drawings change with less and less time. From 4 minutes onwards I was getting really stressed (drawing 5-8) :). The drawing style gets different because of it. I do not have a favourite (don’t like most of them), but decided to continue with the 1 minute sketch.

My Ugly Truth assignment! Really enjoyed this exercise even though I felt like that one moment from Brooklyn-99 of Jake Peralta screaming on a guitar for the 1-minute and 30-second ones haha. I ended up liking the 2-minute one the most :)

Here is my ugly truth assignment lol! I noticed something cool happening in the 15 minute-exercise and I thought to "fix" the eye placement instead of just leaving it alone. UGH. Oh well I need to do this more!

My ugly truth assignment

So interesting! Thank you so much!

That was a humbling experience, lol.

The character is Arthur Morgan :) and I kinda like the 8m. this one was a fun exercise!

Here is my part 2 of the assignment. I liked the way the assignment helped my choices for the final drawing by keeping simple lines from the minute drawing, along with tones from the first to emphasise the wedge like solid beard appearing to be supporting the pipe. Without my knowing these elements were drawing my focus in each drawing and by contrast very little focus to the hat, that continually shows throughout the drawings.

I found the drawing that I like best the drawing that took one minute to draw, as it looked lively in contrast to the beard and pipe looking solid. I didn’t render it all as I wanted to keep some of the line drawing from the minute session. I found the hat the hardest as you can see it keeps changing throughout.

Great exercise, I will try to remember to do it now and then. Pretty intense though, working with such focus for 2.5 hours. I feel totally drained. I like 30 min and 4 min. Kind of weird how the 2 minute one deviates so much from the others.

I chose the two minute one to finish, though I like the 30 second one (I like it enough that I didn’t even want to shade it lol)

This is my first time trying something like this. I think it's a sure way to find a style that doesn't feel forced. Something I struggle with, trying to force it. The mistakes I noticed were lengthening the neck and adding too much forehead. I found the 1 minute drawing to be most compelling.

Finally. I was afraid to start with this - but here it is. In 2 minutes he suddenly turned into a Chinese sage. I kept this for the final drawing, but everything I added digitally seemed to ruin the original paper drawing (9B and a graphite stick). So I only made the pipe more visible and let it smoke. Carefully added here and there some white hairs. Interesting to go through this assignment. 😅