Here are my level 1 and 2 attempts at the line weight project, I am still finding it quite tricky to wrap my head around it! For most of my drawings using my own reference (some are from the internet, some are my own photos), I mainly approached it from a light and shadow perspective, apart from the sunflower bud which I initially did with depth and form and then re-did in light and shadow. I’m not sure if I’m overthinking it, or maybe being a bit too self-critical, but I don’t know if I’m actually getting it or if my drawings just look like a mess haha. Any critique/feedback would be greatly appreciated, especially for this exercise, and maybe some advice also on how to improve going forward as I’m feeling a bit stuck with it at the minute. It would be really useful to get someone else’s perspective to pick up on things/issues I might not be seeing in my drawings (hopefully that makes sense?). Thank you :) Thank you :)

Hello everyone! I would love a critique on these! For some context. The first rhino is the level 1 light, the next three rhinos are the hierarchy of importance. I had a hard time at first and still think that I pushed the thick lines too thick. The pea shooteresque drawings are itterations on lighting and hierarchy of importance. Here I also think I made the lines too thick. I also noticed some weird wobbles that I don't experience when drawing traditionally so I increased the stabilizer a tad. not much but I think it's much better. I do tend to go too quickly and my brain not being able to catch up. It's a bad habit of mine that is really hard to shake off. I drew like this for about 7 years. Even though I spoke quite critically of my exercises I think that I have come quite far in such a short amount of time and I am really hyped to keep going and some day start this course over and being able to absorb more of what stan means. I do believe that at the moment I am not able to absorb everything he says and I don't think that would be good. I am a beginner and doing the beginner stuff is my "job" right now. Thank you and have a great day!

I know this one is quite sketchy, but having fun with fading lines. Let me know your thoughts!

Here is my line weight exercise before watching the demo/critique. Definitely some things I would do differently now. But, that is why I'm taking the class. Any feedback is always appreciated.

Sharing my line weight exercise

Another try of line weight after viewing this video

light and shadows try

Here are some drawings where I tried intentionally to change the line weight. The first is the Rhino one, that was intented for this project. And the other two were different parts of the house where I live. There were some perspective elements which weren't easy at all to handle with. Feel free to tell me your thoughts about it!

(From Line of action, i lost the ref)

So it doesn’t necessarily have to be faithful to the photo, right? For example, if I want the viewer to focus on the bear, but in the photo the rock has the strongest contrast, then faithfully reproducing that would draw attention to the rock instead. So in that case, it’s okay to adjust it, right?

I tried it too because the photo you posted @chary was so cute. This is pretty difficult. Shading itself is simple in the sense of getting darker or lighter, but I think it takes practice to balance importance and depth at the same time. I wanted to emphasize the lion’s mane as an important feature, but since the mane is on the light-facing side, the lines ended up looking light. Maybe I should have made the shadowed areas of the mane darker?

Landscape in Tokyo - using lines with depth and shade

Plant with simple line vs plant with Hierarchy by importance (right one)

I liked the traffic light piece. It reminded me of some of the stuff you see on the liminality subreddit.

2025/10/12. Good afternoon everybody. This is my assignment for section. Thanks and have a good Sunday.

love the line weight exercise!

It's my level 2 practice.

I tried to incorporate the values of all three parts, and that's probably the main reason why my drawing isn't very good either way.

Hi Everyone, I am practicing line weight digitally. I am able to pull my initial drawing with good lines but as I apply line weight as second line my lines aren't correlating with initial copy or I don't get tampering lines and It doesn't look good as initial drawing. Do I need to learn putting line weight in initial phase with planning or I am lacking practice to pull good line weight stroke in my second attempt? Help please?

Made a quick little drawing while watching. It was just a little bunny (attached) and I wanted to try and indicate the speed through the line weight. My thought was that I would indicate the parts of the motion which were in tight/stretched/pressure with a think line and the parts that I see as being relaxed were lighter. Not sure i'm 100% happy with it but atleast 70%. If anyone wants to try and make their own running rabbit I'd love to see how you tackle the speed aspect :) Edited a quick overlay of reference and drawing. My only excuse is that I I intentionally gave the front weight bearing paw an big curve to try and cue that its weight bearing. The rest is my generally messing up proportions. I think the ears I should have been able to get right as I realize my angle on the ears are just generally too much.