After a few days of playing with portraits and pictures I found interesting I finally decided to sit down and do a CSI for its own sake without trying to get a good-looking drawing. I’m pretty happy with this skeleton, actually. Moving on!

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

Tapered line assignments 1st & 2nd tries. Hope these are dark enough. Lines were more tapered before had to go over them in order for them to show up on camera

Two more attempts after watching the critique video. I'm happier with the line quality but not so much with the proportions...

Tried a snail again after watching the critique. Still finding myself rushing a lot. Will keep trying, and focus on slowing down. Any tips on how to have a slower work flow to take more care with lines are super welcome. I went in wanting to spend 20 minutes on it and raced through in 5!

Another great video, thanks Stan! Absolutely love this course. Looking at my CSI drawings again - I know I need to work on confident lines and practice making my straight lines...straight! My snail is sitting on a slanted wooden ledge :S Looking forward to the next lesson all about drawing confident lines :)

As the comment below, I've learned a lot here. I like CSI course the most, which is really helpful.

So much to learn here! For me the biggest take away is confident line quality, so I'm really excited to see that the next lesson demonstrates this! Thank you Stan!

Some more attempts .I still confused on many details. It's tricky to find proper references ,some of them are too simple to simplify, or too complicated. And I still cant process the references in a right way. Hope more attempts helps.

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I was really pleased to see a combination of level 1 & level 2 in the same video. We all have things to learn and seeing all levels is beneficial. I believed when I started the course that I was quite good at drawing but wow, have I had a lot to learn. Thank you as always for your great content @Stan Prokopenko

I legitimately don’t know if I did the assignment right or not lmao. I drew strictly in relation to CSI and decided what mark I was going to make each time before making it :/

I know this is not directly related to the subject at hand, but I wanted to ask: when you are learning the fundamentals like gesture, construction, or perspective, is it better to try it on paper or on digital? I ask because I recently got a digital tablet for my birthday and I find that though comparing the references to my drawings is easier, actually making the lines and navigating clip studio paint is pretty difficult. So I was wondering if it would be better to focus practicing on paper for a while longer then coming back to digital, or to keep trying at digital right now even if the progress is much slower.

I watched critique video and I decided to paint a different pair of boots this time - one that has a lot of lines, and the difference is I did whole work using shoulder and elbow to draw, almost no wrist - to force me to pick lines. I must say - it is so hard to draw against ones instincts to zoom in and draw using wrist xD

Did a couple of goes at this. First two images was before watching the demos and critique. Had a lot of trouble keeping to things and made a lot of feathery lines. Second two are after watching. Still some wobbles and feathery parts but way bigger strokes and I did a better lay in. The boots are night and day

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Sending an invitation to study with the other ‘master draftsmen’ at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Visit in person or online with video essays. See what 19th century French artists achieved when playing with their new tools! “A variety of materials became available to artists—such as commercially fabricated chalks, pastels, and specialty papers—encouraging figures ranging from Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres to Paul Cezanne to reconsider the place of drawing within their artistic practices.” How appropriate for our class! Drawings of the French artists in the current exhibition. Runs until June 11, 2023. And for your library…”A richly illustrated catalogue—the first to document this collection—accompanies the exhibition, featuring new research on each of the included works and essays by leading scholars in the field.” https://www.clevelandart.org/exhibitions/nineteenth-century-french-drawings-cleveland-museum-art

Thanks for another helpful video! I like the example of how the straights gave more weight to object and saw that clearly in the example you gave.

I may have misunderstood the assignment:

Thank you!!