Lazzy to neatly tie the left foot lase😁

Getting good at drawing at snail pace😁

First post not the last ... Be ready to see more bad drawings.....

I feel like I had the most trouble with the snail for some reason. Fun challenge and creating good habits struggle with like cleaner lines

I find this CSI Lines so hard! Really, I'm very impatient and messy! Gosh!!

Drew the snail and the came again after the demos and the critique. The camel had a better balance of straights and curves now but I still have a lot of issues with fitting my subjects on paper. Felt like doing the snail on toned paper but holy smokes this particular paper is SO dark.

Proko demo csi advanced subjects

One more attempt. Any critique welcome

Another CSI attempt. Haven't done so much erasing in my life, very difficult to get my hand to draw a line where I want it. Any critique welcome

Getting in these reps bit by bit, though I keep goofing on my page layout mainly on Captain Skeleton T_T. Also get super confused on counting teeth and in some ways the vertebrae, I get a weird anxiety, ARGH! The Scott Eaton anatomy I did a couple years ago is still in my brain pan, so there's a win :D! Another great exercise! And now after watching the demos and crits I went overboard, again XD!

Bit by bit, the practice pays off. If I don't concentrate 100% on CSI and the task, it becomes a painting. Thank goodness your videos are so entertaining, Stan - it helps keep you going.😉

After toiling away at the boots for SO LONG, drawing the snail took two seconds. I'm feeling happy with how I designed my shapes, but the lines seem pretty stiff. Gonna keep practicing the page skating warmups to see if it helps me loosen up a bit.

First camel and skelly guy were my solo attempt. Second set was while following the demo. I put way to much detail into my skelly guy. And after hearing that shoes were pretty tricky, I wanted to give both level 1 assignments a try.

After watching demo and critique I realised that I put too many details in the first skull drawing and that wasn’t the goal of this exercise, so I did it one more time without paying too much attention to proportions and small shapes, and focused on big lines. With boots and camel I was pretty satisfied, so I decided to simplify my sleeping cat instead ;) Still need to practice but I’m getting better with every lesson, those videos are great!

Second attempt at the Level 1 & 2 assignments. I used straight lines to map out the proportions first

I found it incredibly challenging to capture the shapes of the laces and wiggled my way there. Somewhere in between I had to pause the project until I had ordered a Mono zero in order to clean out the laces. I feel like I captured the shape of the shoes ok but was unable to focus on line quality.

After doing the first attemt way too detailed and probably missing the point of the exercise I set the timer to 10 minutes to finish the second attemt in order to shift the focus away from details to more confident lines.

I felt like the camel was way easier to capture shapewise than all the other pictures, even the snail. Anyway, after doing it rather precisely the first time I tried a second time with more focus on line quality and meet the objective of the excercise.

I tried to do more simple and clear lines when I did the second one

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!