On my second practice, I had trouble figuring out the general shapes of the shoe in the background.

This morning's effort with some chunkier footwear so I could use line thickness. 6B, 3B and F. I tried for thick dark lines at the front. Tried to use some thick, soft lines towards the back, but darker ones for the edges of the top stitched strips.

I took a photo of a pair of shoes to draw using line weight to indicate depth. Used a blunt 8B, 4B and HB for the different weights. Back of shoe down to the straps is drawn with the lightest weight. Lower edge of the upper shoe is kept mid-weight where it overlaps the lower shoe. I kept the insole stitching light.

I'm not sure if I did this right, but I decided to try the depth and form method in a landscape photo. This photo of a dock had pretty clear fore/mid/background elements to it, those being the people/nearby ships/far buildings. I played around with each element's opacity after I was done with the study, and line weight definitely is powerful in showing fog/atmosphere. Can't wait to try this one again after I've gone through the shapes and perspective lessons.

I thought I'd challenge myself with an exercise that has lots of circles (my nemesis) with this old bit brace. I know the perspective and dimensions are wonky but I'm okay with that since that's not the point of this exercise. But, looking at my line weights that are supposed to be showing depth and form, something seems off but I can't figure out what. Any advice greatly appreciated, thanks!

I put a lot of effort into this. I didn’t end up nailing it but I gotta let myself move forward. It was harder to do than I thought. Not the line weight part but this picture. Maybe a little above my level but I learned a lot and had fun. I also am happy with what I was able to do in the end by this point. I slowed down and spent a month practicing the warm up exercises and trying to drawing this. Hopefully I improved some haha.

Thinking of line weight in relationship to probity and light and shadow

My previous attempt was not good enough, so I tried one more time. This time with pencils & sharpies (0,3 + Brush (messy)).

Picked charcoal pencil to work with, but it was too hard for me to differentiate line weight with it. Took me ages to do, a more or less, proportional picture.

Tried with charcoal. The lines got a little bit messy, because I found it hard to keep it light with the charcoal.

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Is there a download of the reference picture available?

I tried the Depth and Form method with this teapot. I made it darker in the bottom part and the parts in shadow. I wondered what else should I do (and why)? Hope to receive feedback from you!

I followed along with the video for drawing the shoes, but after the demonstration, experimenting was the next step. Did I execute well in terms of displaying depth on the Jack Kirby Hulk piece? If not, what decisions should I make for future instances?

Started experimenting with line weight on more complex forms and it turned out looking better but it felt kinda random. Any advice for continuing would be welcome.

Tried out a wolf photo I liked applying these teachings

Here are my attempts for this project! In terms of structure, I think I did better, but I actually like how much I exaggerated in my first attempt. Now I need to figure out how to keep that sense of exaggeration without making the lines compete too much with one another.

Draw shoes after the demo....super exaggerated close up lines

I did these ones for the perspective course, but I was also focusing on depth and form line weight and line hierarchy. Disregarding the perspective part, how's the line quality and how can be improve?

I'm glad to see Stan makes some of the same mistakes I do. It makes me feel better about my incompetence.