Second try, I always like the betta fish, and I think they fins are full of dynamic shapes!

if anyone can give any suggestions please.

it Was hard, specially at the beginning, but it was really fun, I will keep trying! n.n

I took a lot of time to get to the "after demo" set after I was done with the initial pre-demo part of the project. All in all, I feel like I forgot a lot during the skip, and my quality is wildly swinging from okay to awful. But oh well, at least the exercise and the subject matter was fun :D I'll have to come back to dynamic shapes anyway in the future, I feel it's my worst skill area so far.

Hello here are my practice sessions for this morning. Very fun to do

So satisfying to draw em, but still is hard when foreshortening is strong

I know there are a lot of comments mentioning that this is a nice break from the proportion project, but it is the opposite for me. At least in the proportion project, I felt an underlying sense of how well it was going and had a proper vision of what I wanted to draw—even if the final result wasn’t fully accurate. Capturing the energy of the shape, forgetting about the outline, finding the gesture line, etc.—all of this feels way harder. Initially, I started in my standard-size sketchbook, but after a while, I found it really frustrating to draw on a small page, so I switched to my bigger drawing pad (11x14 inches). That size felt way more comfortable than my sketchbook. I spent weeks on this project, mostly due to frustration that I was not getting it. I did some studies on the gesture bean to try to "get it". I still feel like I don’t get it. But I have to move on to the next project. I absolutely fell for the snowman trap for seal #30. I love the comparison between the two attempts. P.S - all of the "post" drawings are after watching the demo and the critique videos.

This time I tried for actual shapes instead of just gestural lines. This definitely takes actual practice to get my hand to go where my mind wants it to go.

These creatures are so cute🥰 I love how they are basically a bunch of blobs but so expressive!

Here are my attempts for drawing the seals! I am having fun drawing seals as gesture. It helps me not have to be a perfectionist and just let go and have fun. First 3 images starting from the left are my attempt before watching demo. The last three images are my attempt after watching the demo. The numbers on the drawings define the image number of the reference from the seal images that Proko provided.

Here are my after demo attempts. Overall I'm pretty happy with them.

The project was so hard I have been trying to draw dynamic seal poses for about a week now and those are the last 4 I drew from memory and I am kinda happy with them (if you ignored my line work)

Absolutely loved drawing those!

This demo really helped!!

I'm not sure what it is, but sometimes I don't "see" the gesture that Stan is trying to indicate. And what normally looks like a basic straight line for the gesture, Stan sort of just...makes it S shaped anyways, because that's more interesting. Like the spine on the last drawing, it's head or top portion of the body is going straight for me, but Stan made it an S shape

I tried this both digitally and traditionally. From observation first (image 2, 3 and 4) and then from memory only (image 1), I tried to make new poses. It was hard but fun !

my 2nd try after the demo

2nd try after demo

@Martha Muniz All constructive criticism is appreciated!

notes from the video any critiques are appreciated thanks