2025/6/14. Good evening everybody. Here's my original character (sketch + refined digital version). During the final digital drawing I changed a lot. The sketch was just to put down on the paper some general ideas. Thanks for any comment or critique. Good night.

The chameleon in the lower left corner is my own drawing... I think the tail is curled in the wrong direction, hahahaha.

Decided to do a bear, did some sketches from ref then tried my hand at a cartoonish characted

I chose pigs to draw from my imagination. That's fun.

So my choice for the animal was penguin. I drew some detailed drawing at first to get main understanding of which shapes are important and which are not. Then i simplified until i got used to the main shapes, and drew some sketches from imagination (the last 2 photos). looking forward to hear what I did wrong, right, and how I can improve

Learning to Sketch from Imagination

Going with the red eyed tree frogs. After I noticed several others chose them too😆

I finished all the white paper in my sketchbook!!!!!!!

I started by drawing one sketch from observation then visualizing it from another perspective or in a different dynamic pose. Realized while watched Stan's observation critiques that these lines are not loose enough, but still enjoyed the process and think it turned out ok.

Sketch from imagination. Boy, this has always been very difficult for me. In fact, learning to draw from imagination was why I decided to take this course. I did better than I thought, but it still looks like a third grader did it. 🤦‍♂️ I chose a sloth for my animal for the simplicity; didn’t want to get discouraged by doing something too beyond my range. I think I could have spent more time on the study sketches. First two are the studies and the third is the imagine sketch. Really tried to push it with the reclining pose. Don’t know if it quite worked though. Overall, decently happy with it. But more work is needed.

I got carried away but I like this second attempt more (pre demo).

After watching the demo, I see that I could've spent more time sketching and thinking of more ideas, so I'm going to try a few more times!

I chose beaver for my second trial after demo!

Hi ! This is my second attempt at this after the demo. It's also day 11 of the two-week challenge. I chose the bighorn sheep. I did over the course of the whole day. It started very stiff, very close to the reference. I couldn't get loose and relaxed enough to go to imagination at first, but after a while I managed to get the "flow" state of mind, and things got way more fun (drawings on the lower part of the second page). On the third page of drawings I tried some cartoonish / younger versions of it, but I'm not as satisfied with them than with the ones in the second page. I realize once again that darker pencils (2B) are easier for me to get tapered and searching lines flowing, compared to my more traditional 2H sketching pencil. As always, all feedbacks are welcome !

I chose the red fox. The drawing showing details in the neck and the tail is my final attempt. This is the last image.

Second attempt at this challenge, not that satisfied with the results.. I feel like I haven't reached that coveted looseness yet, I still lean a lot towards that dreadful stiffness.. I'm sure it will get better with time, though. Thank you and hope you enjoy!