Worth learning and conceptual.

So today I want to draw a koala and I just want to test how to make a character , so I give it a shot. Part 1, so the first page is study and understanding the koala looks. And how does it feel on the paper and what details does it have. Part 2 , I'm trying to characterize the animal and see how to exaggerate the features to make it more enjoyable or appealing to their younger audience. Final part: The final look, I thought of an old wisdom koala that have Knowledge and wisdom and I put it sitting on a branch enjoy the view of life , or you could say , "enjoy the moment" that was fun to do and any feedback are welcome. I will work harder to become a professional artist!

This is a stanebiter/wolffish. They have many cool features that could be adjusted. I tried giving the mouth different expressions, and adjusted the eyes some. The pec' fins can be used to move around and express intention, while the dorsal can be used expressively - erect for happy, back for sad etc. My ability to draw held me back - lol. doing side-on and front-on pictures allowed me to show some features but doing more unusual angles was too hard. Trying to simplify fin features etc felt challenging. Hopefully later on in the course i can improve on these as my skills improve, I'm very much level 1, but trying the level 2 exercises gives me an idea of what will be later. The red pencil shows up better in photo's than the orange one, so i will stick to that in future. I also have to sharpen it a lot more often. It goes soft and blunt very quickly. Any thoughts thoughts or suggestions gratefully received.

This was... so much harder than the first time? :') Idk, I really struggled with this one - got frustrated at myself for not getting the proportions/details right and lost sight of the goals (big ideas, loose lines). :| Tried to refocus for the final sketch (in green), though!

This really helped me understand what you meaning for imagination. Thank you

Wow that was hard. I went for an emo highland cow, using one of my own photos. I had only planned to draw the reference and then attempted a mirror image of the head. From there I found the urge to add some character as he looked a lil’moooody in the first sketch. In retrospect a hairy animal added perhaps an unnecessary challenge. I’ll pick an animal with better defined edges next time.

Here's a bunch of ravens (even though one of them might be a crow, I think) At first I misunderstood the assignment and drew the first ones purely from imagination using the references as inspiration, but after watching the demo tried to do it properly, and studied the reference first

I challenged myself further and re- imagined Stan's Chameleon after drawing along..

Gosh! I've been procrastinating a few days because I found this exercise suuuper intimidating. I had fun after all tho' I know is not great, but the exercise was very creative and, in the end, fulfilling. Thank you!

I found the drawing from imagination project to be a real struggle, which means I'm probably level 0.5. I chose the affable quokka as my animal, since they're supposedly the 'happiest animal on Earth'. However, although their body shape is a collection of chubby curves, I found it impossible to capture the essence of the Quokka's friendly face and my initial attempts screamed of Chucky meets Zootopia; I freaked myself out and almost gave up. So, I watched Stan's demo, since I wouldn't be copying his example I thought it would be allowed. That gave me the encouragement to push on, since it's about the lines more than the result. I think this project has helped me free up my line work but obviously there's a lot of room for improvement still. I decided to turn the 'friendly' Quokka meme on its head a bit and create a sort of ronin character that's smiling under the brim of its hat just before it draws the blade that will be the last thing you'll see. The hat wasn't an excuse to not have to draw the eyes, honest guv'. Onwards and hopefully upwards!

I wanted to try the chameleon too and it was actually fun but I didn't really explore any crazy or different shapes. Drawing from imagination is hard enough lol

Hi everybody, this is my attempt to sketching from imagination. I Need to be more loose and i could go more deep in explorations. I have difficulties to sketch from observation when there is almost no dynamism in the reference (the orange one) or it's in front view. I enjoyed the process and drawing with red/orange pencil changed really everything in the brain. It's bring more dynamism. Thank you all for yours advices :).

Still playing around with trying to loosen up and focus more on the shapes/gesture instead of adding too many details. I thought of picking a stingray at first but ended up choosing the yucatán gray fox. I put small numbers next to the sketches for the order I did them in. I tried to push things like making the tail longer. I struggled a bit with maintaining the same expression as I see on the foxes. The one where the fox is laying down looks more worried than I intended. But the quick fox I did in red maintains a sort of smug expression that I ended up really liking :)

I gave it another try, this time with a chinstrap penguin. :) I think I did a bit better than last time.

Hey there!! I drew 2 animals for this one!

did best i could on imagination thing

Gave it another shot with a different animal after watching the demo.

Hooh, long session. Because I'm a noob, I picked the easiest props to draw from (the earlier attempt with the Mantis was unfortunate). I can see that it's hard for me to relax fully and use more expressive, searching and confident lines… I like everything so clean, damn. But nevertheless, I tried. Will let myself proceed in the course, at last. Today I'm proud of myself :}

Here I tried with a bunny. Will add more postures.

I decided to challenge myself a bit more than the deer mouse I sketched and did a raven. I'm not sure how I feel about the final imagination drawing (the one by itself). I was trying to go for something dynamic. I've got a ways to go.