This is my animal hope you like it

Revisiting this exercise, feel like I have a better grasp on it this time around!

Had a really fun time following along and re-imagining Stan's chameleon. Ended up with Hellboy chameleon. Yippee!

I've watched a few demos now and I just want to say thank you for A.) Emphasizing how it's ok to go slow and make mistakes, and B.) Showing us when Stan makes mistakes. I feel like in the past I've seen a lot of videos that have been edited to hide mistakes or sped up so I don't get a real sense of how slow the process can/should be. Seeing a much slower process and being reminded that I don't have to be perfect has really helped me relax while learning.

i did not spend too much time here on my sketch and my focus was minimal i just wanted to understand the overall understanding from a macro perspective. the first 3 drawings are from the reference pictures and the last one came from my imagination.

I'm a bit shy but heres my attempt at the Lvl 2. The Aardwolf was the first attempt, but i feel this wasn't really good, too stiff. I tried to be more loose with the chicken x3 I think I could still be more exploring but all in all I like it. I wanted it to be round and fluffy and the beak developed while sketching out a few hens.

Drawing from imagination. My wife telling me to clean the toilets, and my feelings about doing that…

I think I'll turn this into a finished cartoon later on. 😎

First attempt pretty good I think. Maybe I drew them to simple but my level 1 was too easy

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!