Beginner. Redrew the images so much I got burnt out so I found different images of the same themes and styles to draw instead. its tricky trying to get into sketch-mode frame of mind—I’m obsessing over detail too much. It’s tricky. Just gotta let go.

decided to redraw the hand after the demo. I think the fingers are too small, but overall, I think it's an improvement.

I drew these after I watched the demo. Still need practice with the hand.

Attempted the penguin one more time after watching the demo. Tried to be more loose. I also straightened out the angle of the head during my 1st try. I think I got it this time.

Heres my before and afters. Of course I struggled with the hand. Starting to understand the concept of sketching. I erase mistakes here and there to adjust but hopefully I'll get used to the idea of placing things in the right area, with angles and such. Before Left - After Right

the third and forth pics are pre-demo, and the first and second are post-demo. After watching the demo, I started redrawing the penguin and some pokemons (they are cute and have a variety of shapes). Its still hard to get rid of that perfectionism mindset, but I did start focus more on drawing the big shape and visualize the hidden part in the pictures after watching the demo. Construction line is another things that I am not sure if i should use in this exercise, but it did help me to put things in the right spot without drawing bunch of messy lines. By the way, have anyone faced struggles on hovering? I always struggle on drawing on the right side of the canvas, coz I drew with my right hand. Please let me know if you have any techniques :)

So just posting some pre-demo post demo stuff. I want to hightlight a reflection that really helped me from the demo. I can't believe how much better I felt about my drawing once I stopped caring about each of the lines, and just enjoyed how it began to look. I get hooked on how bad my lines are typically, but it was so satisfying to just enjoy to discovery process! all thanks to all the peeps here that have been kind enough to give feedback thus far tomorrow I'm going to try sketching something a bit more difficult then the penguin, I wanna try some anime and pokemon stuff lul.

A few more tries to sketch something else this time. Any critique welcome

After watching demo

Did the girl and penguin first, then watched the demos for those two before attempting the hand. I definitely tried to let myself be a lot more loose and sketchy on the hand, but maybe swung a little too far in that direction! Oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I tried drawing the penguin the same size as it is on my computer screen and then held it up to the screen and traced the areas where I was way off with red pen. The first time I was too fat and too tall, the second skinnier but still tall and the third one half way decent. I still need to improve my line quality but I found this a helpful exercise

First try shown here. These exercises were a bit intimidating, but surprised myself when I first got into it.

Drawing all three again, I am Very happy with the girl, but still struggling with hand - I think I might have been too flowy. Penguin 🐧 - I cant get proportions right, I slimmed it down, but it has now too large head?

Posting some sketches of other stuff as Stan mentioned. It was really fun, especially drawing Louis! Drawing hands is still difficult thouh...Anyways, have a nice day/evening

A few more….

This demo is helping so much, thanks Stan! Have only got through the penguin so far, but have re-tried it and I’m so much happier with it! Will come back and do the other two, but for now, I wanted to celebrate a little win. Here is my first attempt, before the demo, compared to my second attempt. Head proportion is still way off, but I know you said it’s more about the lines now anyway. Any other feedback is super welcome. I think I’m learning how to sketch!

tried the 3 references before watching the demo and then i tried a hand with another ref. would appreciate feedback really much. i really like the line quality but I think it still looks „wrong“

Re-did it multiple time since that been failng at some success at others, behold !one of them : a frog

Just sketching vs. trying to get a nice drawing (with the best proportions possible) Murray Bartlett

My first attempt to draw this,