Took Advice from previous post, went with a lighter pencil for searching lines and heavier for the commit.

Hello everyone. I would like to get some comments on my recent drawings/sketches. I think my first attempts at drawing the penguin and the hand were better, because I was trying to focus on the details. Later, I switched to a more relaxed approach. I also tried to sketch a few more things from reference photos, but I’m not sure if I can really consider them sketches and not just CSI exercises. Thanks!

@Chuck Ludwig Reina Sketching the robot was a little harder as I kept drawing the details. Please critique me

I redrew all 3 images after the demo. boy, I was able to draw them much more strategic and efficient way. I'm happy the way the penguin came out. Hand was still difficult. It looks wider than I intended but tried to remind myself that it is not about the contour. The most helpful tip from the demo was drawing the vr girl. Like Stan did, I drew the line to guide the direction of her body and it was extremely helpful. Drawing boots as a high level structure rather than buried into detail helped me here as well. I still tend to fall back into the perfectionist mode instead of just sketching and experimenting. I'll try the level 2 drawing and see what comes out.

Here are my three studies and my drawings g from imagination. After watching Stan’s demo, I notice how much freer and simpler his strokes are. I admit to being a bit of a perfectionist. For the VR Girl, the boots jumped out at me first so I started there and worked my way up. Ran out of room at the top. I am enjoying this very much! BTW- my draw from imagination was a bit cathartic. Art therapy.

I tried the penguin and then I did a cat from a reference. Maybe the head is a bit small but I think the rest is not so bad XD I’m still not relaxed with my lines, I tremble a bit. I’m probably a bit too much anxious

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Followed along during the tutorial to try again. I like how you mentioned looking for the flow. I did that for the CSI but forgot to do it for this project. I just sucked into the details on the vr girl. Definitely hard to remind my mind to simplify.

So, something that really struck me while watching and sketching along with your demo was the visualization of the line/shape on the page as a whole before you draw it. On the VR girl he stops himself when he sees that he is drawing the contour and not "seeing" the shape. And I realized that I hadn't been doing that. See the before and after demo below. To my eye the 2nd one feels more "alive". Even without the accuracy.

I tried to make some more sketches after having seen the demo. I think that I'm slowly getting there, but I still tend to fall back into bad habits like only using my wrist or pushing the pencil quite harshly. I'm going to continue and start the level 2 project and try to get my lines even more gestural. Any extra feedback is welcome :)

Redid the sketches with the demo. The major difference is not sketching the lines I see, but focusing more on the direction / gesture of what I see, especially with the VR-girl. And yes, the paper was too shore for her ;-)

I tried to find the concept of the drawing more than the quality of the lines. I also outlined the drawing to make it more visible.

After watching the demo I noticed that in my first attempt for this project I focused too much on the cleanliness of my lines, I didn't really think about the flow and energy of the references that I was sketching. So in my second attempt, I tried to do the opposite by making more loose and confident sketches. Here is the results:

Hi! Here are my sketches before and after watching the video. This exercise was a bit more challenging for me, but little by little I’m learning. The first three are before watching the demo. Thank you for your feedback; it helps me keep improving ☺️

Second attempt.. still not sure if my drawing is really sketching.

I drew these two while watching Stan’s hand movements. I just wish I had taken this course when it was being released so I could’ve gotten some feedback on my drawings.

I've been doing a lot of practice between these videos and it's usually a week between video so I feel like I'm seeing some improvements.

I've been doing a lot of practice between these videos and it's usually a week between video so I feel like I'm seeing some improvements.

My lines are so unconfident :(