Here are my simple animal portraits and my attempt at drawing the chicken in a matter of different shape styles. I struggled more than I’ve ever had with imagining the animal in another shape, but after looking at the level 2 demo I feel like I understood it more. at least it look like I did with my last 2 chicken attempts. i will draw more animals in more shapes the next days to try and loosen the knots in my mind. i will gladly take any form of critique!

I haven't watched the critique yet. It's interesting trying to break animals down into basic shapes. I struggled most with the hippo although now he's my favourite.

Getting the concept now but finding it difficult to make the shapes interesting. I guess it comes through studies and practice. Pls feel free to post your critics.

Attempts after watching the demo. This was a interesting assignment, I need to try and draw other animals.

My attempt before the demo (in blue) and after the demo (in red). This was harder than I thought before starting the project. Big improvement on the hippo and the buffalo between attempts, I think. Also did some more animal portraits with references from pexels (third image) before watching the demo.

post demo attempt at the pictures i tried earlier. don't think much changed, very hard to try to think in shapes

The last tiger image didn’t seem to have enough shapes with just ten, so it ended up becoming thirteen.

For level 2 I designed the chicken to be fiercer the buffalo to be goat like and the hippo surprised

Here are 3 animals I drew - before the demo (right side) and after the demo(left). Stan's demo definitely helped.

I hadn't drawn in a couple of days, so I decided to make a copy of Proko's shapes to get back into the swing of things. Have a good day!

Did a few more fidn the shapes

Here is the second half of my simple animal portraits but level 2 this time. Really tried to lean into shape language to make personalities. Struggled a little bit but I feel like I learned a bit. Tried to implement line weight but got tired at the end there. I also exaggerated proportions. Lemme know y’all’s critique or words of encouragement :) it’s encouraged.

Todays excercise

Post-demo drawings!

And now playing with the shapes some.

I tried a few more after watching the demo

I tried to get the shapes into small sketches firstand then do the final drawings. I used markers because I just got them and got excites jeje but I need to learn how to make out the shadows.

I tried sketching more animals after watching the demo

After the demo