Even though I am clearly at level one, I wanted to try drawing each animal using the different shapes (I did not do the exaggerated or character designs. Felt like I got it with the rooster but struggled hard with the hippo. Without the reference photo, I don't think I'd guess it was a hippo.

a dolphin

these are my studies of Stans interpretations. I'm planning to attempt my own tomorrow with these as inspiration and guide

Here I have some examples I did after watching the first 10-11 minutes. I was busy, and even I felt lazy, but I could practice and apply what Stan teached in this class. It wasn't hard at all :)

THB, I had a lot of fun doing these simple shape drawings, and hopefully I get to do more (ᵔᴥᵔ)

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Really had a lot of fun doing this!!!.. Making moree

👋🙌, I enjoyed this assignment, will definitely revist and push designs more with the variations in size and shapes.

I really enjoyed this project, it was very helpful for my shape and line quality practise. I gave all my animals names that I thought would suit them too!

After the demo version I was really motivated to create my own little animals:-)

fox, leopard and dog critique please

Llamas and cows!

Drawing Basics- Simple Animal Portraits- Level 2-- Not quite daring enough to completely transform the horse, but I tried to follow Melanie's advice (thanks!) about considering the complete shape: I drew a general "shapes" horse, deconstructed it to make sure there were actual shapes, then reconstructed it and detailed it up a bit. Then I also tried the 3 sushi-chef shapes: circular, triangular, rectangular.

Had a lot of fun with this one, i dont usually feel comfortable exploring with character design and simplifying the animals first to basic shapes has helped me a lot!

Learning how to be free and explore more but these shape lessons are fun and looking to keep building up the skillset of manipulating shapes. Stan makes it fun! Any feedback is welcome

This is my attempt for level 2 before the demo. I was struggling with this exercise in the beginning because I felt that I was too safe, and too geometric with my shapes. If you take a look on the first image on the left, chickens 1 to 3 were too stiff, and too geometric. I did not know how to stretch my shapes or how to. It felt a bit like I had to draw from imagination. So I went on pinterest and studied some designs visually. I went back and did chickens 4 to 6 and I did my best to be loose and not so perfect. I wanted to make my shapes more organic. So with each animal I focused on stretching the circles, squares and traingles. I hope it looks good. :/

One thing I observed when coming up with new shape designs is that the idea to come up with is kinda hard in its own. Designing and modifying the shapes wasn't the hard part for me, but coming up with ideas for different and interesting shapes was the challenging thing for me. Any advice would be much appreciated.