Your process breakdown was so helpful :) Not sure where I should post all four of my attempts, so dropping them here. Looking forward to learning to measure more accurately and shade more evenly.

I learned a lot from this demo. Thanks very much! One question I have is about the shadow on his right cheek (left side). Is that a shadow of the hair strands? If we're taking a sculpting approach and leaving out the hair over his face, should we also exclude the shadows created by that hair? I took the opposite approach (before watching this demo) and included the hair strand that appears to be causing that shadow.

First attempt: I completely missed the point of this simplification exercise. I went on auto-pilot and overdid it. Me going on auto-pilot also shows with the proportions. I stretched the face too much, because I was drawing this flat on a table on a vertical sketchbook. The angle I was drawing this on skewed my view I think. Second attempt: After watching the demo. I was drawing with the sketchbook as parallel to my view as possible lol! I think this followed the exercise better. Though I might have made the shadows on the forehead too big? Still, I am happy that doing this exercise nailed down the idea of simplicity and abstraction first, though I’m sure I could’ve simplified my attempt more!

Hi this is my attempt of the portrait. I feel like some things could be improved in terms of shading, but that is a motivation to keep learning. Any form of feedback is welcome.

This assignment's got hands. I don't but that's what we're here to work on~

I'm not "advanced" but figured I would try this anyways. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Portrait drawing after watching the demo. Next step: mushrooms :)

Good grief this is one of the worst drawings I've ever made in my life. I will say I am relatively new to using Krita so I was a bit confused as to the choice of brush I should use, when it came to shading I was zoomed in for too long before I realized the homunculus I was drawing. I didn't watch the demo, but I went straight to kind of just doing exactly what I wasn't supposed to do here, the airbrush was a poor choice and the contours are all over the place. I decided to go back and draw the pear after watching the demo and I can at least confidently say that drawing is much better than this one lol.

tried again after watching the professors video, tough without the right pencils grabbing a real set of drawing pencils for next assignment

Having so much fun!

I did today the potrait, at fist I struggled so I start to watch the Demo. I tried not just copy, I hope that was successful.

Simplified Apple

Simplified portrait from observation

I only did the pear at first because I consider myself as a level 1. But after the demo, I wanted also to give a try to the portrait exercise. So, here is my attempt.

my attempt. Was much harder than I had thought, and spent way too much time on it. x)

Third attempt, took my time with it and tried to keep it clean. Feel like I learned a lot from this exercise, thanks for the lesson Stan!

before and after the demo! Super useful, I feel like I’ve struggled to block in proportions while drawing for a long time. Turns out I haven’t been simplifying nearly enough. I feel like I could still spend more time blocking in proportions on top of paying more attention to my hatching while laying down values. I also wish I spent more time on the hair and the chunks of light and shadow happening. But many lessons learned!