I redid the project after watching the demos, and the blocking out that stan does at the start of these pictures is actually really helpful! It helped me get a rough idea of the shape, and all I've had to do is just draw everything on top of it, making tweaks as I please. It also allows me to be more accurate, as if I spend a bit of time in the blocking stage, I'll get the perspective and proportions right, plus, simplify the shapes in a way that makes my time drawing a lot easier. I can definitely see the improvement from my previous post. I tried to watch out for my curves a lot more, and if something started being a mix of two types of lines, I drew them as two seperate lines. For the snail, I drew the sketch on top of the blockout, so you can kind of see how I went about it, and the changes I made when doing the sketches. I'm the most proud of the boots. It looks pretty accurate to the picture reference, aside from the laces, which I didn't bother trying to make perfect.

Boots before and after watching the demo

I found the snail to be easy to work on but the boots were a lot trickier, I don’t think I’m good at adding that much detail yet

Second try, drawing along with the demo! Man, those laces are really difficult to draw 😂

Snail before and after video.

Tried again after watching the Demo. This time with one of my old birthday cards that I kept.

Here's my snail after viewing the demo

Here's my before and after the demo snail and boots drawing. The boots were very hard.

I felt really good about the snail after implementing the simplify strategy. Also generally about the boots but I have to admit, it's late at night and I ran out of steam. Then again, I don't think we were really intended to do a bold outline but I liked how that left shoe looked so much that I raelly wanted to do it! I feel like I'm grasping simplification at this point.

This project helped me be confident in my lines! I had to erase but it was fun! I’m watching the video now and follow it.

My attempt at pre & post drawings. I found the shoe laces quite challenging and noticed I got a bit impatient drawing them!

Shoes definitly felt like level 2 .. took me a while. snail looks odd...

this was so hard, this is before the demo

Something definitely clicked after watching the demo. Describing the motion as "pulling" when putting a line down really helped relax my lines a little. I don't know why lol Anyway, before and afters (before on top):

The boots almost made me stick my pencil through my ipad. It's so hard to make sense of the laces, trying to keep fluidity of motion while drawing while being accurate enough with all the details to not have the boots drift off. And then there's so many parts of the shoes that are out of focus and creased, making folds. Idk if the intention really was to make it this tricky, but to me this felt more frustrating than challenging.

The first drawing is before the demo. The two drawings after are my second and third attempt at the snail after the demo. I seem to get worse after the demos. My line quality appears horrendous to me. I'm definitely pressing too hard and need to ease up. I feel like my thinking gets better after the demo but the output gets worse. A bit discouraging. I'm going to attempt the boots one more time but I'm a little apprehensive to try at the moment. Any and all feedback is welcome. Thank you and take care!