I went for a Tim Sale. Don’t think I quite captured the foreshortening.

Exercising lineweight and different strokes.

Found @InkJohners on Pinterest and his zombie Pokémon drawings are just amazing! I will do some Peter Han studies as well.

I’m still very hesitant to put every line, and I don’t feel very satisfied with what I did. But I really like the original drawing by Glen Keane — it has a great variety of lines.

Decided to try completely different line style (copy after @distesa18). This was hard, they are so thin and sharp!

I chose Feefal(@Feefal) because I’ve just bought her amazing artbook and was very happy to recreate some of her drawings

Choose Jean Auguste- Dominique Ingres

I decided to use Tb Choi for this assignment. I always wanted to study her art/work, and I thought this assignment would be the perfect opportunity to do that.

Doing a few more master studies. Does anyone have any information on Richard Powell (@rchrd.powell insta). I assume he's a commercial artist- most likely an animator? Thanks!

Master study of Dr. Seuss and Tim Sale. Not my best work. My lines still feel hesitant.

from David Malan

Well I chose Frazetta even before I saw it as one of the suggested artists, I've always loved his drawings, they are so dynamic. Trying to understand how he's done his sketches is certainly hard, it seems like a lot of fluid lines, some c curves and straights in certain areas, but a lot of flowing lines including loops where he's using them to indicate motion or form. I focused on just the bear mostly on the first image then tried to do the complete woman and horse, I know I've got proportions and such wrong but I just tried to keep with the exercise of looking at lines.

I tried Dave Malan

I also tried Richard Powell ( @rchrd.powell insta). Great reels showing his technique- nice exemplars for CSI, line weight, overhand grip etc...Any comments/critiques welcome- thanks!

Jemima Puddle-Duck by Beatrix Potter, my attempt.

I chose Heinrich Kley for my line master study. 😁

I chose Peter Han for this assignment since I really appreciate how he often uses bold shadowing, a mix of sturdy and loose lines, and will often draw in a way that implies form rather than drawing it out. Rather than drawing out a full piece, I focused on a few components from different pieces that caught my attention: 1) the sword in the corpse in the first drawing; 2-3) the bottom jaw and horned-skull of second drawing; and 4-5) the right-most fish as well as the bottom portion of the dragon in the third drawing. What a truly humbling experience trying to emulate his linework. There are innumerable things I can see that I got wrong, but also it was interesting to study when he would opt for finer details in regard to variable line weight, hatching direction and spacing (and the variability of that), and even the presence/absence of lines (such as with the back half of the fish). With each of these choices there seems to be a mix of him thinking through communicating form as well as deciding what parts of the drawing to emphasize and capture attention vs be pulled into the cognitive 'background'. I definitely want to do more of these periodically!

I love Children’s book illustrators. Maurice Sendak, John Tenniel, Beatrix Potter, and E. H. Shepard were all important parts of my childhood. So I couldn’t resist including the classic Eyore as part of this project. I tried to use my phone as a reference, so I didn’t know how off my proportions were until I saw them here. However, I do feel like I captured some of the spirit of the original. That’s the point, right?

Line Master study from Richard Powell :)