Although I am a very diligent student, I skipped this assignment when I went through the course for the first time - I felt kind of “not ready” for it. I chose the Polish illustrator Jan Marcin Szancer and his Marie from The Nutcracker. I loved his illustrations as a kid. He used subtle, loose, sketchy lines. I finally understood why my own fineliner drawings feel stiff. I’m just too afraid to use loose, wavy, broken lines. Now I see, how beneficial this exercise is and have more Polish artists on my list "to do": Maja Berezowska Mirosław Pokora Daniel Mróz (btw., illustrator of Stanisław Lem's books)

Hey, what do you think so far??  I'm not really trying to copy them exactly. Just tryna get a feel and develop and figure style as well. This exercise was mainly to study lines and stuff of various artists and also figure out what I like. I really liked the flowy nature of the work cause I actually enjoyed the process of this drawing feeling the flow so yep (Claire Wendling)

Got back on pencil for this project. It is my first master study, and I chose a Tsukasa Abe drawing from the Frieren manga. I think I did okay, but imo controlling line weight on pencil is harder than on digital. I also struggled with getting fluid lines due to the size of my drawing. Next time, I think I should isolate parts of the master's work and draw it larger.

Spent a long time on these studies! Especially the Watts skull, I’ve been studying his work for several years and I still went through an entire charcoal pad before I was satisfied lol. I like how the Robert de la Torre studies came out, I think I got a little bit better in replicating his stylistic choices on each drawing. The last head is by Esben Lash, and I spent the far shortest amount of time on it. I think it’s not quite as successful in capturing the expression, and losing the top of the head did my no favors. Feedback appreciated, this was a fun assignment

This is a Line Master study of Shigaraki's arm from Kohei Horikoshi. I thought the whole panel was far too complex so I focused on something smaller.

Study of Ayami Kojima, before watching the demo. Proportionally it's a bit of a mess, and I think my focus on that lead to stiffness in my lines. I'd love any critiques on it

I did a study of Dave Malan. Despite the fact that I was clearly not able to capture the same facil expression of the girl, I would like to know how close/far I am from the capturing the lines

I did a master study of Claire Wendling's "Fée au Champignon". I looked at a bunch of different line artist but her work tickled something in me with its whimsical subject matter and effortless lines. I am a bit torn, very proud of what I was able to accomplish but in the same time have done her work an injustice. I feel as though I was able to capture some of the essence of her work, but lost a lot of the effortless airy nature in the lines (my lines were not effortless at all and it shows lol). I am glad to have found an artist whose work resonates with me and I can feel and enjoy, and for what I learned in this master study and have gained some things I wish to incorporate into my own style on my journey. In watching some videos of her work (which is memorizing) I saw that she (at least in the videos) uses colored pencils. I would like to try another master study of her work using colored pencil instead of graphite in the future.

For my studies, I decided to focus on Kamome Shirahama, author of the Witch Hat Atelier series, and Takayoshi Sato, the character designer for the Silent Hill series. The struggle with translating Shirahama's work was the larger areas of black in the drawing, and thinking about how I could translate that with line. Looking at the thumbnail from a distance, it seems to have worked decently, but I'd be loathe to make that same assessment if I was closer. Studying a manga panel in particular was illustrative of just how fine the strokes on a page can get, and part of the challenge was controlling thickness as much as tonal quality. Sato's sketchwork was much more difficult to emulate, however. Something that I'm not only noticing in hindsight is how the line work around the side and front of Eddie's (the character) face indicates the plan on which the lines are traveling, informing the directionality of his sketch, something I definitely think I missed, looking back at my own attempt.

First try at the Jeff Watts master study! I did it with a pencil because I'm not really comfortable with charcoal.

i guess i'm not a big fan of master studies because i really had to force myself to "finish" this assignment. i did two studies of eliza ivanovas artbook and already had a hard time with the lines. Her lines often seem to be drawn in one stroke? Which looks nice on paper but was hard to replicate. Also there are these random lines that just happen during the drawing process. Can't tell if i really learned something regarding lines, but at least i tried... feedback as always much appreciated.

another Heinrich Kley...

I tried to do a couple different studies. I did Charles Gibson, Glenn Keane, and Jose Garcia. I think my proportions are off, but I hope it looks somwhat like the artists style! It was very hard to replicate the artists' tapered lines. Also, drawing faces is hard lol! Does anybody have any tips on how to do thick tapered lines? I can do fast, thin tapered lines okay but when I look at glen keanes work, his lines look thick/ darker but very smooth. Is there a better pencil I should use or is it using the overhand grip or drawing with the sideof the pencil rather than the tip or something else? I use an HB/2B pencil most of the time.

Heinrich Kley

Trying to do a Gibson Girl...

My attempt of a crocodile by Heinrich Kley. All the fine details are hard to get with pencil but I hope I am getting the point of this exercise. I got thick dark outlines, the small lines following the form, more darker hatching in the shadow areas. Any feedback and critique is appreciated

I attempted Charles M. Schulz’s Snoopy! Any feedback is appreciated 🙏

I saw a submission using Studio Ghibli reference, absolutely loved it! Which reminds me of an underrated Ghibli movie, The Tale of Princess Kaguya. A really beautiful film, slow paced, but really got audience rethink about many things. (Highly recommend anyone to watch it if you have the time!) So I decided to go with this. The lines were quite subtle in my opinion, but also emphasized when needed to. So here’s my submission. Appreciate any feedback that can help me improve! :)