Difficult. I've drawn many references from masters but didn't realize I was just trying to transcribe the markings. I looked at the light outlines as what he was likely laying in for guiding lines, so that's what the first picture is, showing the process i think he followed. I had to keep telling my self to not copy the lines but instead focus on the rhythm of the lines, the shape, value, etc. I'm interested to watch the demo on this now. It's mentally tiring doing this, more so than when I was blindly copying the marks.

1. Study for the Virgin and Child by Michelangelo. 2. Turtle by Craig Thompson (from 'Habibi'). The original is inked, so this was interesting and tricky. I discovered how the artist uses cross-hatching as a type of shading, which I suspect is very common for traditional engraving work as well.

Did another study of a hand by Ingres - the shading technique he uses elude me - I don't know how get that texture of shading since it doesn't look like hatches or broad strokes

I studied an owl archer character concept from Paul Sullivan for Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time Genuinely surprised by myself and really proud of the result :o

Second study after Alphonse Mucha

study after Ingres - love the economy of line and form the master is able to do with a hard pencil

Study after Alphonse Mucha (La danse)

Decided to do a drawing from Jeff Smith. I like the art style he has.

super fun assignment, and found a lot of inspiration in both Eliza Ivanova and Jeff Watts. Decided to not drive myself crazy by trying to do the big tigers and instead opted for the more manageable one in the top right of his sketch. Ivanovas lines are so sharp and flowey, was a real exercise to even try to approach their line quality

Thank you for Introducing me to Claire Wendling!! her drawings are beautiful. This was definitely a challenge, I felt that I was using everything this course has taught me so far!! This has taught me a lot, I will definitely be adding master studies to my weekly schedule. Criticisms are welcome.

Another study after Glen Keane

So many great artists and I took way too much time deciding but happy with the result. How many master studies do people usually do? Is it something we just do once in a while, or regularly?

Second study after Glen Keane, but it was too big. In the end I didn't really focus on the lines so next time I will do smaller studies. The only thing I noticed is that I love the flow of this drawing, it seems really fluid, everything following the movement of the dancer. I happy with the method of doing a light a bit wrong version then stronger lines and correcting the previous mistakes.

First study of Feifei after Glen Keane, so cute character ! To be honest I don't really know what to learn from these studies (?), I don't understand the line weights on the first one, it seems a bit random ? And for the second one I just thought that every lines except the face features, were quite the same weight, didn't succeed to make it right on my side thought.

Oh man this was really hard. First you have to understand why the line is how it is and then you have to replicate it. I did not know that line weight is so important or that it can change a drawing 😅. Since I did not know which Master to study I chose one from the list. Here you can see the drawing of Peter Han which is posted on his Instagram page and my attempt in replicating it. I really liked this drawing of his and it was the least intimdating for me to try to understand and replicate.

loius wain master study, i got a lot of things wrong but i think i learned something i guess

This master study took me a lot of time and faced so many issues that for my sanity I'm going to ignore it since I couldn't do it for the life of me. The Skull by Diana Pryadieva. As for Garou I gave up 🙂 I also couldn't do the cross hatching on the skull

Stopped on this lesson a couple months ago and am coming back because im going nowhere skill wise lol. Got a little lazy on the lower half, the back sword not matching up to the hilt is by far the stupidest mistake I made in this it hurts to look at now. Tried to copy the line wait but my should movement just isnt there yet completely to make smooth lines.

The one on the left is the original by Peter Han, and mine is the study on the right. I'm pretty sure he used a brush pen so I tried to keep that energy with my pencil lines, and also be accurate.

Here are my master studies and I borrowed some references from y’all please dont blame me