I did one more master study of Jess karp. Didn’t know it was so fun to draw old men with curly hair and beard! This one went alot faster about half the time than the other Jess karp study portrait. 3h+ instead of 6h+. It was also with a alot softer pencil so I didn’t had to draw as many times on the same marks. I did the eyes on mine deliberately more open.

Came back to the course after a long hiatus and remade some studies from the same The Art of Spyro book, enjoyed it a lot!!!

It was difficult, and I'm not entirely sure if that was the intention of the project, but I tried to analyze the lines used as best I could.

I want to start to sketch in my sketchbook again and I’m in ave when I see artists vill there sketchbook with something that looks like finished drawings. I saw Jess karp doing a stylized portait on YouTube. I felt wow i want my sketchbook to be filled with sketches that looks something like that. So i did a line art study of her piece. And i thought i could go back here and post it. And i Will draw more. It was really fun. ( I know i used exactly same pencil as her. Prisma color col-erase indigo blue. Still colors looks so different. I couldnt get the darks as dark as hers) Hers is more charicaturish than mine.

First attempt, but I'm not sure I'm doing this right

could't do the pose right, but it was fun!

Pre-demo. Chose to copy part of H.J. Ford's "Sindbad Carried off by the Roc" for this assignment. Heartily regretted that choice in very short order, but learned a lot by taking a stab at this. (Though I am still marveling at the use of negative space to make black feathers. Tough to do with a pencil, but I bet not easy with ink, either.)

I thoroughly enjoyed reviewing the work of a number master artists for this project. I had never done such a review. After a number of hours of doing so, I went back and selected a botanical piece by Leonardo DaVinci, a still life by Albrecht Durer and a wildlife sketch of a cougar by Aaron Blaise to study. I enjoyed studying the lines and then creating them in my own sketch. I am so enthralled by this activity of studying Masters, I have just ordered a book that Stan recommends via his podcast and website, Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters by Hale. Undoubtedly I will do more of these studies as I develop my skill and style.

I chose Heinrich Kley for the line master studies. His lines are so confident and seems so quick that it made the assignment extremely difficult. I dint use as many line in my sketches but i tried to emphasis by using many lines but I feel because it is sparse it looks like I made mistakes. Would love some help on this. Thanks!

I did JC Leyendecker, definitely need more work with my consistency but had a lot of fun!

Hello, study of the lines of Eliza Ivanova, Claire Wendling, Glen Keane, David Malan. I took the suggested list, thank you very much for all this inspiration, I will draw more of their works. I had so much fun : )

Okay, so that was super fun! I found a Dave Malan drawing that I loved. There are some super clean lines in the face and some very heavy rough lines in the hair and forearms. I definitely need to do more of these. It was really cool identifying things we have learned and seeing how they were likely being considered when the pro was making the original. As always, proportions are off but fortunately,y since the original had the proportions of a child it kind of made mine just seem like an adult, haha. There's a lot I'm happy with in this :) First thing I noticed, too is that I got the value of the lines in the hair quite a bit off. Probably could have pulled out a darker pencil for those lines. I think I was working with a 4b if I remember correctly.

First master study of Dave Malan! It’s for sure more difficult to get the longer lines to do what I want them to and I noticed I gotta keep my pencil sharpened up well for the lines to look right in this style and be crisp. And the proportions are off especially on the nose and forehead but I had fun with it and am getting more use to this style of lines. Love Dave’s work!

I had no idea there's such a thing called line weight. I learnt a lot in this lesson ans now I can tell my line quality is bad... haven't fix it yet and now i practice just doing lines..but at least now I can tell it is bad! Didn't get to master studies yet as mi lines are medium..but here I tried using the line weight on some portraits( or attempt to portraits). Any advice of any kind is much appreciated

I really wanted to draw some animals so i took some drawing ref on Pinterest to study the lines and process. I don't think it qualify as a master study per se but i had fun ✌️

Glen Keane is one of my favorite animators. His lines are messy but so expressive. This a still from Duet. Since the background is dark I had to do the line art inverted, with the thickest and lightest parts being the brightest. My lines are shaky and not very confident unfortunately. My sketch always looks so nice, then my lineart looks awful. 😞

I did Eliza Ivanova. I had a hard time. I was trying not to get distracted by proportions and shading. I feel like there isn’t enough variation and like I’m struggling achieving a tapered look. Feedback appreciated

Here I studied Frank Frazetta and Kan Muftic. I’ll definitely have to do more. A lot of the times I caught myself just coping what I see instead of study what the artist did to get specific lines. I liked the Kan Muftic studies because it forced me to use the edge of the pencil and not hold it as the tripod method. I used Col-Erase colored pencils as a challenge.

Did my master study after I watched the demo

My first line study I tried a drawing by Rembrandt. And that was very fun to do. Proportions are as always a problem for me. Getting the lines look right is also very difficult (they are scratchy). What did i found in this drawing: -Almost no straight lines -the tapering gives lot of sense of depth/distance -the light comes from the left and there are thinner llines there (and a bit lighter) -shadows are mostly made by thicker lines -there is accent on the faces for importance -the dress is not as dark as I expected, specialy at the feet (I did this to dark) What do I like in this drawing: The variety of the llines so that i keep discovering new ways to draw lines.