Here is my level 1 attempt. I tried to keep the shapes simple and hope I at least captured the essence of the lesson

Mixed results for this one. Some I am very happy with. I definitely learned as a I went. I think I would benefit with a bit more observe-and-plan before putting pencil to paper. All feedback welcome

I had a hard time understanding the big bulk that is on the back of the gorilla, and I guess is hair? But let me know what you think. And I think I overcomplicated the Lv. 1 portraits. Feels like I didn't played enough with the shapes, what do you think?

This was hard, but fun! I tried each animal a few times until I thought they were good enough. I'm proud of the rooster!

This assignment was great because it forced me to look at the subjects in a different way than I typically would. It was a tad difficult at the start, but applying the knowledge from the previous lesson helped steer me in the right direction.

Went ahead and did this one twice. Had A LOT of fun with it. Breaking things down into simple shapes was hard at first, especially with the animals that weren't looking directly at the camera or were a side profile. Took me a bit to figure out a good way to take the perspective into account with the shapes. My First attempt I had the images on the canvas as I drew and found it to be a bit distracting. I think I was trying to hard to match proportions and exact placement of things. I also had to draw things a little smaller which didn't help. On my second go, each page was dedicated to a single animal and I think I did WAY better! I plan to incorporate this as something to do just after my warmups since it's a lot of fun trying to figure out what shapes work and I think I still need a lot of work/practice to nail some of the harder animals/shapes. Had a blast, and excited to do more!

Buffalo

I was thinking about splitting the portraits into both non-overlapping 2d shapes and others into overlapping 3d shapes. I know the latter one was more the focus but somehow I needed to process them in both ways when I tried to decide how to turn them into shapes, and which shapes to use. I was at first worried about using shapes that are too complicated but I later relaxed a bit. The first attempts turned into some sort of cubism exercise for me, which wasn't the point I think. Slowly I was able to play with proportions more. At first I was a bit stuck on the original proportions too much, until I think I started to get the idea. Round shapes seem easier to stretch around without losing too much likeness and turning it into a different animal altogether, like the bunny.

Hello! Here are my level 1 drawings done before looking at the demo. Had many questions while working on some of them, of course often not quite sure what to keep as a simple enough shape. After checking out the demo I think it's clearer :)

OK, tbh I'm hoping I did this right. I tried to not use forms at all and literally just use simple shapes. I intentionally didn't worry about proportions or making them match the reference pictures at all. They came out looking silly, but I expected that. I love doing the projects before watching the demo/critique to see how close I was, mindset-wise.

Here are my drawings. I took some time for this task to really understand the different shapes and their significance. I think the lions turned out pretty well. some feedback would be great :)

Would love any advice on the drawings

Really happy with my final result. Very simple, some personality and the chance to put to use some line weight. I let some of my studies aro7nd the final piece .

Outline on Level 1, Shading around Level 2. I thought it would be funny to tilt the entire head of the buffalo and keep it's lower jaw straight for lvl 2 compared to lvl 1 where just the jaw is tilted... maybe not that funny.. Any critique and feedback on my attempt will be greatly appreciated :)