My attempt at level 1! I really love this project :)

I definitely had fun exploring the was to simplify the shapes of the animals. Sadly I forgot to save the photos that I found except the for the lion photo. I also couldn't upload the hippo photo do to how big the file is (how fitting), but I hope you can see the proses of how I made these drawings. There in chronological order (I think) to show how I got better ate understanding how to simplify the shapes of the animals. Pleas, I invite everybody to give me critiques about them.

This was a fun exercise! Looking back at these now, I think there are times when I perhaps could have used simpler shapes than I actually did, particularly in the donkey's head on shot. I also struggled a bit breaking down the cow head into simpler shapes. You can also see I wasn't always saving enough space for the drawing I did and had some lines go off the page or overlap with other drawings. I also filled in the eyes, because I thought the animals looked a little vacant without those filled in. I think my profile donkeys and the dogs are my best in terms of meeting the project's requirements to use simple, organic shapes, but overall I am happy with how everything turned out. I can understand how practicing in this way will help me get better with shape and proportion.

all my first attempts (pre demo video). I found this way harder than i thought it would be, my line confidence seemed to go out the widow when i wasn't exactly sure what a shape should look like, i think i was getting the hang of it near the end though.

Here's my drawings of the hippo and buffalo and a meerkat. I also drew the rooster after watching the demo. @Martha Muniz @Patrick Bosworth

Tried more animals

Hi everyone Here are some animal portraits I made. I also included the snail and camel form the CSI exercise and the monkey from the video. I had such a hard time to be honest. I find shapes to be so incredibly hard and I don't think I quite got it. It feels like I never quite understand how to draw these shapes nor how to see them. Would love a critique on these, thx Have a great day

I drew the hippo and the rooster, which I found when trying to limit how many shapes I would to use is harder than I thought. I'm also not sure if I understood the assignment correctly, so i am happy to get feedback on how I can improve. 🙂

I made these shapes before watching the demo, thinking I would make a second attempt after the video. But now I think that logic-wise these shapes are pretty similar to the ones in the demo video. I think I'll leave it like this. Any critique is welcomed, thank you!

Before demo!

Finally done with the assignment. I think the Buffalo, rooster and rat all came out well. But for some of the other drawings I was rushing too much or too impatient

Before and after (full page) demo. The turned head of the buffalo was tough to simplify, I think drawing it head on like the demo made it a lot easier

Feel like I did better on the camel than the chicken. Also sorry if the lines are hard to see. @Ben Kraske @Chuck Ludwig Reina

I had a lot of fun with this but only when I realized sort of how to do it! The first picture I think is before watching the demo, the others after watching the demo. It was hard making the deer not look like a kangaroo sometimes haha.

Here are my attempts at the assignment. I tried the buffalo on my own, then watched to demos for everything after. I'm going to be honest I struggled with level 2, it's just not something I'm used to doing.

My Level 2 attempt:

Here is another attempt at the simplification exercise. I think this one was harder, since the whole body required more shapes, which forced me to constrain myself even more than if I only did the head.

watched the demo and made these monkeys (or are they apes?)

References for water buffalo, rooster, and hippo, are those provided by the course. Additional references are shown for my cat, and a creature from another planet. I still find it really difficult to draw confident lines that are also accurate lines. My lines always end up looking very scratchy or very searchy.

Here are my first few attempts. After watching the critique video I noticed that I did a lot of mistakes (mostly for the meerkat), so I will redo this exercise tomorrow. Some of the mistakes I did: - Forgetting to break the whole thing into many small shapes and focusing too much on the contours. I should put down shapes on top of each other like paper cutouts instead of morphing contours. - Not closing lines into full shapes - Varying the design by thinking about the whole animal (proportions, expression, personality, etc) instead of how to vary the individual shapes (like making one more dominant than the other). A mistake since this chapter is more about shapes than character design.