Really struggled with these.

Already submitted one of these but I ended up actually doing all of them so here are the notes I taken off of what I observe from my experience drawing these. On the snail, I didn't bother drawing the table and I felt like the shells were too two dimensional. What I did to improve that in the camel drawing is that I took more time with the shape simplification process to see how I can communicate the idea of the camel to myself in visual form. The issue I had with the camel however, is the perspective. It didn't look proportional to the reference in the assignment. In the demo for the camel drawing I found out that I actually had to simplify the shapes I was drawing as a foundation even further, and to be wary of perspective. The skull one I put more of an emphasis of thinking with every line I draw. I would tell myself in my mind as i'm drawing "Do I use an S curve or an C curve? Or should I just use a straight line?". I noticed this helped with drawing confident lines when I think about what curve to use each time I draw a new line. The issue I had with this drawing though is that my mind wanted me to squish the skull vertically more than the reference showed, which made the hat lower than I wanted it to be. So I think I learned from that one to be wary that my mind will want to change what I am drawing to what it likes, despite it knowing its trying to copy the reference. With the boots, I think this is where I felt like my practice really took off. I felt even more confident with drawing the curves and the lines, I was able to think more quickly about them and draw more quickly as a result. I kind of messed up the perspective on the first boot but it actually ended up being a thing where I find ways to modify the reference that i'm seeing in the drawing and that felt like a fun little exercise on its own that I didn't intend nor expect. I didn't bother drawing the laces. I could say that: The snail exercised me to simplify the structure of the drawing into shapes that may not look like the snail at first. The camel taught me to use a combination of S curves, C curves, and straight lines along with a reinforcement of my knowledge of simplifying shapes which I learned from the snail. The skull taught me to think with every single line drawn if I should use an S curve, C curve, or a straight line. The boots one taught me that getting the hang of this sort of thing can make me draw faster and better when I stop to quickly think about what lines to use each time I draw a new one.

I did level 1 & 2 for this assignment (idk why but the pic for the shoes didn't worked so I can't put it.there). I did the level 2 after watching the demo for level 1 and it helped me a lot understanding the assignment and volume placement

So I drew the snail. I would like some criticism on it but I think personally the shell looks two dimensional on the snail, I couldn't figure out how to draw it to where it looks three dimensional on the snail so if anyone could provide a tip on that, that would be awesome!

I did the snail and the boots before watching any demos, then gave the camel a try. I think I was much more successful at keeping the camel loose! But also so proud of these darn boots.

Here are my assignments. Took me forever because I took a break for a bit to do a different project. I also think that I could have simplified the skull and shoes more. Excited to see how I improve after watching Stan's demo.

Gave all 4 a shot, had some fun. Did the snail before watching any critiques - easy peasy. Went on to the boots and got about halfway before getting confused and frustrated by the laces. After watching Stan's demo on the boots, I had a much easier time understanding the approach to drawing through forms and blocking out proportions with straight shapes. Skull and camel felt easier after that. Happy with the results, but definitely see some large proportion errors in each of the drawings.

Tried the assignment with pencil this time. Haha

first try, i think i have problem with proportion and accuracy... i can't really do straigth lines or curve lines with the whole arm. And i got impatient with the details

These are the three drawings that I was able to do for the assignment. I had the most trouble with Snail. I think I might be the happiest with the pair of shoes. I do think I went into this more of copying the image rather than simplifying.

I did these over the course of a few days about a month ago. Maybe I could do with committing to a single line instead of drawing a few over each other... I feel that I did better in that regard with the level 2 drawings. For the skeleton image I did the skull and hat first, then decided I might as well get some practice with observational drawing and went ahead and drew the rest less simply.

My assignments, done in Procreate

Finally attempted the boots I was very intimidated by them at first and they took a while but I am mostly happy with this attempt! Any advice is very appreciated!

Attempt 1 here I’m not feeling great about it but I’m not really sure what is off about it, critique very welcome

Tough challenge

This challenge was quite tough, especially the boots.

I tried the snail more than once on three different days. I think by the third time I started to understand how to simplify. I tried the boots with the first snail attempt and definitely got too caught up in the details. After feeling like I was really getting it on the snail the third attempt, I gave the skull and camel a go, and despite having to erase a few times because my proportions/spacing would go a bit off, I felt really good and much more confident attempting them

This one was a quite tough challenge.