Both snail and boots before and after. Found the laces super challenging, but relatively happy with them in the end!

Wow talk about a difficulty spike from the pear lol. The snail was a lot more enjoyable Than the books for me, I found myself getting very frustrated with the general shape of the boots and decided to cut my losses to not burn myself out. I feel like I’m missing something or I have the order of how to do things wrong. I would appreciate if anyone shares my struggles or has feedback on how to improve!

it was difficult to fight against the habit of making incertains little lines but I try and I try to respect proportions...I did the camel too big for my paper ^^ but I like it.

these are not the best pictures, sorry! the sketch paper I use is slightly toned, and although I took the pictures clearly lit by lamp, they still required a lot of contrast adjustment that kinda almost broke the pictures. In any case, I hope the quality of the sketch can be viewed and critiqued properly. drawings were both done before watching demo and Proko's critique the snail was pretty straight forward, but the shoe... oh man... and all those laces... the forshortening of the shoes was the hardest to draw. I think it is the weakest aspect of the drawing. But overall, happy with the result! thank you for looking and critique!

Here’s what I did for the csi assignment. I did a couple more to make sure I got it down. The laces were super tricky/tedious ngl

These are my first attempts at the level 1 pictures before watching the demo. The boots were way harder than expected, buuuut I tried!

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.