Discovered that I really enjoy drawing seals and sea lions. They are so expressive and sorta ridiculous looking, which makes for a fun time!!

Hey Anderson, nice job on the drawing, just a couple of things: the biggest issue is that your penguin is falling backwards, it's balance is shifted back instead of forward like the reference. Check the angle of the back and front and you will see what I mean. I did a diagram to show you what I mean, I hope it helps:)

Got overwhelmed by the prospect of doing two boots (all those laces!) and I didn't position it properly on the page to fully deal with the other boot. So, there's just one. The wooden beam helped when determining the placement and size of the snail. The camel is proportionally wrong, but it was fun to draw all of those long curves. The more I practiced, the more confident I became drawing the contours and not picking up my pencil as much. All done before watching demo.

Hey @andy29! Nice job on this assignment! You kept your CSI lines simple and clean, there's some really nice fluidity to the gesture of the snail body, and you got pretty close on the body proportions! You mentioned you noticed the proportion of the shell being too tall which was the first thing that jumped out to me as well. While you're at this stage of the drawing it helps to look at the drawing in a mirror, or take a photo of your work and flip the image so you can see it with fresh eyes and make corrections. A lot of your proportion, placement, or measuring errors will stick out when you mirror your image and study it for a moment while doing a lay in. Here's an overlay so you can see where you were close to the proportions of the snail body, and where the shell is off. Stan covers a lot about measuring and checking proportions in the next section of basics. Hope this helps! Keep up the good work!