I'm glad you brought on Jeff to talk about this stuff. I feel like the more exciting things reveal themselves as you move further into art and get deeper into more advanced topics. And I'm not someone who generally looks at other people's art that much and forget why I got into this in the first place, so seeing a master's work and his explanation of some of the more advanced things in a simplified way for beginners is definitely an inspirational boost! :D Thank you Jeff and Stan! I hope to see more guests in future lessions as well to stoke my inner art fire. Thank you!

I shaded even though I wasn't supposed to, but I did it on a different layer. Was a fun project :D Any critique would be appreciated! :) Study of Frazetta

i put up 2 of the Shadows and light direction method but the 2nd one is not lvl 2. it's the same as the first Shadows and light direction method except with lowered brightness so the lines are easier to see cuz they were too light in the first one.

Tried to make a puppy + nietzche + c.g jung. Didn't make my drawings sketchy enough and spent too much time undoing and redrawing lines and I don't think it was a good use of my time. Dog on the right was the final sketch, but I was too tired of this assignment to add any details to make it more 3D. I'll try to remember the instructions better next time.

definitely much quicker than the last assignment. took me about 1hr rather than the 5+ for the last one lol

Took days, but I felt my skills improve as I worked through it and I got a little faster towards the end. My sizes were off though, top of my boots were smaller than bottom part for both of them, and the laces were too small. I need to check the sizes and ratio of different parts of the image throughout the piece and measure things to make sure I get the sizes correct. I'm also not sure if I simplified enough. I think I zoomed in and focused on details too much and didn't simplify the shapes enough, especially for the boots. I'm not sure though, I'll have to check to see how Stan did it in his demo. Any critique would be much appreciated! Thanks! :)

got more out of this than i expected. great warmup! :)

I made a mistake of trying to hide some of the lines for my shapes by erasing them, then remembered I'm supposed to leave those in. Had a pretty hard time struggling to figure out how to get the right pen pressure since I'm not used to drawing with digital. I also didn't fully understand what was meant by "make every edge sharp" I think I did that for most of them except for maybe on top right quarter of the pear? I'm really unsure. Any critique would be much appreciated! :D Also, idk if I should be doing the beginner or the intermediate version. The only course I've done before was DrawABox by Irshad Karim and got through like 98% of it, pretty much rage quit halfway through lesson 7 though I might come back & finish it later. I didn't receive any critique doing that course as I did the free version. So if someone can tell me whether I should do beginner or intermediate version that'd be great, cuz I can't really tell. (maybe both? idk) Thanks in advance! Also, how do I do the "asked for help" thing I saw on other posts? I'd love to get critique from one of the mods/instructors.