Had some regrets in choosing a bat half way though. Felt like it was hard to come up with a pose, and hard to make it interesting when simplifying since the wings took up so much space. In the end though I was happy with what I came up with. One of the harder exercises. Definitely had to spend more time thinking about what line I wanted to put down before actually drawing something.

Ran out of room and squished the bird. oh well. The hand and the person felt much easier to follow the rhythm lines, although the foreshortening on the hand got tricky at times.

Doing some extra CSI practice

decided to give the boots a try. Kept having to go back and erase shoelaces that were supposed to be underneath other shoelaces.. made it feel a lot messier than the other drawings

Here are my attempts at the level 2 references. It’s a fun assignment. Hardest part I felt was putting the right weight in the correct portion of the curve, as well as getting the proportions correct.

I’ve been working my way through “Fun With a Pencil”, so I thought I’d try using the Loomis method first on a smaller canvas. It turned out alright, but I don’t think I simplified enough. I went back and drew him again using a bigger canvas, starting with hard lines for the borders. I think I did a better job simplifying, but the proportions were definitely a lot harder to get correct. Another struggle was keeping the shading consistent across multiple different sections of the drawing. I found myself switching between different values a bit too frequently. I think a better approach would have been shading everywhere in the image for one specific value at a time. Overall a fun exercise, I look forward to seeing Stan’s approach in the following videos.

Hi @Charles Horton, since our courses are self-paced and will continue to be available for purchase after their completion, users will work on assignments at different times. For example, our Portrait and Figure drawing courses have been finished for a long time, but new users still like to submit their assignments for critique.

This is Awesome! love watching your process. Hope to be able to do the same one day.

Hi, recently got an abundance of free time, and figured I'd try to catch up on this course. All my creatures are inspired by the HP Lovecraft story Shadow Over Innsmouth. The story consists of people living in a small fishing town being forced to breed with the "Deep Ones". Sentient beings that exist in the darkest corners of the ocean, predating the humans of the surface. The result is offspring who develop characteristics of the Deep Ones over time.

That's a good idea. I think several filters for the newsfeed might be useful. What other filters do you guys want to see for the newsfeed?