Oof, drawing straight lines to a point is harder than it seems, even with all the practice! I might have gone overboard with them, got kinda messy. After placing the sink in the right spot I realized the water would just spill downwards! Guess I didn't sink that through. So I decided to put a bathtub under it! Talk about a sink cost fallacy huh. Looking forward to inventing more rooms, I wish I could add non - boxy objects though :)

3rd and final batch where I added 3 extra gesture drawings I have made in last days

second session on this assignment. Big difference to first batch: since I was on a plane I had to reduce paper size to A5 and use what I had at hand - ie ballpoint pen. So my excuse for messy lines is the shaky environment and the impossibility to erase lines

Got started but couldn’t resist the great weather today and went painting outdoors. This said, after warming up, I got used to the overhand grip and managed to adapt better my occupation of the A3 page size toward the last ones

Here is my submission. I tried to apply some of the things we've learned so far, sorry if I made a mess!! D: This one was difficult but very fun.

A great reading about those topics is actually the book “picture this” by the Molly Bang which I am reading again triggered by this section of the course

Had fun doing this assignment

I think I started too soon experimenting with shapes, I I need to  Draw these  animals many times in different angles and only after that start doing level two but I was so exited and couldn’t stop 😁

Did multiple tries with proportions, types of lines and distorting big geometries. The buffalo was the toughest for me

2 versions of the same couplet and I still struggle with using the kneadable eraser when I try to stop from darkening the value to create uniformity: it kind of creates a fatty smudging that changes the paper surface structure than I cannot. Properly work on afterwards.

my first try without stan's demo ..

Yesterday, sketching outdoors with a group of friends I couldn’t resist this beautiful model posing free of charge for us. Did a quick pencil sketch and made a new observation I wanted to share. Although the sun was coming from the left the left part of her face and arm showed a darker tone than the upper part of her chest… not intuitive! I believe I have found a rationale answer but thought I would question the community for their views before posting my assumption. Anybody up for the challenge?

This course is one I kind of revisit very regularly and learn something every time.

Couldn’t resist doing an extra study of this amazing portrait that really captured my attention not only because of the beauty of the model but also because of the drawing style

When drawing from observation is getting the correct line you observe just pure intuition ? If you are not measuring. I feel like i have been really overthinking drawing from observation lately. Are you guys focusing hard on the line you are seeing on your subject and going line by line until your done. Or do you interpret the shape of your subject more and try to copy ? I hope this made any sense. I feel like the awnser is that you guys dont really think about it and just pull your line and im overthinking it.

I did the copy of Lane Brown's the portrait of the girl. Although the original was done in charcoal pencil, I did mine in pencil. Any feedback is welcome.

Here are a few master studies I did from artists I like and admire. Ranges from apparently scribbled lines with Heinrich Kley and Paschalis Dougalis creating dynamism to the total absence of line with Berthe Morisot’s. I also found interesting the use of coloured paper to play with shadow and highlight lines enabling focus but also volume rendering

while doing a personal portrait project, I thought I would after doing the pencil block in try to go through the line weight organisation as a practice before doing the shading (final project with shading can be seen in my portrait album but not appropriate for this assignment)

Here’s my assignment of drawing from where after studying a few giraffe calfs and the skeleton of giraffes, I have tried to imagine an awkward position for the calf trying to stand up. Not so happy with the inked version where I tried to use a brush pen

Here’s my attempt to level 1 exercices. Used both ballpoint and pencil. The karaoke humanoid was my first attempt and although the right hand is not in the right position, I am pretty happy with the outcome. The pinguin and the hand were much more of a challenge. The second pinguin with pencil is better I think