Great work @Hanna Looye! This is an excellent process breakdown. I really like that you kept referencing the simplified sphere idea at each stage. I think you nailed it! If you were to use this as a teaching aid, I’d say you could further simplify each step to more clearly communicate your ideas. Commit to specific rhythms so you’re using the fewest lines possible to convey the big idea, there’s a lot of ghosting and thinking in the first stage and not as many final choices. Think of the Mario Mushroom exercise, where you ghost and then commit to singular fluid lines. Similarly in the contour drawing, line quality can help simplify the overall idea. Using tapered CSI strokes for the contour line drawing will help you maintain a clean simplified linear lay in to add line weight on top of. In the main shadow area the value is applied a little unevenly, so it doesn’t read as a single solid shape of value. Evening out that value shape will help the core shadow read more dramatically by comparison. You bring it all together beautifully in the end by adding the “occlusion shadow,” so your values read very clearly at that stage! Really great advice from @Rachel Dawn Owens, as always! I think applying that idea to this final stage would be a big help to the final image and would keep the final example tied to your simplified rendering at that final stage. Keep up the good work!!

Excellent!! I love the characterization of each, the shape language really informs the personality. The anxious one reminds me of Courage the Cowardly Dog! Awesome work!

Nice! Keep it up!