I definitely understand that urge! Drawing is fun and the act of whittling away at a piece can be its own reward sometimes. Your line quality feels pretty good in most places and you don't seem to be having too hard of a time with massive erasing and replacing areas. But don't be afraid to acknowledge where some parts aren't right, either. Looking at the penguin's outer arm, it's lower than the other. Depending on the purpose of your drawing, proportion and placement may come second to designing. The same goes for the hand here. You did GREAT job on the middle two fingers. They feel pinched and appropriately curved. Those fingers come to some sharp points, though. If you end up choosing to design shapes in this way on purpose, having the thumb and pinky be pointy while the index comes to a box tip would make them all flow a little bit more.

These are solid! One thing I'd suggest is getting your initial sketch in with simple, light lines before going in and trying to push shapes. You'll see it all over the lessons in this course and Stan's videos in general. On your rooster, the wattle under the rooster's neck feels a little more droopy than the reference. This can come from you trying to communicate a few different things but if you get that initial shape in at the start, then you can push and pull your final lines without having to worry about the overall suggestion of the form changing. Keep sharing your progress! I'd love to see it.

I think your values across all of these are pretty solid. the only think that I think ends up reading more pronounced that you'd be looking for if the cheek on the left side of the drawing. While the reference does have a shadow that goes through that area, the big leap from the lighter value to the darker one makes that plane change feel even more steep. In your earlier thumbnail sketch, you suggested a break in that shadow area and that communicated that plane change while not giving so harsh of an impression. That being said, that shadow side of the face is rendered gorgeously, with delicate details and a great family of values.

Nice! You've got some good things going on here. The penguin's the strongest of them and I really like the placement of it all. Feels the most confident of the group. As for the VR girl, I'm not sure what to give you for the help request since you seem to be saying you diverged from the proportions on purpose. But characters stretching and warping if you are aiming for the same proportions as a reference would be a big thing to watch out for. We can all drift a little from our intended shapes sometimes. Thanks for sharing!

These turned out pretty well!! You're really selling the front edge line weight in that first drawing. One thing to assess a couple times throughout the drawing is whether our line weights are consistent with what we want to say. It seems that your rhino horn and legs are heavier to imply closeness. But the the neck between the horn and leg has a much thinner line weight so it makes it feel a bit more like the thick line is stylization, rather than being about the depth. I noted that are in blue. Another thing you can do to really push that depth is to have the overlapping areas change in line weight like in the humps of the back and where the font legs overlap the things behind them. You're off to a great start and seem to be NAILING your proportions. Keep at it and share your work more!

The penguin looks freaking great! You nailed that thing!!! The thumb and index finger on the Spider-man hand feel pretty far away from the middle two fingers as a product of some proportion changes. It wasn't TOO extreme of a shift but did stick out while looking at it. I overlaid the two images loosely to compare, like Stan shows in a later Basics lesson. A good check for this would be using the size of the middle fingers against the size of the index. Please keep sharing what you work on! I'd like to see more of it!

Hands ARE hard!! You've got a lot of great stuff going on here where you're getting the overall structure laid in wonderfully! A thing I do notice is where you've departed from drawing the actual shape of something you see and started to draw what you think you see. For the Spider-Man pose hand, the fingers pinch together towards the tips, while the knuckles widen outwards. Having that tapering angle makes you feel the tension in the fingers and the motion of it more. You're doing great so far and I look forward to seeing more of what you post!

These look great! You've got some really strong structure here. As you continue your practice, don't be afraid to push and pull the form a little bit and give it a little more life. You have some areas where you do depart from a rigid structure and that does a lot! But you could do it a bit more often. Here's a Proko YT short about that if you're interested! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iiBepQESK78

I can see you sticking to the shapes rather than getting caught up in the details. That’s great and you got some good proportions in here! There’s a recent Proko video with some tips on line quality that I think you might find useful. You have some really solid lines here but there are a couple areas like on the top of the penguin head where you repeated lines a lot. The CSI line construction technique might be handy to you. It’s the last one in the video: https://youtu.be/lTslVOUJ0jI?si=IlbAoM9zaND9TUZe Thanks for sharing your drawings!

There are some good rhythms and shapes here, making the curve of the bodies feel like cohesive wholes. Way to go!

Hey m there! There's some good stuff in here. You avoided a lot of the issues that some artists can come across while drawing four-legged animals. Good job on that! On your "from imagination" sheet, the neck of the animal feel out of sync with the line of the chest that should lead through to the neck. That might be a leftover line from your original construction of the body but it holds a lot of attention with how dark and thick that areas of lines are. With that same animal, I'm not sure if the part protruding from the back end is a tail or a leg. The rest of the pose is very firm and stable, making a leg kicking back feel out of place. Keep sharing what you work on and practicing from those references! I love seeing these.

It's interesting to see the pretty big difference in line quality between the two but a learn towards the right in both. Were you using a different tool for the simplified one?

Love seeing those Lego legs in perspective. Nailed it!

These are fantastic! Delicacy in the areas that aren't the focus and strong lines on the edges you want to pop. Love em.

It looks like you've got a good handle on the ideas behind the way the lines are used to imply value changes. I'd love to see that applied to a drawing where you take some time in the lay in stage. There's a recent Proko video on proportions that might be worth checking out. The details are the most fun parts but building them up on a shaky foundation means you don't always come away with something you want to share with everyone. Stan gives several different types of measuring techniques that you can use at different times. 📹https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J7RQvKnWf4&t=236s Keep at it and share your next results! I'd love to see it.

Not sure if you were wanting to share an image with this post. I'd love to see it!

You've got some good shapes in here and you made great choices on simplifying the shadow shapes on the left side. Don't be afraid to push that same shape design into the overall shapes in your drawings. Push and pull a little to emphasize things a little more than what you see. I'm not sure about the value of the cast shadow and the reflected light you have in there. There's definitely a little reflected light but with a limited value study, that doesn't seem like enough to insert it there. It steals the feeling of an edge between the pear's darkest shadow and the cast shadow on the tabletop. I look forward to seeing your next posted drawings!

This is a pretty solid start and good for using just the one tool. That's a hard challenge when you're first learning! You have good shape simplification in here, especially on the bottom left shadow shape that a lot of people might choose to make more detailed when the point of this is the simplification. Good job on making intentional block in choices when you were starting the drawing. That helps this to feel like a confident drawing. No other notes from me here!

Sorry to hear you've had things get in the way of drawing. For what it's worth, you've got the box outline in all of these well in hand. All the boxes feel well placed spatially. The only critique I have is that the lines inside the boxes don't follow the perspective of the box, going a little crooked in some places where they should cut across the shape in the same way as the edges of the box. Keep at it and fit in this kind of practice wherever you can. Using shorter and faster things like this can help you to build up your understanding for drawing in the limited time it sounds like you have. Good luck and thanks for sharing!