I like this little guy! I made him a little fizzy in the face so it looks more like fur.

quick study of one of glen keane's ariel drawings!

2024/4/6. Good morning everybody. Here's my latest long drawing: "Girls Just Wanna Have Devilish Fun". Pencils (Hi-Uni, Faber Castell Pure Graphite 2900, Staedtler Mars Lumograph Black) on Kent Paper A3 size. Thanks for any comment or critique. Have a good day.

Managed to draw the level 1 hand suprisingly quick. Left in original lines of changed thumb which wasnt quite right.

I started with the simple toy like cars, going on to the monster truck (which I found challenging) and onto the tanks. I learned that I know little of tanks :) Also I doodled a couple of cars before I saw this project online. I guess it's a common thing to think of when you're working on boxes and cilinders! For me, drawing the boxes for the tires first worked better than to start with the body of the vehicle. Still I thought it was tricky, especially to find the right size of a wheel on the 'backside' of the vehicle. Also, many lines everywhere. It was hard to keep my lines clean, I certainly felt the urge to scribble. Quite a challenge this one!

Oh, g-dddd. Please, someone help! I know that there is 2-pt perspective in this very rough drawing. This is an alt-2 for our kitchen renovation. Showing an existing wall on the right, with extra cabinetry in the event we cannot take the wall down (X-ray.) I drew and redrew the corners of the cabinet several times because I got very confused by the perspective. .

Hi guys, one point perspective was easy :) Could someone explain me pleas why books I drew doesn't look like it's laying flat on each other? I thought as long as vertical axis is perpendicular to horizon it should look like it's flat on one another but apparently it's not enough. And how to figure out correct second vanishing point for the desk in my drawing after all?

Excuse me Mr. Teacher .. didn't you tell us to make it in 3 point perspective? Also ... why do I feel like the proportions of your boxes are a bit ... wonky? ^^

MY one and only attempt (very busy with work this week). Based the SUV around the boxiest vehicle I know. The Honda Element. The spare tie on the back and the moon sink are part of an optional package :) I am REALLY having trouble constructing a cube or even a rectangle with a single squared faced in 3D. I tried to look at cubes in real life and even did some print out of a transparent 3D cube out of blender and tried to practice, but it didn't seem to help. Given that making a square for the wheel to sit in KIND OF essential for this project, advise would be appreciated.

Having a lot of trouble seeing the proper tilt for the ellipse as well as extruding it into a 3d cylinder. And it shows, even with this highly simplified drawing.

Level 1 - old race car ‘inspired by’ Maserati 250F. Level 2 - a made up tracked vehicle that puts out fires instead of starting them (echoing @Johannes Schiehsl re tanks!) inspired by Antarctic tracked vehicle.

Hey guys. Here are 3 drawings. An F1 car (Go McLaren), a bulldozer, and a Sherman Tank. I had a hard time with the tank getting the wheels/ ellipses to feel right. I don’t know, the angulation of the axis felt weird and I had to re-sketch and erase a hundred times. I also started with 6 wheels but somehow ended up with 8 because the proportions felt better. Lots of fun little details though, probably went overboard. Fun assignment!

Hi everyone, Couldn't figure out how to place tv perfectly in the middle of tv unit..

Hello Stephen, Great job. I just finished watching the entire series of real-time videos and I got a lot out of it. You gave lots of good ideas about technique and things to think about while creating a portrait like this. But... at the very last moment of the final video, there's a bit of a surprise. In the image below, the left side shows how your drawing appears throughout the real-time videos. Then, on the right side, we see the final drawing in the "Thanks For Watching" screen and it is much darker with more contrast. Can you please tell me which one, left or right, best represents the final image? I actually like both, but I'm about to try this portrait myself and I want to mimic your approach as much as I can. But now I'm not sure what my end-state is supposed to look like. Thanks Rich

2D profiles are easy but the hard part is visualizing what happens to those 2D shapes in 3D. Can you show us that?

From page 70 of Drawing the head and hands by Andrew Loomis? Can you spot the mistakes?

After hearing Stan, I'm not sure this is the right course for me because I had hoped this course would provide exercises to help improve my observational accuracy. That doesn't seem to be Stan's objective and I suspect that AI is the motivating factor for his choice of topics.

Bravo! We've been justifiably chastised. Maybe if we follow Stan's sage advice, we may actually see our drawing skills improve. What a novel idea!

One of my own hiking boots. Perspective of the toe seems a bit wonky, but to be fair, I have pretty small feet.

Stan, you've clearly explained how we can use only 5 values (3 in the lights and 2 in the shadows) to indicate the form of a single object but, when we are faced with multiple objects that have different local values, how do we use those same 5 values to describe their forms if we want to show their local value differences?