Here are my attempts for this assignment. Did some warm ups of boxes and cylinders than the animals. I wasn’t happy with the eagle one but decided to show it anyway. @Rachel Dawn Owens I have a question, It felt more natural for me to construct forms using boxes and cylinder's compared to beans and gesture. is that normal part of the learning process like a sort of stepping stone? or could this indicate that I naturally lean more toward construction based thinking vs gesture first approaches? just curious if this is something others experience too, or if it might be a sign of my drawing instincts leaning a certain way? Thanks so much in advance! You’re the best. 😊

Decided to do it in pen so I can commit to my lines since I can’t erase pen. I notice I was a bit faster in my 2 minute attempt cause I remembered the forms from the four minute attempt which makes them look almost similar. the 30 secs down to the 5 seconds was tough and had to forget about shapes and just try to get a “glimpse” of the truck on paper. overall had fun! :D

Probably one of the hardest exercises I’ve done. It’s hard to get them nice like Stan does it especially doing these while learning the overhand for about a week now. so I apologize if my lines are shaky it’s cause I’m learning the overhand grip. any feedback is welcome please 🙏🏻

Great job! I love this art piece. I am excited to see Nightcrawler back in Avengers Doomsday :D

After graduating college, I got this course as a gift :) gesture is harder than I thought and I decided to do the overhand grip which makes it harder lol. I stuck with it for a week and here are my recent results so far. couple things I learned this week: 1. I made the mistake of doing 30 second gesture as warm ups. I decided to do 3 minutes of 2 - 3 poses as warm ups before doing the 2 minutes and than the 30 seconds. Worked way better. 2. using the overhand grip felt really weird this week. It felt like I was learning how to write lol. But I stuck through and I’m starting to get an idea of how to use it. Also I tried sharpening it with a blade and idk if I’m doing it right lol. 3. for anyone that’s feeling discouraged or upset, I understand cause I feel those feelings as well but I remind myself that I’m learning. You will improve, just practice, feel the flow, move your whole arm, watch Stan videos again and watch how he moves his whole arm. Take breaks! lastly, feedback is always welcome! I use proko free gesture pack for some of these gestures btw.

Ginger root people!

Man, I just started out but holy hell these are difficult....regular practice everyday I guess

ummm.. yeah i am going to do it one more time and with better paper, i have to rush out fast because paper stopped holding darker graphite and started shining, this is canson mixed media, medium grain... i will try rag paper or something else. One more thing about this how to have thought process of not killing yourself while doing this, i am not joking this requires patience with calmness, i was frustated as hell.