sharks by Watts and the flower by Davinci. Comments are much appreciated.

My first mildly successful master study. Bridgman.

Hello everybody! My name is Igor, I am 36 years old. I'm learning to draw and taking this wonderful course. This is my first job, which I share here. On my own, I want to say a big thank you Stan for such a cool course. Drawing inspires me a lot now. I wish everyone to enjoy drawing as much as possible.

I could use some help on lay in, and maybe we'll get to this when we get to shapes, proportions, etc, but I try to do the rough laying, but once I start in with darker, more final lines I nearly immediately see how off my initial lay in is. Here is a study of Jim Lee's batman. I took a picture of the hand when I got to it to show how far off I was. Zoom in on the left hand of the in progress picture and you can see how far I'm off. I was similarly off on the head. Is this just a practice thing?

For this study, I've mainly avoided choosing artwork that is too human-centric because I think it's easy to get captured and lost in the small details of the human face. I have no idea who I feel is the main inspiration, so I opted for a scattershot approach. Anyway, here's the list of artists I referenced for Line Master Studies: Claire Wendling: her lines are so clean and neat, and the line weight also shows some light and shadow. Clyde Caldwell: I didn't pick a good sketch, but the horns and arm are at least fun to draw. David Malan: clean and geometric, I enjoyed just drawing out the curves; in the end things were somewhat aligned, so I put in the facial features as well for fun. Eliza Ivanova: her lines are really intricate and I had to do a second pass just to tease apart some of the contrasts. Gerald Brom: there is a cleanness to his lines that I like. I smudged in the facial features for fun, but it's very interesting that I feel the less we pay attention to faces as faces, the more accurate we can express them on paper. His cover art for the Forgotten Realms novel series War of the Spider Queen was so striking I remembered it for all these years. Glen Keane: I had the most trouble with this one; the lines are incredible, it's like he pulls a big line and a shape comes out. Glenn Rane: I like the bombastic blockiness he gives to fantasy characters, like the big and beefy Orcs he draws, or the athletic Elves. Jeff Watts: the drawings are cool, but intimidatingly so! Luis Royo: very fine control over small curves seems to be his thing. I have some pictures of Oleg Yurkov, Todd Lockwood and Wei Wang as well, but I think I'll call it here. I've been trying to feel the lines, and to be honest most of it was enjoyable, even if drawing tablet pressure settings seem to be a bit fiddly and I'm still adapting to that.

Here’s my attempt on the project! It was honestly really fun! I learned quite a bit from the linework of some of my favorite artists! Tried to get a variety of art parents to study line weight work for this session… let’s see how it turned out! References from left to right: White Spy by Antonio Prohias (Spy vs Spy) Akkeri by ZestyLemonns Amemura Short by Hiroyuki Takei (Nekogahara)

During my search for an artist I was really inspired by Eliza Ivanova's art and style. I really enjoyed seeing how she captured volume and articulated shape with her lines, each being so purposeful and different in execution. This is the kind of art that inspires me and I would love to embody some of the style and flare she has. Of course, that comes with practice and more master studies! Below is my attempt at one of Eliza's pieces that I really enjoyed doing. It was very difficult for me as I tried not only to mirror the execution (line value, weight, etc), but also understand Eliza's original intention and what story she was telling. Some obvious errors I noticed was my proportions in the face especially (not to mention I made the sketch too big I went off the page....). My sketch face is angled more upward and Eliza's is more parallel to the ground, almost angled downward a little bit. Some other facial features on mine is larger etc, but overall I felt I did a good job. Looking forward to studying more!

I did two drawings after David Malan. These were fun, and I like how the first one came out, but I'm less confident about the second (as noted by the notes). I'd really like to get better at hatching and cross hatching, but maybe my proportions need some work first? Not sure.

One more ShouXin cat picture - this time trying to take my time a bit more and using a darker pencil (5B). It's challenging getting the correct stroke on this. You pretty much have one shot and done. I nearly ruined this picture with an accidental angle tilt that left a dark mark on the bottom of the cat. I might do a few more of these to practice the motions.

Original was from Shouxin. I found it hard to find a master drawing to focus on line work - there is so much out there and much of it depends on form/ perspective/etc... so i was browsing images for line art and just stumbled on these cute kittens with very soft lines. I don't tend to use soft lines or the edge of my pencil or an over hand grip so I felt this would be a good choice to practice all of that. Paper was some scratch paper that my daughter was coloring on.

Difficult. I've drawn many references from masters but didn't realize I was just trying to transcribe the markings. I looked at the light outlines as what he was likely laying in for guiding lines, so that's what the first picture is, showing the process i think he followed. I had to keep telling my self to not copy the lines but instead focus on the rhythm of the lines, the shape, value, etc. I'm interested to watch the demo on this now. It's mentally tiring doing this, more so than when I was blindly copying the marks.

1. Study for the Virgin and Child by Michelangelo. 2. Turtle by Craig Thompson (from 'Habibi'). The original is inked, so this was interesting and tricky. I discovered how the artist uses cross-hatching as a type of shading, which I suspect is very common for traditional engraving work as well.

Did another study of a hand by Ingres - the shading technique he uses elude me - I don't know how get that texture of shading since it doesn't look like hatches or broad strokes

I studied an owl archer character concept from Paul Sullivan for Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time Genuinely surprised by myself and really proud of the result :o

Second study after Alphonse Mucha

study after Ingres - love the economy of line and form the master is able to do with a hard pencil

Study after Alphonse Mucha (La danse)

Decided to do a drawing from Jeff Smith. I like the art style he has.

super fun assignment, and found a lot of inspiration in both Eliza Ivanova and Jeff Watts. Decided to not drive myself crazy by trying to do the big tigers and instead opted for the more manageable one in the top right of his sketch. Ivanovas lines are so sharp and flowey, was a real exercise to even try to approach their line quality

Thank you for Introducing me to Claire Wendling!! her drawings are beautiful. This was definitely a challenge, I felt that I was using everything this course has taught me so far!! This has taught me a lot, I will definitely be adding master studies to my weekly schedule. Criticisms are welcome.