Hello guys I decided to do my own projects for lines too. Something that I found out is that the more days I work on a project the more reckless I get with the finishes of my drawing. A great example would be the crock Day one I did the outline and the left I day two the right eye and today I finished it pretty roughly tough. Is this typical for artist pr is this something personal o got to work on?

Did the intermediate assignments too, using photos of egrets. First egret about to get its prey, did hierarchy of importance. Second flying egret did shadow lines using the original photo.

I hope I understood the assignment correctly. I will watch the demo now and hopefully that will help. Feedback is always welcome :)

I found that organizing line weight by light and shadows was pretty tough. I think watching the demo will likely help me better understand how to approach this in the future.

Drawing over the contour while thinking about what is important and what is not and trying to represent light and shadow with lines turns out to be a lot harder then I thought. Great exercise by the way!

Hierarchy was with iPad, so used a bit of color to help. Shadow was with graphite pencils -- interesting doing shadow with just edges and not actually shadowing. Liked how that looked.

The first two are digital using the digital drawing provided whilst the third drawing i copied myself from the photo. Comments/feedback appreciated.

Hierarchy of importance - Darker lines for the outlines & and some major protrusions to highlight the 3D form Shadows and light - Darker lines for darker shadows, thicker for shadows that spread more

Got lost a bit in the process. For the second drawing I'd be more than happy to hear how it can be improved. I had a hard time defining the line weight. Maybe if I take it further it's easier to assess all aspects and plan the drawing more

My take at the level 2s. For these, I sketched from life and then added line weight on top of it. I attempted hierarchy with the still life objects, shadow and light with the house, and foreground/background depth with the park! I think I need some practice with the light and shadow one, especially when being done from life and not from photo reference.

This assignment is great for forcing me to recognise and deal with the fact that I have a death grip on my pencil and far too much pressure applied by default. I gave up on sketching many years ago when my thin mechanical pencil poked holes in sketches, not thinking that hand control mattered, nor how cerebral drawing really is. Using the soft pencil setting in Krita (+ a basic pen tablet) made me relax my hand to even allow tapered lines to form. Being lighter on the pen will probably reduce nib wear as well. Without tapered, controlled lines, tracing the rhino is nigh impossible. I think I was hard tracing everything on the first task, then I just started winging it a bit on the 2nd/3rd time tracing it, coupled with a healthy amount of squinting to see the values. It feels like Stan is teaching us to become human graphics processors. As for the level 2 draw from observation, the picture my friend showed me made so little sense that I don't know what I'm looking at either, so I'm sharing my confusion with anyone who sees it. Some of you classmates are so brilliant and inspiring, but if I want to improve I gotta stick my neck out and try level 2.

I'm actually really happy with how this one came out. I'm DEFINITELY not a level 2 monstertruck, but I didn't have a printer so I had to draw from observation first, then build up the line weight. If anyone has any feedback shoot it right through!

Uploading my attempts at the level 1 drawings first, level 2s to come later. Line weight is fun to play around with and explore! I definitely want to do a second attempt with the rhinos and give more attention to line weight in my life drawing/sketching.

I think the one on the left is better. I hope some of my line tapering can be picked up in these photos.

My attempt on the project. Ironically keeping the paper still for the tracing was the hardest part along with getting good lighting to see the figure. Had to prop my phone’s flashlight for it! It went better for the light and shadow section though

I might do the "hierarchy" approach differently next time. I tried to use heavier lines to draw attention to the head, but I'm not sure I achieved the desired effect.

Here are my goes at it. I liked this one, it was fun - though I wonder how you should prioritize the prominent features in light when using the shadows and light direction method. For example, I tired to emphasize the nostrils and eye particularly, which I think "looks better" even if it isn't "technically correct" from a lighting perspective if that makes sense.

Here's my final render for this exercise, didn't have a printer at home so ended up sketching the rhino from scratch, more observational drawing training \o/