I struggled a lot with this one, this is actually my third attempt at this over the past few days and one that I'm finally satisfied with. Probably the assignment I enjoyed the least out of all of em so far. Though having said that I did enjoy it a bit more after I changed my technique. I mostly, after putting in a few first measurements like the vertical fifths, eyeballed it. I found it much more enjoyable (and effective) to eyeball a bunch of bits in and then just correct them after the fact. I did a little bit of checking my work with overlaying it in Photoshop so there is a bit of erasing and correcting. Bit messy in the cravat(?) too. Anyway, good result in the end I feel!

I looked at a lot of amaizng artists. In the end I found the time for those studies of drawings by Franciso Vasquez Eliza Ivanova Edward Hopper This is so much fun. I could just stop here for my drawing and just do studies forever. I am so happy and relaxed while doing it. But I am curious what more drawing has to offer.

I am a total beginner, so I really struggled to get in this mindset. But there were moments, where I started to get more the feeling of line I needed to draw (not even the visualising stuff). For me this was a huge step. I guess a lot of people have this breakthrough in Kindergarten, but well... It feels nice. I still feel bad for what I did to the poor little penguins feet.

It was very tough at first. Damn, my hand didn't do what I wanted it to do. But it got a bit better from the second snail on. I will focus on that. And working out before drawing was really bad for my lines (haven't even finished that one). (@angelicaa): Ghost it in, visualize, execute one nice stroke with good speed.

That was fun and I can see some improvent, which is nice. Maybe I bit off more than I can chew with the bananas. At times I was struggling to see what I had in mind drawing some lines. It was a bit to complex for me. But some of it came together while shading. I think I will try this exercise again in a month or so. Along the way I found a little more confidence in finding shapes and especially the 3rd and 4th darkest value looked more similar to each other in the beginning.