Here’s my first batch of seals. I think the top left of the first picture and bottom of the second picture show gesture pretty well. The others look more stiff to me.

Eyeballing was more difficult than measuring everything, especially when the sizes of the reference and the paper were very different. The reference was displayed on my 13-inch laptop computer, and I used 14 x 17 paper. Although I tried to focus on the proportions rather than the actual size and length when I eyeballed, my drawing tended to be pulled toward smaller sizes, which made me very confused, and I kept correcting the sizes. I need to do more eyeballing practice!

Looking at the overlay, I made the head way too narrow. One interesting thing is I originally measured the eyes, but they looked really big to me, so I made them smaller. But looking at the overlay, I think I should have trusted my initial measurements!

I’d say this turned out better than my pirate guy at least. Any feedback much appreciated.

pretty tough, any feedback appreciated

Couple more practice. tried to really critique myself and did them each a couple times.

More practicing simplifying. It was difficult to simplify the monkey. I ended up just tracing the outlines for some complex shapes. I am not sure if it was a right way of simplifying.

Tried a few more. Still feel like I’m struggling with this.

My shoulder feels like I just practiced my tennis serve for 2 hours haha

This was tougher than it sounded. Would appreciate any feedback. Will definitely try a few more.