I find it difficult to draw using the entire page, i don't know it just feels like the there's a bigger chance of proportions to go wrong. and drawing small always ends up being a cluttered mess. During the VR-girl sketch i noticed that once an area starts to get too "busy" i start stressing. While at the same time I noticed that when drawing the penguin due to simplicity of the sketch I felt more pressured when doing the lines because there were just a lot less lines in comparison. I'd still appreciate critique and opinions on areas that might stand out to someone, but i also thought it was interesting how I react(emotionally) to the lines and the self critiques or self imposed pressure during sketching (problem solving) since I think both those thing tend to be what makes me quit and start over and quit and start over again.

I find that small areas where there are more details I keep "stalling" i can't process it. the penguins feet were quite a challenge cus of that, and also because there's such a small area to work on that you can only make so many errors before the whole area is colored. For the hand..oh the hand.. simplifying is hard. the first one i messed the proportions so much , so i tried a second take and even though it's a sketch i tried taking some pencil measurements. it did come of a lot better, still errors but definitely better. I find that (maybe it's just me) but I didn't felt the need for tapered lines , I definitely incorporated them during the "boxing" process , but not much after that. or maybe i did and im just not calling it that?

So I'm posting before and after seeing the demo. One of the things i struggled the most was with the show laces. It feels like there's so much information in there that my brain just sort of freezes and doesn't know how to process/simplify. There are some consistent on both tasks, obvious mistakes with proportion that I tried to ignore/not focus on because it isnt the focus of the project. and a few "chicken lines" because i wouldn't know how to gauge pressure or because i tried to retrace a line and I was just very bad at it, And lastly I think i have issues with the dynamic-ness of the objects. they just look so unmoving. Practice practice I suppose. PS before the demo the shoe laces were so daunting that I didn't even finished the drawing. but if you squint real hard you'll see the boot.

on my first attempt I definitely felt like using the stump, and even though I was still happy with it I had already set up the goal of doing one after the demo and it definitely felt like I was noticing new things. specially transition in values and the difficulty of focusing on shape language rather than line language. Any critique is welcome :)