I enjoy the figure stuff a lot, I've never done it before, so it's been hard, but again, very fun. I don't know if I'm doing this correctly, rhythm is a very abstract concept to me, hard to conceptualize. The best way I think I've been able to think about rhythm is that it's "lines of forms that continue into other forms". I don't know if this is right, but whenever I watch someone do rhythm drawing, it seems to end up being fairly accurate from my assessment. I think I've progressively gotten better as I've managed to think about it this way, these are the current drawings I've done, only 4 so far, and they take some time. I haven't timed myself, but I'd guess maybe 45 minutes. Now I would like to ask if the blue one (My most recent attempt) is somewhat close to how you'd look at rhythm in a figure or drawing, it's the only one I've stopped to add the "rhythm lines" and "action line" to.

I'm a little confused on how movement and such works in tandem with gesture, if that's how to phrase it, I kinda get the peaks and how they cause a stretch and pinch, but for some reason I'm not quite sure how to centralize that with relation to the action lines, lol. I wasn't aiming for accuracy, but I did still struggle with the whole gesture concept :D I did all of these today, trying not to take more than 5-10 minutes each. I'd love some feedback. - Thanks

I have a question, hopefully someone can help me here. I'm taking the course and using a digital medium, I can directly draw a measurement, copy/paste that measurement and move it around to measure a reference. Is that encouraged, or should we try to use the stylus (laying the stylus on the pen display to measure), and eyeballing? I'm not entirely sure if we're meant to do it as Stan did it in the original project video or not.

Oh, man. This was very hard for me. How do you actually go about measuring? I'm digital, and so I could measure the subject directly, but I didn't do that, because I'm not too sure if you're meant to xD. I also drew the bottom of the nose on the line for the tip of it, haha. I tried to use my stylus as a measuring tool, but I'm having trouble deciding where to begin and finding units to use. I've got a lot of work to do.

Not sure if I simplified enough or if I'm doing this entirely correctly, but I took a bit more care with the hippo and chicken, but with the buffalo I tried to go faster and see if I could see simple shapes quickly. I chose to go faster on the buffalo because first impressions made me think it was the most complex.

These were my master studies over the last week, I wanted a more rendered image from Claire Wendling, but unfortunately I didn't notice until after I did the study that it was an A.I. replicating her style. So for my other studies I got them from ArtStation or the website of the artists. I really never noticed how line weight could so dramatically change the way the artwork feel and reads, super cool!

I think I did it right, I'm not sure exactly how to determine the importance of an object, I guess that's generally compositional? But in this case I thought to myself, "It'll be the whole rhino, for now" lol. As for light and shadow, I think I did okay, any feedback would be really appreciated!

I don't think I did the VR girl as the assignment wanted. I thought I was sketching and being loose, but after I watched the demo on her, I decided to try again on the Penguin. Likewise, I definitely enjoyed the penguin more. P.S. I forgot to do the cross-contour lines on another layer.

This was very difficult once I started the boots, lol. I kept having problems with proportion and had to erase and try to continue from there, I decided to do just the left boot for now. I kind of want to come back to it later to gauge improvement. Also, I found myself having to remind myself that I was to choose lines carefully and deliberately. Which, I then proceeded to forget to do. xD Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

I tried another Item(s) and the portrait, I used a selection tool and a marker for the values, I was interested in trying something new! Although I realized with the portrait that there were a lot more small value changes than I thought, so it was a bit hard for me. I tried, and could not break the face down into planes lol, I had to look up how to do it. I struggled so much with that xD I think I'll move on to the "Lines" segment of the course and revisit this a little later, I think I'll be going back to using a pencil too, haha.