my attempts left to right. The first I did on my own the second and third were with the demo.

i decided to attempt and draw a bear from imagination. I started with getting familiar with the body and face. I’ve only been drawing for about a week and although level 1, decided to shoot my shot anyways. I drew Nimbo the gunner bear I recommend other level ones to do the imagination project as well. Although Stan recommends to not throw yourself in the deep end so quickly, take a detour from the course and see where your creativity takes you!

I did two characters! My first one is a traveling echidna, I wanted to make a special harness for him to carry things since his quills aren't backpack friendly. His staff looked like a basketball so naturally I had to draw him balling. I saw other students doing insects and I wanted to try my hand at that! I made a mechanized bee, it was pretty tough but I'm glad I did it!

This was fun! Strangely the robot girl was the toughest of the three for me.

ballpoint, fineliner, and a lot of pain.

The paper got a bit weird when picking up graphite on the right side and I feel like I smudged a lot of my pencil. I fear I have made it too sloppy.

i did all the references and part of one of my own before running out of room on my page (the hippo)

I did two drawings. The first (left) I did on my own before the video. The second (right) I did with the video.

I tried on some of my fruit irl first because I wanted to see the light for myself as opposed to a picture. It was tough at first because the apple was several colors and reflected the table. After trying with the banana though I understood it more and tried the apple again. I tried the pear pic on my fourth attempt and then followed along with Stan’s video for the fifth.