Attempt at learning from David Malan’s drawing “Natalie”. It quickly became clear that I could not maintain any semblance of the expression he captured in the hair by trying to meticulously copy every pencil stroke. So I tried to keep the “spirit” of his approach -even if much less skillfully.

Here are my level one attempts. I’ll go back and try these again after watching Stan’’s demo - I know I failed at the loose sketching approach - but I tried. For the VR girl I included the first gesture sketch that I did - I defined the drawing’s envelop, found the midpoints of the figure (vertical and horizontal, but then didn’t do any more measuring - I just tried to find the right shapes to fit on the gesture.

For those of us struggling with the boot laces, maybe this internet dad joke will provide some levity: I bought some boots from a drug dealer. I don’t know what he laced them with, but I was trippin all day.

The shot of the camel was more of a complex structure so I found myself firstly roughing in the big shapes and gesture lines for the legs etc. The head itself, I decided to try and draw a box to help me figure out how to break the shape down, noticing the planes of the head that I could see, a bit of the front plane, the side plane and the under plane. This turned out to be really helpful in helping me to place the features.