I feel like I was doing this wrong! I wasn’t sure if I was capturing the correct values. I also struggled with how many details to include and what to simplify away. Sorolla (2) was my latest attempt, and I thought it was a bit better. I’m not sure though! Some questions I had along the way: How much time should I spend on these? How do I approach dark colors within light and light colors within shadow when it isn’t totally clear? How much detail should go into the shape design?

It was challenging to get a range of values with the 5 pencils I used! I ended up needing to go back and darken many after the first pass.

I didn’t do a ton of clean up because I’d like to see how I improve throughout this section! There is quite a bit of noise, and I think I was pushing my 2B a bit far for the darkest value! Good information to learn though!

I took my time with this one. Still I can spend so much more time studying and trying out all the different games. Most of these assignments are drawn with the model in front of me, only on the first two pages did I experiment with drawing without looking and coming up with a different angle (I didn't feel well the last days but I was determined to put in some work). I did invent an extra game where I would sit down after work and try and remember what I'd studied the day before (without looking at anything that day) and try and draw that from memory (red book example, definitely drawn faster!). PS at first the objects scared me off because they did not spark any interest to me because it looked so boring and grey. But that disappeared when I started playing that little game called 'what shapes can I find' :) I also want to add: I feel like a lot we've been studying comes together in this project and I can't imagine what these pages would've looked like drawn by the me from before the basics course!

Continuing to practice from this project. From reference, then from memory diff angle, and then from memory diff angle with altered proportions. This is so tough, but I think it’s making me improve? 😂 I struggled with perspective on the first memory exercise where the knee is straight toward the viewer. I also flipped the arm and leg positions to being on the wrong sides for the angle in both memory exercises!

I’ve been working away at this! These are challenging but valuable exercises. I’ve been doing a couple hours a day, and I feel like I have barely made a dent in this project!! The figures from memory are very difficult for me, so I’m going to spend a lot more time on that.

Post critique attempt: I spent too much time on details and not enough on houses. I need to work on size and scale of elements in perspective. I wanted the base of the tree to seem extremely close and the tops of the trees to look really far away, but I don’t think I captured that. Did I need to make the roots larger? I know the ladder looks weird. I rushed through that and it shows.

These are my level 1 & 2 attempts. I found the exercises from imagination to be very difficult because I couldn’t think of interesting poses. I ended up lazily working through it because I didn’t feel inspired. Level 2 was difficult for obvious reasons, but I enjoyed it more because the shapes were more interesting with a reference. The final page I did is the one in regular pencil. I think they’re my neatest and strongest because I took my time to problem solve before scribbling. After the critique comes out, I’ll revisit this again. I’m finally caught up in the course!!

I tried baba yaga’s hut again with more gesture. I think this is better than the first, but I also think I combined too many distortions.

First attempt— I need to push the gesture more and figure out how to join other forms more accurately (the building on the back and side don’t seem right to me).