1st attempt at the snail ( 〃．．) i did go over some of my lines with a darker pencil after because it wasn't showing up enough in the photo... i'm pretty happy with the shell, i think the snail itself is too long (on the left and maybe in the middle section as well). however i had fun drawing it!

It has been 3 or so years since I have drawn anything. I want to start taking it serious so I hope these class help. I was hoping I could upload the 9MB clip studio paint time lapse .mp4 file so I could get for potential feedback if during my process I was doing anything wrong but unfortunately this platform doesn't support it. I look forward to posting more.

I drew a lot when I was a kid. But not much since I was in high school. I am now 47 years old and wanted to start drawing again. This is my first time doing a real, structured drawing course. Though I took all the art classes I could in school, I never learned the fundamentals. So a lot of this is new to me. The first gorilla picture example in the video is closer to what I'm used to, drawing the surface of things with no real structure. And I never got the hang of shadows. So I look forward to building those skills. Anyway, excited to have started, and I love seeing everyone's work. I hope you guys all stick with it.

My first try at a pear... Going to try again tomorrow and 1) make edges sharper and 2) do better shading (for the light values, I used a different pencil, which turned out to be too light).