Although my goal is to paint with oil paints from portraits to faces to figures and especially landscapes,(hence why I'm doing both courses from drawabox*free ver.* and this one is a bit draining but I can endure it surprisingly.) I tried to draw this figures from imagination and of course it sucks buuut I had fun with it. I'm one of those people who'd need assurance of one's own drawing skills before they paint with full leisure I know it's really bad as they usually say to paint everyday& experiment w colors but I still want to draw freehand cool sketches from imagination or draw interesting landscapes also from imagination in a sketchbook. Being self taught in painting especially oil painting of all mediums I could've picked is quite intimidating and terrifying as a girl who reads a lot about art history..but when I started taking watercolor it's the medium where I understood color far more deeper and it made me excited than I thought so I'll stick with watercolors for a very long time and do little oil paint session if I can and come back doing oil painting full time even if they appear to have the opposite way of preparation, pigments, etc. That is all, sorry for the long message hoping nobody read this=3=

This assignment takes a long time, I practiced a lot and still don't get it right... here are a few of the results. Some of them drawn along with Stan, some partly of my own with corrections. (laid out on about 60/80cm space) I also took a little break from it and learned etching from a friend, which was fun. Will come back to mannequinization again later. Hopefully with better results.

finished this in two days which could've been done in one day but I was busy reading a book by yoshino 'how do you live?' and I was a crying mess because I was somewhat depressed but this book along with rilke's gave me hope to pursue this elongated path. okay enough of that. anyway, I drew this accordingly so forgive me for attaching the pictures inordinately because it took me quite awhile to look for the other papers and was too lazy to put them in arrangement hehe the first few beginning was a complete hell and there was some poses that I found not vexing and comfortable like standing tilting poses or a pose that is mostly stretching is, I find, delightful and fun to draw but with the poses that are bending filled with muscles and FORESHORETENING is, I find, a pain in a huge ass seriously it's hard. they did make a bit sense but not enough to draw it all by my own so I'm probably gonna go back to each exercises and draw them as little doodles and commit it to memory. I also have a problem with my charcoal pencil and it's the way I sharp it, it's not perfect but it's also not good it looks like some random baby chew it thinking it was Stik-O. I drew these figures on a printed paper I hope that is uh not a bad thing...hopefully.. ^_^

I'm so tired lol..... have to wake up early everyday just to finish this course asap. I'm seriously having a hard time controlling the pencil, I think it's something to do with the surface(like a table) is the problem, I used to draw beans/robo beans on top of my table but my back started to get sore so I leaned back and put my sketchbook on top of my arching legs and it's where I can control the pencil far way better.

My first attempt of drawing this mannequin, drew this before I got this blessing course and struggled how small my sketchbook were. I see how some people use some kind of uh board like a surface to draw(???) for figure drawings and some very smooth paper really curious about the board and papers they were using to draw, any recommendations(preferably cheap one)would save my life. thank you!

Here are my beans for these poses. I drew them without watching Stan's version, and then red-lined them based on what I judged to be the major differences between mine and Stan's.  It seems the placement of my centerline (as opposed to the direction) and overall shape design are my main issues, but further critique is welcomed.