Did some ginger blob warm ups then made a couple of characters. Tried giving them some dynamic poses. Any advice on my cross contour placement would be great! Thanks!

Visited this a couple times over something like 2 weeks. Definitely an adaptation! I think I struggle a bit with where to put them and how to deal with corners / junctions between masses.

I struggle really hard with ellipses. Like my arm doesn't want to do the strokes. Anyone has tips for those? Just more practice? (underhand grip on an inclined surface)

Definitely one that stretched my skills the most. Figuring out where to start the lines makes me slow down quite a bit. Found that looking at the nose and chin helps quite a bit at figuring out what kind of box to use. Kind of went overboard with the shading. For a bit was going for one of the first simplification exercises, but then I just had fun with it.

I checked it once in Clip Studio, made corrections, and then decided to render some of it :) needed a break from assignments Reference from Unsplash

Hey Proko-sians! I just finished watching this and well, something dropped in for me as I was making notes on the PDF he speaks to at the end. Most of us are newish to drawing. Many others are not. If you are familiar with figure drawing at all, you've probably heard of Loomis and Reilly and other's I'm sure. They all present systems. I'm a student at drawingFORCE as well and Mike as the Forceful Method. What I'm trying to say is, there are so many ways artists think of "gesture" and "flow" and "connection" and they all present their way of thinking. If you are just starting out, this way of thinking might feel a bit magical, and seeing the natural rhythms of things feels elusive. Remember, Stan has built up years of knowhow, intuition through practice and teaching. It isn't always easy to convey this deep knowing, so the rationalizations for why he "indicates" things the way he does are the important parts to focus on here. Study (reproduce) the examples and indications he provides in the video/PDF and speak aloud the rationalizations. Internalize. At the end of the day, it's easy to say but hard to do: Slow down. Look. Think. Understand. Practice the mark. Make the mark. Accept the mark. Move on. That's quick-sketch. And of course, try to have fun! It will make it that much easier. I heard it takes about 200 repetitions of a thing to master it. But make it fun and it will only take 30 or so. Good luck out there!

My drawing looks like crap and I don't care anymore. I think I need a break...

Ended up doing the import into ClipStudio twice and once more into Procreate. Way overkill but happy with the end result nonetheless. Noticed I didn't pay as much attention to the relative sizes in terms of horizontal vs vertical as much as I should. Here's the last lay in after 2 rounds of fixes.

Dave Malan Master Study. Fun stuff :)

Looking back after watching the demos I think I might have gone too timid on the hierarchy of importance. That said I kind of like how my attempt at making the face and horn more important turned out. Really struggled with the contrast part for the light and shadow exercise. I think my brain refused to compute what Stan was saying and simply went intuitively. Looking at it now I probably should have gotten a bit thicker on the rhino's inner front left leg.