Here are my attempts at the first three objects for Level 1. I actually feel that I did better on this than I expected! I have aphantasia so I've always felt uncomfortable drawing from memory. This exercise was challenging and forced me to think about drawing in a completely different way. For the first object, I missed a lot of the minor details, and I thought it ended up looking like an elephant 😂 So I added some eyes and ears. I'm amazed by some of the entries here and the level of detail that some people seem able to remember. I can remember the very basic shape, but extra details are very hard. I find describing those details in words while observing the object helps.

Not my best work but im not even sure where i went wrong. The follow-alongs i did while watching the video were decent but then doing it from imagination was.... bad.

Some ginger root people from imagination. I think I'm getting better at coming up with ideas without using any references. I still have a ways to go with learning proportions and anatomy but I'm pretty happy with how these little guys turned out!

This was the most difficult project for me so far. I tried drawing the Christine car, I think it turned out OK in the end! The back wheel is partially covered so it kind of looks off. I tried drawing the headlights in perspective, too.

I understand the placement of the minor and major axes but I don't understand how they affect how you actually draw the ellipse. I get the ellipse needs to touch the four points, but how do the axes indicate the angle of the curve of each part of the ellipse? Can anyone explain?

Do we just eye ball the major axis? Or is there a way to be able to tell where it is supposed to be like how we discover the minor axis?

In my first sketch, I mostly measured with my pencil and using relationships between areas of the face, which is the technique I've always used and I think it works well for me. But I still made errors, so I need to spend some more time incorporating other methods. In my first sketch I could immediately tell that the face was too 'squished' (always a problem for me, I wonder if it's because I have my sketchbook flat on the desk, which can alter how the proportions look from my perspective). When I checked the proportions in Krita I could also see the forehead was too short, eyes and eyebrows too low, and the nose too small, among other inaccuracies. I attempted to fix the proportions and I'm happier with how the updated sketch turned out.

Got a bit carried away, drawing Pandas c:

I was getting so frustrated with this exercise that I wanted to give up, but I'm glad I didn't! I actually like how the character turned out in the end. I wanted something challenging so I went with a kangaroo/wallaby, I found their odd proportions so difficult to capture. I started off with a couple of sketches copying from photos then a few from imagination, and I thought about how big the wallaby's feet are compared to its body, so I decided to make him into a sad clown type character. Overall this was a helpful exercise because I struggle hugely with drawing from imagination. Creating this clown wallaby instantly took me back to when I was a kid and I used to create animal characters from scratch all the time.

My boots before and after watching the demo. The coloured pencil version is the after. I planned properly this time and gave myself enough space to draw the boots without squishing them! Drawing the 'envelope' helped a lot.