Some were more successful than others, had a lot of fun and was definitely something I had never thought about before while drawing. I feel like the most success was seen when most thoughtfully considering the dynamic shape design and “guiding the eye” of the viewer. Would love to hear what you think.. how successful was my attempt at the dynamic shape design? this assignment was a lot of fun, so I’m looking forward to the example videos and critiques to more deeply integrate this into my drawing practice!

Starting to feel like progress! They aren’t perfect, but I’m happy to see both improvement and areas to improve. Would love to hear some feedback! I had a tough time focusing on shape design when distracted by inaccurate perspective. Broadening my focus area to see the drawing as a whole instead of just the portion of a line has been an on going deliberate adjustment as well… with varying degrees of success. I feel like I started to get a glimpse of how it should go when drawing the rooster.

For my master study, I tried to replicate explicitly the perspective and line quality used by Peter Han while drawing “hard-edge” items like this Morgan 3 Wheeler car. I somewhat fell down a rabbit hole trying to research and study my way to a beautiful drawing, but ultimately pencil had to meet paper, and I’ve done my best… time to move on and improve. I’ll come back to this when I have a little more “mileage” as Peter Han says. I feel like I’ve learned quite a bit even if the final product falls well short of Peter’s original work. Mostly what I’ve discovered is that what I had attributed to issues getting the proportion of a subject right was actually getting the perspective of a drawing consistent. I still didn’t fully solve that issue (as I’m sure you can tell), but ultimately I have found a fundamental skill that needs improvement. After the drawing basics, I think the perspective course with Marshall is next up for me! I am quite tempted to use a ruler to lay in my initial layout lines. I avoided this temptation as I think it’s important for me to be able to draw straight lines without one. Anyone else struggle with getting consistent perspective? I particularly struggle if the vanishing point is outside the paper area.

Really enjoyed this assignment. The light and shadow feels like a more interesting line weight method to my eye - any critique or feedback on both drawings would be much appreciated!

found this exercise very informative. Up until now I had attributed most of my drawing errors to not “seeing” clearly. Commanding the instrument needs practice as well!

Thought this project was very informative for what I need to work on. Not super excited by the end result, but happy to be on the journey!

By the end, felt like those boots were worn out by kicking my tail from start to finish. Haha felt like I learned a lot about how much my line quality needs some work. Any critique, advise, or pointers would be greatly appreciates!

Had a lot of fun with this one! line quality really improves when I discovered that going slower around an ellipse equates to a more repeatable pattern. The speed at which Stan draws these is much faster than I can go and understandably so. That’s good to know as I practice and attack other projects! and other helpful critiques would be great to hear! Thanks :)

After watching the demo and critique videos, I attempted “pear 2”. i feel like I learned a lot, even if the pear doesn’t show marked improvement haha

Hey everyone! first time through a drawing class after - any feedback would be great!