Here are a few level 1 attempts. I’m definitely going to be practising this one a few more times. Shading is one of the skills that I have the least experience with. I am pretty happy with how these turned out, however I can really see where I need improvement. I’m having the most trouble with shading the half tones. With my first one, the larger ball, I spent at lot of time fiddling around with the area around the terminator and ended up making it way too dark and thick. I watched the Dorian Iten video and, if I am understanding things correctly the band corresponding to the 45% half tone should be no more than 1/9th of the hemisphere that is directly illuminated. That’s a pretty useful guideline to keep in mind. The other thing I am struggling with is controlling the shading in the lighter half tones. I’m having trouble with getting the gradient when shading the light tones. Maybe I should be using a wider range of pencils.

I hope these make sense. I coloured the sides I considered axis aligned, and then labelled the rest. Edges were all in the same combinations of axes, then I only labeled them once.

Here are mine. I found that some of these were much easier to come up with multiple layouts that others. And some layouts took a lot more thinking to get right. There were a couple with the 9 squares that took a few tries to get the way I imagined them.

Lots of drawing for this one. I had to do it over a couple of sessions. I started focusing more on my cross contours in the later drawings.

I did this one twice. First freehand then using a 30-60-90 triangle to measure and get more accurate lines. I wasn’t sure how to draw curved shapes like the handle when seen as the cross section, so I just did the largest outer shape.

I seem to have trouble figuring out hands and feet. They seem like the should be simple, but they always end up looking blocky or flat. In general I enjoyed doing these. I think the master studies turned out pretty well, but when I was uploading the images, all I could see were the mistakes. As for the ones from imagination, they started a little stiff, but I think after doing a few I started to get a little more dynamic.

Here is my first attempt. I find this quite fun, so I’ll probably keep doing these as something to practice. I’m still struggling to figure out how much top plane to show, especially when objects recede into the distance.

This was kinda fun, but I must admit to having more fun with the melted pancake landscapes.

I found this quite fun, although I clearly need some practice. Making the shapes is not too difficult, although figuring out how much of the top to show, and being consistent is something I think I need to pay attention to. Also making the page look interesting is more challenging. I guess that gets into the composition side of things.

Here is my try at this. I had to refer to the video a bunch to remember the correct proportions. I also choose to use the full 8 heads high. I think I’ll have spend some time memorizing this proportions.