This was another line study I did, I saw this sketch from Oleg Yurkov and I really liked the lines when I dug into it. I didn’t do the background cause that felt like a lot but the entire piece is interesting. Line hierarchy - making the lines thicker or making them darker to separate certain forms while making the inner lines lighter and thinner, generally speaking Light&shadow - the light seems to be coming from the upper left Diminution - the background is fainter, blurrier and lighter. Really like this piece and I think this is a good artwork to do a master study of.

I really liked the way Yusuke Murata used line thickness and spacing in his rendering on the so decided to do a study of it. As always I need to keep working on steady straight lines, but I was happy with how it came out.

Not gonna lie, this was very difficult for me as a beginner. The lines were extra loose and flowy while mines were stiff as I wanted to not only execute the right type of line but sometimes the proportions were off. Definitely can do better, though I appreciate the challenge and gained a respect for Frank Frazetta work. (Also not sure if cross hatching counts as lines so I went half in half out with lighter half tones to suggest there is meant to be a shadow there)

1. Light and shadow 2. Hierarchy of importance light and shadow was definitely a bit longer then the Hierarchy of importance one since I really did have to vary the line and had to squint really hard for the wrinkles. Hope it reads well :)

Pretty self explanatory, nice warm ups, I really enjoyed the page skating it felt so freeing and I also liked the straight taper and the connect the dots exercise, it’s the swift movement.

Mixed success here I guess. I can see some insecure scratchy lines, and some nicer strokes. Did a few outside the prescribed exercises to get some more practice in. I think my biggest problem (ignoring proportion stuff) here is line weight perhaps? My line weight is very inconsistent, due to lack of control rather than strange decisions being made. I see there's a line weight exercise coming up, so looking forward to that one!

This might be a bit above me, but I already started so I finished. Looking back I definitely should have exaggerated the drawing, but I think I was way too focused on getting it to look like a raven. (I am a beginner but I wanted to try doing something more advanced just to see how it ends up.) edit: clarification the second image with that full page raven is my rendition done from imagination, all other drawings were done using a reference image.

Finally finished the exercise, for the last one I tried to really loosen my grip since it was really fatigued from the hand sketch, I may be missing a few details and I’m pretty sure the proportions for the hand is wrong, but I’m going to leave it for now cause otherwise I’d be tweaking that thing forever.

I’m going to do all of the level one stuff, but I did this wolf drawing that I did through observation that I wanted to share. In the second photo I realized the head was too small due to negative space. The stuff on the side was just me practicing tapered lines.

Genuinely am proud, laces made were difficult but they really ‘tied’ things together.