There is definitely a better way to do this. This took me much longer and when looking back at Stan’s example I put too much detail where it wasn’t necessary. Even with all that time I definitely believe some proportional errors are still present especially the width. Simplifying is difficult for me it seems. I don’t quite understand why. Anyways, appreciate those who took their time to read to the end. 😊

Mushrooms with emotions :D

There is something about shapes I think I’m clearly misunderstanding. I feel my shapes are either too complex or just not shapes at all. Either that or the animal looks deformed.

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.