I don’t know why I gravitated to goats for this :) I could have worked on these forever, in a good way - but thankfully I have to go on a trip for 10 days & I wanted to get these post-able before then. Seeing them side-by-side like this I can see some adjustments :) I included some, but not all, of Picasso’s search lines. Maybe I should have left in more of my own … I haven’t watched the demo or critique videos yet. Maybe I’ll try again once I have when I get back. This was fun!

He mentioned it might be too tough, but I wanted to give it a shot anyway. Posting this feels a bit uncomfortable since it's pretty bad, but trying it did give me some insight. I'm glad I went through with the exercise, even though it was kind of disheartening. I also need to get more comfortable sharing things, instead of holding back because I think it's not good enough, so here you go. It was hard partly because I can’t rotate or change the perspective at will. I also kept forgetting to focus on line quality, so I think I need to learn to be more relaxed with my lines. I have this urge to measure everything. The ability of instructors to assess angles, distances, and lengths is so natural to them - it’s all pretty intuitive at their level but from here if I don’t measure everything then it all turns out wonky.

Here is are my drawings from the Learning to Sketch from Observation exercise. I almost never draw flat - I almost always use an easel for various reasons. I can also be, I think, too uptight & I'm trying to loosen up. Not sure if it's working yet LOL

I dd the boots first, snail second. I think maybe I made the boots too complicated.

2 pictures - 1st (rounder) was done before watching the demo & the 2nd one was done after ...