Had to do the front twice. Measurements were a bit off. I used my pencil to line things up and measure accordingly. The back view I think is in great alignment, just the paper was crooked when I drew it lol. Optical illusion!!

I found this assignment the most useful so far because it’s allowing me to really study an object in its entirety and will hopefully lead me away from copying even when I don’t think I’m copying.

Will this course get me started on drawing figures in various gestures and perspectives from what I imagine in my head or will we be extrapolating gestures from given photos only?

Master the basics. Got it!

What an amazing skill to have to capture the perspective of all creatures big and small! From a tiny snail staring into the eyes of a fish with the underwater world surrounding. To the elaborate background of a city block that has so much in it the viewer will spend minutes scanning all the intricate details. Trippy psychedelic realism to bubbly cartoons! PROBLEMS I'D LIKE TO SOLVE: - Drawing simple scenes but creating dynamism by having the viewer looking at absurd angles. I always loved Bill Watterson's skill to do this in Calvin and Hobbes. For example, looking from above a Calvin drops a waterballoon on Suzie's head. -Creating worlds and backgrounds in such detail that the viewer will take time to explore the happenings. Such as with Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein. Again Bill Patterson creating vast space worlds. - Drawing dynamic characters in several perspectives including dynamic postures such as with Kim Jung Gi. I'm very excited to see everyone's improvements of perspective over the next year!

My submission for the organising line weight lesson would appreciate any advice on what I could practice/do better thanks.

This was after Bernie Wrightson who is an absolute master and I am very humbled through this process. I was thinking I was going to pick up drawing where I left off 20 years ago! Haha! This was the best I could do. I worked really hard on this. At first I made so many searching lines that were dark and just didn't show any dynamics in the drawing. Then I took Stan's approach and instead of making it perfect first past I used lighter lines to start and went over them and also used the gum eraser to lighten things up. I don't know if I truly learned to do lines like Bernie. I tried to do a cross hatching of Frankenstein and it was a disaster. I am no where near that level yet. I did this with pencil and I think he used ink with a brush.

After watching this I am realizing I have not explored the pencil enough in terms of the grips and different lines it can make by adjusting accordingly.

Post Demo

Tried again post demo. I only re-did the light and shadow one b/c I felt like it was the more difficult one to achieve. I feel like I don't quite understand when the line needs to be thicker vs. darker, but I think I'm getting there