I've learned so much from Michael over the past year! here are my week 1 drawings

It took awhile for me to work though things and overall I found the animals with fur a lot more difficult to simplify as I had a harder time of deciding how to break it down into more concrete shapes. I experiments some early on with doing both super geometric and organic shapes to get a feel for it. Now that I'm posting it I realized I should have played around with showing the animals from different angles but I guess I will handle that next time lol. Thanks for taking a look!

This was my first time trying gesture drawing ever and it was way more fun than I anticipated. Here are my Week 1 1 minute and 5 minute sketches.

Week 2 12 5 minute poses. Week 1 poses: https://www.proko.com/s/R1gs

Changing a frame into a star. The objects are, in order, possible - impossible - possible - impossible - possible.

Gosh this was definitely the most challenging assignment for me so far. I did a couple studies of Bernie Wrightson but I'm only uploading the one I thought was more successful. I really admire how much he's able to convey with line weight and had a lot of fun trying to copy it for the cloudy sky. I also did a study of Glen Keane which was fun though I still struggle to get the confident loose energy of his work. I think this assignment was both humbling and inspiring in equal measure.

I saw this picture of the squirrel with the messy hair a while back and once I got to this assignment I knew exactly what I was going to try and draw: A squirrel getting the shock of his life from an electric cord! ;)

These assignments were really fun. Line weight is honestly something I had never given any thought to before so seeing how drastically it can change the same base drawing was a revelation for me. Please excuse the janky perspective on the last drawing but I tried my best to emphasize hierarchy of importance on the lines for that sketch.

This really had me stretching my muscles and was a lot of fun even if everything didn't turn out right. My big goal on this was to see what I could do to make the vampire bat cuter through simplification while still keeping it batty.

I'm really excited to start this course as perspective is something I really struggle with at the moment. The cartoon in the introduction pretty much exactly summed up where I am in drawing skills which is that I'm decent at copying from a reference but when it comes to creating and manipulating things I don't know how to do it. I started the drawing basics course about a month ago and that is already helping me improve a lot and I know I'll get a lot from this course as well which I'm hoping to do concurrently. 1. For my perspective masters I was helped a lot by reading the other comments in the course here and since I'm drawn to kind of fantasy-like environments with intricate architecture I've chosen works by Charles Michel Ange Challe (1-2), Charle-Louis Clerisseau (3-4) , and Giovanni Battista Piranesi (5-6) for my favorite perspective drawings (I guess I'd better learn how to make a good archway). 2. My big picture goals are being able to draw objects and characters from angles/perspectives other than my reference photos and creating realistic environments that feel like a character/object is believably inside of and feels grounded in, even if the environment itself is quite fantastical. I can't wait for October and the official start of class!