This was fun and I think it finally clicked for me with the last few drawings. I'm not sure I really captured the idea of the lesson with the koala drawings but I think they turned out very nice nonetheless. I forgot to save the references for the snake and the last bird. It was supposed to be a hawk but it ended up looking more like a seagull to me

This was a fun exercise. I'll definitely come back to it again. I found it surprisingly hard to find good drawings to work from. I don't have ready access to art books at the moment so finding good quality drawings suitable for the ex3ercise was hard. Anyway, so far I've studied a few of Dave Malan's and Glen Keane's works. Takeaways: I suspect Dave Malan uses a mechanical pencil for a lot of the lighter hatching. The lines are all very uniform in thickness and value. In fact that seems to be the case for most of his line work that isn't hair. He uses darker, wider lines combined with hatching to show shadows and heavy lines on their own to show contrast I wish I had the confidence of Glen Keane. Even his squiggles have more purpose to them than my deliberate work. He build up his heavier lines from multiple passes and he uses heavier lines one the more mobile parts. Outlines, key facial features and so on. I'd like to try to draw either an animal or something mechanical so please post below if you know an artist whose work would fit.

Before and after watching the demo. It's an improvement but I'm still not sure I quite get it. I tried to show contrast with line value and shadow with line width but I don't thin I quite succeeded. I'll have to come back to it again at some point

Before and after watching the demo Using a softer pencil and treating the lines more like shapes made a world of difference

I wasn't sure how to tackle this assignment to be honest. I definitely need to watch the demo !

I'm honestly not sure if I'm doing this correctly. I'm off to watch the demos

I drew a grumpy squid. I honestly think this is a much better exercise for learning sketching than doing it from existing drawings. At least it is for me.

First stab at the level one assignment. I like the arm a lot and the penguin is okay. I should definitely have drawn the girl bigger.

I decided to go back and give the Level 2 assignment a shot as well. I'm not super happy with it but at least my phone ne camera recognizes it as a face :)

Last one before I watch the demo. My proportions are getting better but they're still not quite there yet. Getting the four big curves of the hat and brim placed correctly from the start took a bit of work up it was well worth it.