This was great. Decided to finish the banana monkey in the left under. Thnx for the inspiration and good lesson Stan!

My version in blue… (obviously🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣)

I wanted to do a line weight master study of Loish or Gretlusky, because I see them as my 'art parents', but it was way to intimidating for me. I didn't know where to begin and start panicking, so I thought, let's just go with Stan and also do the Jeff Watts drawing. I used a super sharpened HB pencil so I quite struggled to get the right lines, especially the softer ones, but it made me really think about how to create them and I think that's the point. I know that the proportions aren't right. Can someone tell me if I did right or what I did wrong. Thanks in advance!

My attempts!

My pre demo and post demo attempts. I think I took simplification a little too literally in the first attempt lol. Glad to see some quick improvement though. Let me know where I can improve.

I'm excited by how much I learned just doing this first assignment twice! The second drawing was after watching the demo and critique videos. I feel like I improved the shape design, but still struggled with understanding and expressing the shapes of reflected light in the shadows. Pencil control and grouping values into light/shadow families improved a bit more on the second drawing as well. Any feedback is welcome.

Continued practice with some other photos. The tip on viewing things as being in an “envelope” helped a lot.

First attempt :0 I think I took contour word too directly *sigh*

I filled in three pages total! Loved the warmup. Kind of addictive to create a good and different mushroom each time. :)

Hi! My first attemt. I found it very hard to just use straight lines so it was a bit a search. I would like to get some critique. Thnx in advance.