I've only gotten through the first photo so far, but I'll at least post the variants for that one. The thumbnails are dated, so you can see the progression. First one is so far off, it doesn't really even count. ;) Initially, all I could think to do was to color in the overall lay-in using different values for different parts, but by the end I was trying to think more of value shapes that could highlight / accent the different parts. I'm probably not explaining this well, but in any case I think this exercise is helping me to see things differently.

I haven't been drawing for a while, but trying to get back into it now. I'll do more notans (they are pretty cool!) but posting my attempt at the boats. The 3 shades looked cleaner on the paper, but in the photo I can see all the areas that were not properly filled in!

The demo for this project was just posted. Although I didn't get very far on this (level2, torso boxes from photos), I wanted to post what I had before watching the demo. I found this exercise very hard! Re-did these first 4 many times, and as you can see even on these "final" ones there are a ton of erasures. Will see how close these actually are, once I watch the demo.

Kept it simple - just tried to add gesture to a basic box building. Twisting was difficult - first attempt was just plain distorted. Second was closer to an actual twist. Harder than it looked!

Guess I'll post all of it here. Ginger progress (first two were pretty bad), a contoured seal, and 3 ginger people. The first two ginger people were from imagination, and it shows since they are quite broken - the only way they are possible is if they are gumbies! I tried the 3rd from a photo reference, and altho it doesn't much look like ginger, at least the joints aren't broken. :)

Having a lot of trouble seeing the proper tilt for the ellipse as well as extruding it into a 3d cylinder. And it shows, even with this highly simplified drawing.

I know we are way past these now, but I'm still going back to work on rhythms because, well, I really like them. :) Have a long ways to go, but I do see improvement.

I only got to the first 4 so far, but better that than none. I haven't watched the demo yet. Harder than I'd expected, as you can tell from all the erasing. :) If I can do some more tomorrow before the deadline, I'll add them to this posting.

2-minutes each. Need to stop going over the same line repeatedly. Have to admit, the timer is making me a bit nervous.

Need to be more careful with my verticals and horizontals. Didn't realize they were off until I saw the photo.