First time I've ever done timed sketches! Fun but really stressful, so I only managed to do 7. Don't have enough practice yet to do anything with 1 minute...

WEEK 1: 15 1-minute sketches and 11 5-minute ones. I haven't done timed gesture drawing a lot and I feel like I rushed some poses too much, being worried about the timer. Still, I am very glad to have gotten some practice in. Excited for the rest of the challenge.

WEEK 1: not my best but this has helped me immensely to get back with gesture drawing again because i lost the flow of it a few months ago :D (first two are the 10 - 1min the other the 10 - 5min)

Week 1, 10x 1 min and 10 x 5 min. I've done this two times this week. I've been practicing figure drawing with the Proko timer tool for a while now. Looking at the submissions I'm not here to win, but I'm surely down for the challenge. I feel like I usually get the general gestures and proportions down. But I can't draw clean lines like some of you! The movement and (well balanced) exaggeration some of you show in your work is simply amazing and inspiring, so thanks to everyone for sharing. If anyone reads this and has advice to stop the scribble habit I'm stuck with, help a girl out :) As you can see my lines get quite dark, especially with the 5 min drawings. I'm using the red pencil to stop myself from going in with my eraser too much.

Some from memory and angle change games. A lot easier if I first draw it from reference and then go about rotating it. It makes sense to build a visual library of EVERYTHING! Stuff is a lot easier to memorise after I have drawn it from reference once. Now I just need to draw everything at least once :D

Thanks for another great demo! I didn’t realize how much I needed this advice on matching curves. Super helpful.

I took my time with this one. Still I can spend so much more time studying and trying out all the different games. Most of these assignments are drawn with the model in front of me, only on the first two pages did I experiment with drawing without looking and coming up with a different angle (I didn't feel well the last days but I was determined to put in some work). I did invent an extra game where I would sit down after work and try and remember what I'd studied the day before (without looking at anything that day) and try and draw that from memory (red book example, definitely drawn faster!). PS at first the objects scared me off because they did not spark any interest to me because it looked so boring and grey. But that disappeared when I started playing that little game called 'what shapes can I find' :) I also want to add: I feel like a lot we've been studying comes together in this project and I can't imagine what these pages would've looked like drawn by the me from before the basics course!

My visual memory games with the objects. I loved this exercice that I felt as a memory gymnastics. With the first ones I had troubles memorizing the forms and to keep the good proportions in perspective at the the same time. So when I came to more complex objects I started drawing a diagram with the proportions I had memorized. Then that was easier to me to put it in perspective afterwards

I’ve been working away at this! These are challenging but valuable exercises. I’ve been doing a couple hours a day, and I feel like I have barely made a dent in this project!! The figures from memory are very difficult for me, so I’m going to spend a lot more time on that.

I finished the last batch of photos for my level 2 project. I found it challenging, more so than the first round. A couple times I discovered right after I finished a torso, that I was looking at it all wrong and I went in for another, more advanced version. I feel like I'm learning so much, I love it! Can't wait for the critique video (that probably will make me realise I still missed 10 things :) ). I added my first round again as well (1-8), for comparison.