Masterful. Commentary and drawing skill. Excited for this course (once I get to this level!).

Did a few more studies. Focusing on only using straight lines makes this process much easier than the "burden" of having to worry about hitting the curves just right. Excited to keep practicing this, then move on to molding these into even more accurate portraits with detailed features.

Super helpful to walk through this with you, Stan. Especially as you discussed the order of features when drawing (it helps to have a map!). I clearly need more practice here, but it's great to have a framework to put in the reps practicing this.

This was a tough one for me! Many revisions here, but learned a ton. Next time, I'll draw it larger to make the details a bit easier to focus on.

247th Day of Proko and counting. I thought it would be interesting to try to do the 100 head challenge in about two hours. Here it is--four 25 one minute sketch sessions. I took a few minutes break between each 25. It wasn't easy to maintain that intense focus for that long, but at least I can say I did it once. I think I'm going to be dreaming about portrait drawing tonight.

Pose 18. Started with a 10 min study of the pose, got up a few times to strike the pose myself which really helped when drawing it from memory. The memory manikin got a little wonky, but the exaggeration made it feel like he saw something shiny on the ground that caught his attention.

A few highlights from the Rockwell exhibit. Seeing the charcoal comps next to the finished pieces was amazing. Loved seeing the globs of impasto used on The Critic's palette and some of the various changes he made to illustrations in the process, such as seeing the original jawline under the chin of the third child in "No Swimming" before he decided to add some weight to the silhouette.

Did this after Dave Malan—a huge inspiration of mine for a long while. I learned a lot about how he uses his lines to indicate volume, planes, and mass. I've watched videos of him do this and it's so instinctual and effortless. After I mimicked his lines, I took a step back, squinted, and it was an a ha moment for me—how they all play together to subtly show volume. It's also amazing just how confident his lines are. You can see my lack thereof, especially in the hair. Anyways, amazing exercise and I will try his work again. My goal is to get to this level one day 🙂

I really tried to pay attention to the details here. It's very challenging emulating the sheer breadth of line quality/type with graphite, but I did my best. I'd love to try charcoal one day. I watched this video then skipped ahead to watch Jeff Watts' line weight video, then did this. I think that was a good order because his talk inspired me to pay even closer attention to details as best I could. I'll definitely be doing this skull again, and as Stan said, I'll try to take the lessons learned into future drawings.

Studied the art of Claire Wendling. Any advice would be much appreciated.