Did my first two from Glen Keane. Happier with Pocahontas than Ariel, who ended up vertically stretched and a bit off in the face. The bigger problem is, while I can carefully construct something that's reasonably close, doing it so slowly and bit by bit makes me feel like I'm missing out on what actually drew me to Keane in the first place, even if I am managing to pick up some things about line weight organization and general observation and whatnot. Trying to emulate his confidence just goes so wrong that it feels pointless, especially working in analog at this small size, going back and forth with the eraser ... for now I'll probably end up picking someone else when I do more studies. Could also go for simply tracing his work instead to take some of the work off my plate, I suppose, trying only to get better lines down without hesitation until I'm more comfortable with it. Forgetting about resemblance would probably make the results look too demoralizing even for exercises.

While looking for masters that lines really standout for me, I landed on Peter Han. His drawings are the ones that I can stare for hours This was already pretty overwhelming so I took the advice from Stan's video to focus on parts of the drawings rather than the whole thing. In retrospective - I wasn't ready for this at all. I have never gone through a study so it was hard to try to focus on trying to imitate how some of the lines "feel" rather than just copying the drawing. There are a A LOT of taper lines in this drawing, plus a complex line hierarchy. I couldn't come close to it at all but it was fun and a good experience. This took probably around 2-3 hours - yes I am slow :( I will probably re visit this and do more studies from this drawing but I want to watch the demo so I have a reference for how to approach a study.

I tried to put what I've learned so far in these practice drawings. Trying to be aware of the impact that a simple line can make in how the drawing 'feels' This is probably the main takeaway so far in this class. Before, I was "careless" in how I put the lines together. It is hard to explain but is something along the lines of seeing the lines individually and making them work together rather than seeing the final product as a whole and focusing on the big picture. Also trying to take into account line hierarchy in order to highlight specific components. Granted - this feel doesn't translate to any real improvement in art but it does feel good to begin building an intuition of some sort.

This was hard to do in paper with graphite pencils. For the hierarchy of importance, I felt like it was hard to make the lines any thinner than they were already in the page. The shadow and light version was easier to make the lines look and feel different.

I'm definitely more comfortable with straight lines after the 250 box challenge from draw a box In contrast - fluid lines are painfully hard for me at the moment. My mind and muscle seems to be super rigid.

I've noticed my lines end off slanting down. Any advice how to fix that?

The idea of being loose with lines is too foreign to me at the moment My initial attempts before the demo are failing to do so, it kinda looks good but that's because I was worry about proportions, positioning, etc. I didn't "find" the shapes by sketching them. It is super hard to switch my mind into that mode. I am also worry that I am excusing my poor lines/drawings by saying "I am being loose and sketching", "I am not worry about the final product", etc I don't know - the idea hasn't click on my mind yet

I’m happy with how they turned out but I think that it would've been better to be more loose with the lines and to just focus on the bigger picture rather than the smaller details. In the future when sketching I will make sure to do that.

I like these projects a lot! The idea of having a project is so stressful but fun! Here are my results, hope you enjoy them!

I am looking forward to the demo because I can't change the way my mind is approaching these drawings. It feels as I am still just trying to simplified the form in CIS lines but the intention of the project seems to be more focus on thinking freely and not really worrying about the outcome but rather the line confidence. Line confidence is pretty low because I keep thinking about making sure the proportion is good, what shape will be next to what, is this going to fit in the page, etc. I can't focus 100% on just getting a good line and reminding me I can change the line form later even if I didn't nail it on the first try.