Hello Stan! Drew these without watching the demo yet. The pears went relatively easy (I've had some pears/apples/eggs/teapot/... training done before) but surprisingly, the portrait was harder than I expected value wise. I tried to stay within the range of 5 values but might have been a bit overboard sometimes haha (counted 6 actually) All in all I think it was a great thing lvl 2 was included for the challenge because this gave me a goal, with a good insight on what I already know and what I still need to train. Looking forward to the rest of the course! Thank you! Ps: I took my time for these but not sure how much time should have been spend on each drawing? Could other students maybe share their average time per drawing ? It would be helpful because I felt like I was a bit on the slow side

This assignment was quite fun to do! It definitely made me better at freehanding boxes of different sizes in 3D space.

I chose to only go with the 9 squares one because it seemed to be the most interesting to me in terms of creative possibilites. Freehanded all of them, the first ones with pencil sketches first and the last ones directly in ink, which forced me to be very aware of each stroke I put on the paper while I was thinking of the shapes in my head. This was definitely a great brain exercice, felt really like solving puzzles to me. Very enjoyable!

Here are mine. I found that some of these were much easier to come up with multiple layouts that others. And some layouts took a lot more thinking to get right. There were a couple with the 9 squares that took a few tries to get the way I imagined them.

That was an awesome bonus video!! Thank you @Stan Prokopenko and @Marshall Vandruff for providing all these informations and advices in one place, I appreciate the work and thought you put into this! I took lots of notes and added all those Draftsmen videos and books you mentionned at the top of my backlog x)

Here are both my pencil sharpeners back from the form study in otho form. I notice now after scanning I got confused at some point: when I was looking at the mechanical one. I could see the interior sides of the top handles and I used a bit of one point perspective for these but now I understand I should have just drawn them as "flat" squares instead. I'm planning to do a second sheet with the other items I did in the form study so I may correct it at the same time.

Hello Bryce! I'm a long time fan of your work so I'm very excited to follow these new lessons of yours! :) I've been also wondering something for a while, not sure if I can ask it here but it does concern the process for sure and particularly the sketch phase : what canvas size and dpi do you use for your digital work usually? I remember you mentionning to use A3 size (sorry I don't remember in inches but I remember that was the size in paper format) for the Persona 5 fanart you did a while ago but that was traditional art. I'm asking this because in digital, I tend to work too small and/or maybe with not enough dpi (I often choose 300dpi) and then I usually have to enlarge it at some point or end up with my artwork being too small^^;

I found this gold dust this morning! I've just had a brief look but feel like it's related to the orthos assignment so will try and study it... Wanted to share in case any one else is into this kind of thing and hasn't found it yet! https://www.traditionalanimation.com/mickey-mouse-model-sheets/

If you came to me 10 years ago and told me my wish list would be full of books, id laugh at you. Ive been interested in The Einstein Factor for a while now.

As usual, great critique video with spot on explanations and a lot to learn from everyone's exercices. It's funny because when I was in art high school at the end of the '90s, I often found critiques not very helpful because teachers back then were more focused on conceptual art than anything else and not really into the technical aspect of drawing. Thus I had to realize by myself my own flaws and improve as I could. I know I am still very much on my way to be a better artist but now for the first time in a long time, I finally feel like improving again. So yeah, about Hans's arguement, some things in art can definitely be learnt by trail and error, but some things cannot and having such a great course neatly explained is just priceless. Super grateful to be able to follow this course!