These are a great attempt! I think you're spot on with your self critique - your line quality feels a little stiff, especially in the penguin. Watching the critiques I think will be quite helpful since Stan gets into the looseness and what the true goals of the project are. Another video I would recommend is the one on searching lines. Keep it up!

Hi janoot. Those look pretty good. Your lines are neat and you did good job capturing proportions. About pictures I would guess that it was either not enough light in the room where you were taking them, or you draw with very little pressure, so that the lines are not very visible. I would try to make more confident strokes with pressing the pencil more against the paper. Try maybe before each drawing session to do some warmups and fill couple of pages with just random lines elipses and curves and test how hard you can go, so that it'll be easier when you draw. To avoid smudging I always place empty piece of paper on the area I already shaded, so that my hand is resting on that instead of the drawing. Good job, and keep posting!

Great job ! I love the shoes ! I think you did not simplify enough the skeleton indeed. I love the smiling face of the camel 😂. The body looks a bit round to me but great job on the legs ! Feel free to give your opinion on my submission as well 😃

These are really, really good, Pasha. The first portrait is great, too, but I was captivated by the second one. I especially love how you've applied values on the mouth and chin. I just keep staring at his lips. Also good choice filling in the left ear completely with the darkest dark, and not add any detail to it. I think proportions here work well and are just very nicely done. I mean you can see there are differences in comparison to the reference, but I guess how pleased you are with the proportions depends on how accurately you actually wanted to capture this face like seen in the photo. For this assignment the focus isn't in perfectly accurate proportions, after all. I'd say it's been a worthy struggle with all the measuring :). There are mostly straight lines, clear shapes, clean values (good pencil work) - that's it, keep at it! You've maybe gotten a little tired filling in the values by the time you've gotten to the jacket, as pencil work there doesn't look as careful, but that's okay - and I can relate :D Fantastic work, thank you for sharing!