Great job on the critiques Stan!!! I learned a lot from it and am looking forward to redoing my pear with more understanding. Thanks!!!

I am in love with this course right from the start. I've always wanted to understand the differences in pencils and paper. For this alone, this is a great course for me. This is my first attempt at the pear. I had fun doing it, while discovering the different feel of the pencils. Thanks Stan for being the guy to put this together and I super enjoy all the fun you bring to it.

Hello everybody, I'm super excited to be able to join this course as it goes up! Having grown up during the "cringe culture" era of the internet, my relationship with the act of creating is very screwed up. So I'm really hoping allowing myself to get into this course with the mindset that I'm sort of starting over from the beginning will help that relationship bloom into something more healthy and productive. I'm pretty much exclusively a digital artist, though I have experience with some traditional mediums so I may switch up what I use to draw every once in a while!

Tried playing around with an HB to start with. Sharpened with a standard sharpener first (like I’ve done in past), then tried out sharpening with a blade and exposing more graphite (2nd two pages). I felt like I had more control transitioning from thin to fat lines, and the graphite was sturdier than I expected. I forgot to get sandpaper though, so I found it a little uneven. But it felt good to draw with!

Hey Stan, I've been a long time Proko subscriber but haven't done anything with it. I really want to start working hard to refine my drawing skills, but wonder where where to start. I've purchased the Anatomy, Portrait and Figure drawing courses, but don't know which order I should start to study from. I hope to hear from you.