This was a lot of fun and hoping I got the idea of it!!! Please tell me if I might have gotten it wrong. Any suggestions are welcome. I never understood the vanishing point up till now!!! Pretty cool!

An just as Stan said gesture, I decided, I should go back a step.... lol

Having a intensely tough time with this. Will do more after watching the demo.

Hi Stan, The course is brilliant and it helps. I often feel I am simply not pouring enough time into it! I am honestly struggling to feel like I am making progress with it all, the dynamic shapes part was difficult and now this hah. Lets keep going. Things are tough when you're a slow learning and have to rewatch things constantly. Just writing this for those out there that might seem discouraged. Just keep going! Even if you feel you're not really getting it or making progress! Keep going. <3 (Neuro spicy ftw)

I only started to understand the concept of pushing a shape in a direction after watching the demo, instead of trying to repeat what I am seeing. Focusing on the gesture of the image and where the weight and direction of the piece should move to.

This took me about 2 hours and a lot of focus to find plum lines and proportions correctly and use the relational techniques to get the picture drawn. I found this rather intensive and difficult to follow. I was so focused on getting the hang of the plum lines vertically and horizontally and creating relational proportions withing the image. It was a fun and challenging lesson this one! I will evaluate my work by watching the critique later on.

Lol I've been watching this lesson for 4th\5th time now just to make sure and feel I understand everything he is talking about. It feel it's all so friggin important.

I headed off after this video and found my set of animals to try out. Chicken - I could easily identify the shapes and manipulate them to create different characters that felt different. Hippo - I enjoyed the shapes around this, squaring off around the jaw or snout, or rounding off the eyes. But I struggled to get to sharper more serious or thin form. Buffalo - I had good fun with this and could produce various shaped. I specially enjoyed creating the longer shape from the buffalo. Raccoon and Moose. This is where I started to struggle a lot, The raccoon feeling stuck in this diamond shape and triangles. I felt I couldn't add well enough to it without loosing the look of the animal. Wolver - Here I could create somewhat of a squared off stronger look and then the more angular and rounded faces. Even though still quite tough to approach. The BEAR - By far my favourite animal and left to last. I loved recreating and forming these images, felt like a real gran-pappy bear and I wanted loose looking skin and big bushy eyebrows. All in all, I constantly tried to focus on creation various shapes in each different image. Still some ways to go, fingers crossed it will sink in more once I watch the demo and self evaluate my drawings here.

I did my line master study on a piece drawn by Josh Tallman in the Book of Adria: A Diablo Bestiary. This is Mephisto, one of the three prime evils of the burning hells. I chose to focus on the head. It took me a while to get the hang of it and start to see how the artist was using their lines, line weight and line values. The more time I took on it I saw more of the depth being created by the artist. It was a long process of shaping the image and then finding the form of it. My main focus of it was to create depth around the horns and face. I also wanted to display some light from the top of the horns and display shadow on the lower ends of the shapes. Overall the image was very messy but I felt I got to a place where I started understanding lines in a more intuitive way. Thank you Stan!

I completed mine digitally, First did the trace then focused on the important shapes, then the direction of light.