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.

I really enjoyed doing the boots, I did it some time ago and only did the snail today. I sometimes wonder if I need to keep in mind the form I want or visualise the shape. I am focusing on slowing down and visualising where my line needs to go, watching the destination, It's still quite tricky. I keep coming back to "Simplify simplify"

Hello, beginner here. My first pear I drew some months ago on the free lessons from YouTube, and last week I decided to purchase the course and go over the basics properly. So here is my pear from the beginning of the year and redone pears in CS Paint, completed today. I realised my first time drawing the pear I hadn't adhered to using straight lines nor making edges, I assume of values, sharp. I enjoyed this exercise and could start seeing the smaller shapes and have been able to reflect back on what I did. Feels good! I am open to and welcome any input ^_^.

My two attempts. I did two since I got frustrated with my inability to shade within lines, practiced that and came back to try again.