Excuses first- lines are awful and wobbly because I was trying to draw these outside and its like 5 degrees my fingers were so frozen. My baby only sleeps hands free outside in the pram so that's where I draw! Took me a couple of tries just to accurately capture the shape of the dolls house dresser with the right no of drawers... Simplifying it into basic shapes was an interesting exercise in itself. Picture taken of original object in case anyone's interested. Issues that arose- not sure if it's an issue with my brain or my blobs but I kept realising I basically had the same view of my object but just rotated or back to front?! I found it hard to make a blob for a foreshortened object and had to redo the drawing because it came out so bad! Any tips on getting interesting blob shapes to begin with? I obviously don't have the creativity for it yet but need to figure out whether that's something that can be learnt/developed

This project was fun! I did a few sketches from reference to get a good idea of a stingray's structure. I wish I explored a little more to draw a more imaginative character at the end. I'll definitely do this again!

Hello, this was definitely the project I struggled the most with till know, I had allot of trouble trying to internalise the characteristics and features of the animals which made it harder to exaggerate those features for my final sketch. I’m definitely excited to do more of these and I’d be more than happy to receive some critiques.

Here are my homework

This was a tough but fun project - it's pointed out a lot of things I need to work on! I will need to keep practising to hammer home the things I've learnt. I struggled seeing and simplifying some of the values, especially in the portrait - in particular I mistook the darker halftone on the cheek and neck for a shadow value and ended up assigning three values to the shadows instead of the light. Watching the demos and critiques really helped, so I gave it another go. I also spent a long time trying to measure on the second time around!

Had a go with the portrait. It was so hard to commit to just 5 values! In hindsight I should have used more than one pencil to help keep things clearer for me. I kept changing my mind what bits should be which values. On top of that keeping an eye on proportion is hard enough and trying to stay accurate while also trying to design shapes??? I got a bit lost! I'm rethinking some of the values I chose, particularly that dark shadow round the chin.... Looking forward to watching the demo and critique. If anyone has any specific advice it would be much appreciated!

First image was my first attempt. I knew it wasn't great, I struggled with making any interesting shapes and I was just going straight off the reference without focusing on the forms I was trying to make. I then did drawing 2 just to quickly go through some of the ideas from Stan's demonstration. My third drawing I tried to bring together what I'd learnt into the next reference. What a humbling exercise! I feel like I need to draw 1000 more pears. There is so much to learn. Please let me know what I can do better. I think I need to work on simplifying the forms and designing better shapes the most, but there's probably more.

Just joined a couple days ago. I'm trying to get better at basically everything, but my favorite things to draw are people and animals. My main focuses are ink and digital paint. I'm also working on improving my animation skills which currently don't really exist. I'm trying to get better at portraits, too, but I have a lot of trouble creating a likeness. (ignore the hand on the 6th image, it looks worse to me each time I see it lol) If anyone has any advice/critiques on anything, I'd love to hear it.

Here are my assignments for the upper back muscles. Any feedback would be much appreciated.   Great lessons as always! :) 

08/01/2022. Hello, I’ve done a few mannequins with a bit of landmarks. I found myself struggling to find the perspective of the torso, especially if it’s twisting. Any feedback is welcome, thanks!