Honestly, this was a lot more fun than I had expected. Now I know what I'll be doing in the class when I'm bored :)

Pear number 2 and the portrait, done this afternoon. I used Staedtler Mars lumograph pencils on a Canson XL Sketch notepad and I had a very hard time getting distinctive values using different pencils, especially in the 2 shadow values as you can see from my value scale on the portrait drawing. Did anyone else struggle with this? Shading with 8B did come out pretty much the same as holding the 2B at a steeper angle and I mixed them up...

Well can we also talk about how when I thought I could draw ok, that I can't seem to draw a boxman correctly?

2022/7/17. Good evening everybody. I've always loved borderline female characters. From Snow White's stepmother to Catwoman, from Elphaba from the musical Wiked, to the very recent Jinx from Arcane through Elsa from Frozen. I don't really know why. I find them all incredibly beautiful and strong but also very maternal and with an irresistible sensuality. Do I sound weird? However, among vampire ladies, witches and demonesses, one of my favorites is Lilith from the video game Diablo. This is a small tribute to "Benedecta Madre", Mephisto's beautiful daughter, Lilith. Conte B, charcoal, white charcoal and charcoal powder on smooth paper 42x29 cm.

@Marco Bucci I can't find the handout for this lesson. Could you add it? It's the one with the heads seen at 17:11.

This poster is about my art journey, specifically when the pandemic hit, and I had just turned 30. Growing up, I was discouraged from pursuing art in any way and was sometimes even told that I'm not talented enough to be an artist. They may be right about my lack of talent. But part of my quarter-life crisis was this realization that even in art, if you put in the effort, you improve. I feel like age 30 was when I really embraced this idea and started to commit work towards it. Getting back to the poster, the zombies in the background are everything in my life that was holding me back from fully connecting with art, such as self-doubt and lack of self-agency. I broke out of the prison that I grew up in, took a swing at the zombies, and gained a couple of art skill points along the way (hence the paint on my spiky baseball bat and clothes). Maybe due to the abruptness of the escape, I don't feel perfectly equipped to navigate the art world yet, like a freshly made game character that's still picking up gears from tutorial quests. So that's why I'm walking around barefoot. Well, that's about it for the summary, haha. Thank you for reading this far, and good luck everyone! :)