This was fun, really struggling with the measuring part though. I feel like I'm tilting my pencil, my arm is shaky, and my eyes hurt from having one of them closed. Tips would be appreciated. Anyway, I decided to try coloring the portrait with a watercolor pen, which was fun. Any feedback is heavily appreciated :)

Can i use a watercolour pad, but i draw with graphite

Alphonse Mucha study

Hi! Just started following the free version of the course, really excited to find out I could still make posts here. Although I don't have access to the project videos I've been trying my best to do them using the images in the free critique videos or just other images I find on the internet to put the theoretical stuff I've learned into practice. Here's what I've drawn so far and my commentary on it: 1. The pear! Drew it before I watched the critique video. 2. The face, had trouble with figuring out where the highlights in the hair should be, as well as just struggling with the values in general because of the red pencil. I also had trouble with simplifying the shapes where the lighter values of the face are, so those are a little more loose 3. Decided to have a go at sketching from imagination after I watched the demo, so I looked up images of toucans and drew them. 4. This one is also of toucans from reference, although I begin to try to exaggerate them a bit here 5. A page of toucans from imagination, trying to exaggerate and cartoonize them a bit 6. The full page sketch without shading 7. The final drawing. For having almost never drawn animals before I am pretty happy with how it turned out. 8. Drawn before watching the critique video (made the mistake of trying to copy it exactly lol) 9. Loose doodle of how I could try to push the gesture. Drawn after watching the critique video 10. My second attempt, after watching the critique video. Not happy with this one at all. Tried to push the gesture but I couldn't quite tell what I was supposed to push. I think it's a lot harder for me to push and exaggerate human shapes at the moment because of all the different limbs going in different directions. Was also getting increasingly frustrated which led to me rushing and my lines being bad. 11. Ended up doodling the penguin because it seemed easier and I needed to end the session on a better note lmao 12. After watching the video on habits for good line quality, and practicing the tips individually, I did a full page drawing, trying to practice all of them at once. Noticed I was struggling a lot with the S-curves, I ended up mostly separating them into multiple c-curves to be able to get them somewhat accurate. Also struggled a lot with ghosting. I mostly ended up ghosting just a little bit at the beginning of a line instead of actually following the full motion before drawing it. Finally, I also noticed that I struggle with getting a stroke that is properly tapered at the beginning and not just the end. Overall I'm pretty happy with the final drawing. 13. The reference picture for the previous drawing. Chose to draw something more cartoony so I could focus on the lines that are already clearly there instead of worrying about simplifying a realistic image. (art is by Sage Cotugno, I believe) 14. Drew cubes to test the different ways to use line weight! (don't know if my shading makes sense on any of these) This is the Hierarchy of Importance one. 15. The Depth and Form cube 16. The Light and Shadow cube. Any qritique (both positive and negative) on both the drawings themselves or my mindset/reasoning is of course heavily appreciated!! Also sorry for the incredibly long post xd