Love to see people focusing on fundamentals. I avoided them for so long and I wish I hadn't! Now I'm playing catch up myself. Keep up the great work here. You will grow much faster practicing structure and shapes first like this!

Hi! These are really great studies and you're definitely heading in the right direction!! It's really cool to see you breaking down forms and practicing simple 3 dimensional shapes and I love how you are really pushing yourself to play with different perspectives and rotations of the shapes, and you can clearly see that you're simplifying forms well. I have some tips on things you could improve on/ keep in mind but I am by no means a professional myself so take what I say with a pinch of salt. 1. one thing to bear in mind is maybe practicing your line quality to get more comfortable with using a pen and making clean, decisive lines. There are lots of good exercises for this, for example on drawabox, that just let you practice being intentional with lines, in places you are starting to get some scratchy, marks and lose control of the line weight. This style might be a stylistic choice when making a finished image, but when doing studies like this it might make it easier for you to visualize if you have more concise linework. maybe also a harder pen with less line variation might help. 2. keep in mind the direction and dimensionality of the forms you draw. On your cube and cylinder studies, you've got a really good grasp of perspective but it feels like when applying it to a reference, you lose confidence in each of those forms. make sure when you're drawing a cylinder or cube you are very conscious of which face is closer to the viewer, is a cylinder is tilted up, you should show the bottom face, an example is in the legs, you tend to lose the dimensionality you had in your studies (this is very normal and it's the hard part of applying simple forms so don't worry!!). 3. the purpose of being intentional is that you know exactly what form you're drawing before you do it, not leaning on the photo but actively making decisions with each form you draw. For example with the legs of the rabbit or the torso of the horse, just be clear in your mind and try and visualize on the page that cylinder before you draw it so you don't end up with that sort of uncertainty in your overlapping lines. Again, these are fantastic, keep up the good work. I hope my feedback could be helpful :D

These are awesome! The animal simplifications are full of life and gesture, great job! I advise once you feel comfortable with those simplifications to slowly add more complex shapes, specifically for the torso of the cheetah. If you observe closely, it would be a great next step to break that down into two shapes to account for the dip of the stomach inward. Great job! I look forward to seeing more from you in the future, @andypandi !

You're on the right track with these. This is THE conceptual breakthrough that will unlock your ability to pull things (kicking and screaming if necessary) from your imagination. For your boxes, pay special attention to make sure none of your three line systems are diverging. The lowest box on the bottom, for example, has lines that are going down and away from each other, when they should be going down and closer together. When drawing cylinders, the more convergence you have, the more open the ellipses should be. In extreme cases, you can even get away with drawing a circle, and the convergence will sell the form. Also, the ellipse that is further away from you is going to be slightly more open than the one closer to you. A lot of the time you can get away with drawing both with the same degree of ellipse, but the one further away shouldn't be less open. Seriously, though, great job in tackling your studies this way. It takes time, but you have a great approach. I've attached a couple of diagrams that might help with the cylinders. Understanding this took me waaaaaaaay longer than it should have, and held me back for years. If you can really nail this, it will help you solve tons of drawing problems.