That was a humbling experience, lol.

The character is Arthur Morgan :) and I kinda like the 8m. this one was a fun exercise!

Here is my part 2 of the assignment. I liked the way the assignment helped my choices for the final drawing by keeping simple lines from the minute drawing, along with tones from the first to emphasise the wedge like solid beard appearing to be supporting the pipe. Without my knowing these elements were drawing my focus in each drawing and by contrast very little focus to the hat, that continually shows throughout the drawings.

I found the drawing that I like best the drawing that took one minute to draw, as it looked lively in contrast to the beard and pipe looking solid. I didn’t render it all as I wanted to keep some of the line drawing from the minute session. I found the hat the hardest as you can see it keeps changing throughout.

Great exercise, I will try to remember to do it now and then. Pretty intense though, working with such focus for 2.5 hours. I feel totally drained. I like 30 min and 4 min. Kind of weird how the 2 minute one deviates so much from the others.

I chose the two minute one to finish, though I like the 30 second one (I like it enough that I didn’t even want to shade it lol)

This is my first time trying something like this. I think it's a sure way to find a style that doesn't feel forced. Something I struggle with, trying to force it. The mistakes I noticed were lengthening the neck and adding too much forehead. I found the 1 minute drawing to be most compelling.

Finally. I was afraid to start with this - but here it is. In 2 minutes he suddenly turned into a Chinese sage. I kept this for the final drawing, but everything I added digitally seemed to ruin the original paper drawing (9B and a graphite stick). So I only made the pipe more visible and let it smoke. Carefully added here and there some white hairs. Interesting to go through this assignment. 😅

Great exercise, I don't think the likeness is all the way there in these. I spent too much time trying to figure out the jaw line in the first attempt. I prefer the 30 minute one where I pushed the values some more. The most interesting one to me was the 30 second attempt. I tried to keep the shadow shapes simple.

HAHAH that was a lot of fun, obviously a sense of scale abandoned me when time started to press and a person quickly changed to a completely different individual, but still, it is a cool task to work on) I've decided to change materials from time to time to find something ) it didn’t quite work out, but brought a lot of smiles) As far as interesting goes though - curiously my 8 minute drawing is more accurate than 15 or 30, at some point, I’ve changed his chin and carried the wrong one with me till the end on the bright side - right eye stays consistent!!👀😂 Though I chose 4min one to add values and form back a bit via the use of calque) - I like the feel of brush and if I wasn’t in a hurry - pretty sure I wouldn’t butcher negative spaces as bad) Good day and smiles to anyone who reads it.. if someone does 😅

I love this kind of stuff! It was interesting to me how, as the time shortened and I began to feel stressed by the ticking of the clock, my lines actually became bolder and more confident. I wasn’t expecting that! I like the 1 min drawing the best - it has a Matisse-like quality that surprised me. I started to fill it in with shading and detail, and decided that I actually like it better in its simplicity. So I stopped.

Interesting iteration process to find the gem and simplify; tend to shorten necks, change to front view, and focus on features. At 1 min pure linear drawing appeared; final based on 1 min

I've realized that I tend to elongate shapes in general. I didn't notice it when I did the one-hour drawing, but I did when I saw all the versions together. This tendency persists across them. However, I found the four-minute sketch particularly interesting and used it as the foundation for the rendered version. Moving forward, I'll be more mindful of this habit—though I may still do it, at least with awareness. Great exercise!

Wow, what I ride. Fun, though! I focussed so much on the values, that I lost the tilt of the head... oh well. I chose the two-minute-one for the final.

Woof. That was a great exercise. I noticed that the eyes kept drifting slightly higher and to the right with each iteration. The 30-second sketch was the most interesting, so I created a more illustrative version with references.