@Morgan Weistling I am loving the process and find it very interesting how my brain is affected by doing that type of drawing. It feels very unnatural to me and took a lot of effort and concentration to do the head. I kept getting which side of the eye, for instance that I was working mixed up. I really struggled and had to give it all my attention to really look and see, and observe. Near the end it was coming more naturally. I think this was a great exercise to do. I'm am going to try some more periodically. I drew it by observation initially and then used a measuring calliper (not sure what it's actually called) to make sure and correct where needed. For the vase, after I drew it (I used horizontal lines to mark spots I thought were important for comparison) and outlined it, i saw places I was off, so I tried to fix it by eye after I'd already outlined it with marker, so that explains the thicker pencil lines! I'm watching ahead in your videos then going back to do assignments. I'm excited to start the paint mixing exercises next! Thank you so much for doing this course! You're an excellent instructor!

First attempts at the mirroring assignment. Started with a grid but then switched off and just free handed. Shows on the chin. 🥴 struggle with my attention span.

My new favourite tool - the ruler. these exercises are brilliant!

For the vase I use 2 outside vertical lines and 1 center line. I also had to turn it upside down.....scary to see what one can miss when you do that! It is not perfect but tried to use as little help as possible. For the head I did use a few measurements for some key proportions. Tried to eye as much as possible. needless to say, I did have to use my eraser here and there. further I used black matt graphite pencil, a mono zero eraser and a home made stump. I did struggle to get the darks dark enough.

Straight edge was used on the goblet. I ended up using a 90* triangle on the face so I could try to get some perpendicular help going. At least one of these lines based off the center I screwed up on and of course that was for the eyes so I ended up "fixing" them a couple times more times than I'd like to admit; before I caught that. Wolfs carbon on printer paper wasn't much fun either but I'm mitigating that by just not going full dark. Ie I'm too lazy I guess. Great exercises though. Practicing eyeing and measuring angles is never bad.

Reposting mirror assignment.

I did this assignment with some horizontals and verticals instead of a grid and did the head from observation. I have been drawing that way for a while now.

I just folded the paper to make the grid markings for the vase, but for the tonal drawing I used my rolling ruler with 1 cm guides to grid everything. It's still difficult to get everything placed perfectly, but flipping it helps make it more obvious where to shave off edges that went off the mark using a mechanical eraser.

Here are my mirror drawings. I used a ruler to draw guidelines and a tool (that I don’t know the name of) to measure from the center or edge lines. I learned that for the area very complicated and where I struggled, if I try to see it as an abstract shape, it helped me to define a form a little better. I will need more experience to have that point of view in practice.

A quick first attempt. I’ll do this again! The ear was really hard and eye wasn’t easy. Fun though

Here’s my “Bargue” drawing.

Well this is surprisingly fun! I started with a center line. I tried measuring but that seemed awfully tedious and probably not terribly helpful in progressing. The thing that seemed most helpful was tracing the printed side with my left finger while I drew the right side with charcoal (nitram). I’m right handed, so leftys would need to reverse that. Thanks for the extra exercises!

I used a combination of folding paper and using the ruler to complete.

Well I went a little overboard, but I did realize there are a multitude of landmarks to measure the angles and different tilts to bring about a more accurate drawing. I liked this exercise very much and I gained knowledge.

What a great exercise. I found out that I have trouble keeping things leveled and evaluating size. I used lines to mark the main direction changes on the vase and turned the sheet sideways and upside down to help me draw the curves. I used a grid plus a proportional divider to keep me honest with shape size for the head exercise. I had trouble with the different shapes in the hair and the ear.

Tried to show tilts and angles from different various anchor points, eyeballed the curves.

Hi🙋! Really enjoyed doing this assignment, eventhough I see that some stuff is off…I used the grid method in both cases. Struggled a bit with the ear and eye, where I had to remind myself multiple times to only draw what I see in the particular field and not to overthink everything. Many greetings 👋

Hi!

Left image I used the grid method. Right image I actually tried to use a mirror.

Not so sure this is correct , but here it is!