Hi all, I'm a beginner when it comes to drawing. I'm also working through the drawing basics course but character design and animation is really what I want to be doing which is why I'm here! A few pages into this assignment and I'm struggling a bit. I'm not sure how to approach turning these people that I'm seeing into characters! Any tips would be much appreciated! I'm trying to play with proportions a little and I think that's helping but they quickly turn into something a bit too basic and too far from what I'm seeing? Here's what I've got so far, a couple I'm pretty happy with, the rest not so much haha. (Also ignore the ink, was just playing around with a brush pen which I'll be using in my upcoming sessions)

2/20 👽

Well, my fundamentals are not that strong and I did this page from pinterest references, I'll try drawing outside on the weekends. I like them all in general. I think I need to "speak" more clear on some areas, also I need to remember design tools like big/medium/small, contrast, complex vs simple, play with proportions, better rhythms, etc. to make the drawing visually interesting and nice. 1/20 😌

Hi! Did a few live sketches and a Disney copy assignment! I know I have to do a lot more but feel free to add some comments, for my improvement :) thanks !

Good day! Haha, i think i started a sketchbook over a year ago doing these trainstation sketches+other peoplesketching. It has been so fun and i hope i can continue it all the time. There has been totally shitti drawing days, can't get grip of people's characters ect. Here are the highlights! Thanks for looking!

I don’t really go out much so it’s hard to do the coffee shop sketches.

Did 3 pages today

Hey David, here's my first ever coffee shop sketches. I found this a lot harder than anticipated but I am getting used to it and already feel an improvement in my designs and decision making from these 15 pages so thanks, I'm definitely getting a lot out of this. I would love hear what you think about what I've done and how I'm going about it. Looking forward to doing more, cheers.

@David Colman And the second part

@David Colman Hello! Can you please comment on what I can improve in my drawings? This is the first part.

Please see below my first 6 sketches of people in my local coffee shop. This was allot of fun and very challenging I think I might have grown as a person doing this assignment. I am sure the first person I sketch I might have look at him a few too many times. Do we look once? that should be okay, twice? O no, three times? now I am in trouble for sure. What is the ethical thing to do should I ask them "can i sketch you?". I am going back tonight to do some more sketches. My one family member said If we are taking a picture out in public and someone walks by in the back ground we don't ask can I have this picture with you in it, my other family member was not as cool about it. What do you think?, did anyone experience the same thing? Also please critique my sketches. Thank you

Second part of the assignment, master copy (height of the figures 21-22cm). Loved this.

First 3 images are older sketches. Before I discovered Proko I saw Danny G. (in ‘21) on YouTube and I was inspired to keep sketchbooks and started drawing from television programs. The last 4 I did this week (2 from Yt) but I’m not content with those. Maybe I didn’t feel inspired.

Ok! It didn’t amount to 20 nor 15 pages, but at least I got to 12 digital sheets! I really wanted to push it to 15 but, I also wanted to get going with the other assignments and there hasn’t really been many good opportunities for me to do coffee shop sketching. So a good amount of these has been done a little bit differently; like taking a mental snapshot of people when buying groceries and then draw them from memory. I saw that there’s more coffee shop sketching further along the course so, I’m gonna plan for a day when I can really take my time at one place. Anyway, enough with the excuses. As a first assignment this really made me appreciate simple yet compelling characters even more. It’s difficult to distill a person into a believable character by just looking at them for a short period of time. And to find a balance of stylizing, pushing forms but still contain some similarity, while also not making a caricature. Looking forward to what comes next. And it goes without saying, any honest feedback that can help me improve is very much appreciated!

My master study assignment. As a self-taught person I never took part in any courses, so I have no idea if I done this correct. I did it as I thought it would be fine and I'm ready to redraw it if it's necessarily.

Here is part one of my assignment. I will upload the other ones in the reply-section of this post. The sketchbook i was using was very small, so i did more than twenty pages. I was walking through the city, and whenever i saw someone interessting i would try to memorize some of their distinctive features. Then i would go to the side and try to do a drawing of them, trying to capture whatever sparked my attention. I also tried to use some of the designadvice from the videolesson. It was raining on the first days and cold every day, so most of those drawings where done quite fast. Though it wasnt easy i had a lot of fun most of the time, i have never paid attention to what noses people have, or to how they walk before. Im really enjoying this course so far and i am exited to start with week two. Any critique would be very welcome.

My Shere Khan study submission for this lesson's homework

part 2 (mostly watercolor pencil). See the 1st post before critiquing. Thank you!

here's part 1, I'll include the last 5 in another post. So I really wanted to go out of my comfort zone with this one and play around with what I learned in the lecture, especially with tension, contrast, flats/rounds, and a bit with making simple silhouettes. I also wanted to play with anatomy (redesigning) the way the instructor pointed out with illustrators like Jamie Hewlett. I feel this worked out in some sketches but fear that others are too caricatured or feel anatomically awkward rather than decisive. I also did these in a week on top of my other homework and a job, so if the amount of content and diversity of style is underwhelming let me know. A bit of background, I graduated in illustration in 2019, have a long term goal of becoming a character designer, and so want to strengthen my fundamentals. Even if I don't go into entertainment art, becoming a better character designer is something that will help me in the short term, as I love making narrative art with expressive characters and environments and want to have the best fundamentals and draftsmanship I can.

Hey, I can't find the download for the shere khan study, could someone help me?