Here’s reference pic with the drawing

Hey @David Colman hope you're well! Design From Life 3.0; Focusing on all of your feedback, with extra attention paid to the balancing of straights and curves. I can clearly see now that knowing the real human figure will bring out better cartoon characters, 100%; during this round of work I experienced many design problems where I wish I knew the figure better so I could solve them easier. I think I'm getting it :) but I'd love to hear your thoughts, cheers! PS. I got a bit carried away rendering some of these designs, I promise I wasn't falling in love with my work, I was just excited because my designs were looking cooler lol. Also, those are pool cues... I imagined those characters as opponents in a pool tournament haha Thanks

Hey @David Colman, here's my re-submission for this chapter's assignment. I wrote down your feedback on stickynotes, stuck them in front of me while I studied and drew, and rewatched Chapter Ones' 'What Is Design?' lecture with more focus. I've been studying J.C. Leyendecker's anatomy from his book and have found a lot of inspiration from Carter Goodrich in particular, but also Bill Pressing, Hans Bacher, and Brandon Ragnar Johnson. I think I've improved but what do you think? I would love a critique, cheers!

And finally, my attempt to design the adjective depressed using curves. I had a few goes at this. I'm thinking of it as heavy and hanging. I tried to add some movement in there to make it seem as if it was trying to escape itself. And also some overlapping areas to try and get a sense of sheltered and scared. I'd love to get a critique on how I went with this exercise, the way I thought about it, and the design elements I used to convey it. Thanks :)

My coffee shop sketches for this week. They were all done at the beach or park so lots of sunglasses this time round. I definitely feel I'm gaining traction with these but still very much a 'you win some, you loose some' kind of situation at the moment, so some I love and some I'm like, oh dear that is a bad drawing lol. I know for sure from these I need to study the face more, when it comes to making up ears, mouths, and noses after the person I'm drawing has disappeared, I always draw the same basic things Would love a critique on how I'm going :)

Hi @David Colman here's my Design from Life figure drawings for this lessons assignment. I'm striving for good design and energy as you've described in the videos, trying to capture the movement and really feel the pose. I would love a critique on how I've done and way's to improve. Cheers! :)

Figure drawings from a live drawing session, with elements of crossed/open, straight/curved/triangle, high/low. All poses less than 10 min, in the 4th image 1 or 2min. (The coffee shop sketches I would have to do another time.) Last drawing is the 3rd part of the assignment: the adjective ‘depressed’ expressed only with curved lines.

Here is my submission for the week two homework. The first pictures are the design-figure-drawing-attempts. I found it quite difficult, but it helped me to think more about design. The next one are my depressed shapes. The last twelve drawings in brown and blue are some sketches of people in the city. This week i would walk arround and whenever i saw someone interessting, i would try to memorize as much as possible. Then i searched for a place where i could sit down, and then i would draw them. This week i took more time on each city-drawing, trying to give thought to every detail, trying to implement some design rules. I think they turned out a lot better than the ones from last week. I am very happy with the course, and very exited and motivated to start with week three tomorrow. Any feedback would be highly appreciated.

If anyone needs figure references to draw I use a website called quickposes, it has a lot of good stuff https://quickposes.com/en Also line of action is another good one: https://line-of-action.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing It might help with the assignments

For these I did a mix of digital and traditional media. It was fun to do the only curves “depressed” artwork. Any feedback is appreciated, thank you!

I was feeling great doing the abstract sad forms, it was just going with the flow and I loved it

Hey! I've finally completed the 2nd assignment: 1)Figure drawing without (or almost) design as a warm-up 2)Figure drawing+design based on it 3)Depressed shapes 4)Sketching from life, photos and videos. I have a problem with sketching from life: I'm kinda slow, I can't observe and design at the same time (+super shy). @David Colman do you have any advice on how to practice this skill (I mean, something extra to just go practice :))? 

Hi, I have completed my second assignment and I'd like to ask you for feedback. I'm still very fresh in traditional art and feel a bit more confident digitally. 

Here are the rest of the drawings from the Chapter 1 assignment.

Here are 10 out of the 16 pages that were from the Chapter 1 assignment. What I had used for this assignment, was graphite, gel pen, and non-photo blue colored pencil.

Here is the rest of the assignment.

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@David Colman Hello. You have mentioned that you will upload references for figure drawing but I can't find them in this course. Can you please take a look at this problem and check if they are uploaded?