One thing that Stan pointed out in the critique video I thought was really important; to think about what you’re going to draw in your mind before you put your lines/shapes down. I don’t think I’ve been doing that enough and drew too fast without thinking, which lead to both my lines and shapes looking unattractive and all over the place. So I did the project again, this time with some new animals that I picked out, trying to force myself to think before I draw, and to take the process more slowly. It was definitely frustrating and even physically difficult sometimes to break out of this habit, and I’ve definitely let myself loose multiple times during this drawing session and drew too fast. Will focus on practicing better tempo alongside next projects.

I tried this again. I feel like I'm not ready yet to push shapes too much and I felt discourage like some of the comments mentioned about not having enough knowledge but seeing Stan video critique made me realized some mistakes I was having like focusing on the outline WAY TOO MUCH. Still a difficult exercise but I feel more happy noticing the little improvement after Stan advice :) I need to keep coming back at this one honestly.

I drew along with the critique video. Lines and confidence have greatly improved!

The great rooster family and their pet hippo

I tried the lvl 2 project with a cat, it's my first time doing this but i like the results. I appreciate any kind of suggests, thanks you!

Here's some portraits after watching the critique. I think I did a good job with the simplification, but I feel like I cannot draw confident lines anymore no matter how much I practice, my lines look much more dirty than in the picture. Also I have troubles drawing shapes like the trump of the elephant as you can see in the little practicing I doing in the bottom left corner of the last image. I'm trying to draw long smooth lines but I don't know if its the paper that doesn't let me draw smoothly or not. Any advice to improve on the lines and the shape design? You think I'm moving too quickly between assignments and I should had spend more time on the line section?

I feel like my line quality has been deteriorating lately.

gave it another go. this is surprisingly difficult.

gave it another try after watching the critique. feels like they are still to complicated shapes

I struggled with this one I just feel like the shapes didn’t capture the animal properly with some of them and when trying to modify the proportion I feel like I just lost what was unique to the animal so would love any feedback back

I felt like I could have pushed my shapes more.. So I tried again. Here's my second attempt.

i feel like i struggle alot with this course and need to start it again. but im having fun! enjoy this meatloaf

After watching the critique, I figured I needed to simplify even more.

Not happy with most of these, but I guess I'll keep trying with other animals

After watching proko's review, I wanted to focus even more on the 2D contours. I find these exercises just incredibly instructive and also amusing. It's just amazing how characters are created just because of the variation of shapes.

any suggestions please

Gave it another try after watching the critiques. I'm very much a beginner any tips would be very much appreciated!

Here are my attempt for simple animal portraits level 2. I used an owl, monkey and my dog kenny.

Redraw everything after watching critique video.

When I followed the demo, the exercise seemed simple and fun, but creating my own shapes was much harder. I’m not completely satisfied with them. I guess I need more practice.