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.

drawings made during critiques. any advice welcomed thanks

Here is my homework the. Rooster is really fun :D

I tired pry mantis and variety of dogs to apply what I learned from. The crtique

There were some hits and misses with this set of practices. I find that I might be trying to focus on all the different pointers at once, which makes the result a little lost. However, I do think that this attempt is better in terms of the shapes explored compared to previous tries. Still need a lot of practice though.

I’m doing this project again . I’m encouraged that i got it wrong

This is the most fun lesson , i can draw any animal and make it cartoony

Still struggling quite a bit to make these look interesting at all or to put down the shapes in way that feels like they make sense, but I think these ones are at least a bit better than the initial ones I tried before the demo and critique?

I've been struggling a lot with these. I think I'm finally getting this down a bit though, albeit I could still try and push/pull the shapes more.

Here are my first and second attempts for each of the shape simplifications and explorations. I struggled keeping a limit of ten shapes, and I kept my explorations straightforward. But after watching Stan's demos, I was able to draw more confident simplifications of the animals and my explorations were more varied. Critiques would be appreciated.

Stan I can’t tell you how useful the critique videos are…

Combination of Lv.1 and Lv. 2 for Gorillas, Huskies, and Angler Fish. Angler Fish was the easiest, while the gorillas were the hardest. My line quality and accuracy suffered a bit as I was trying to move fast enough to keep the ideas going. I also had a tough time making subjects square. Like in the husky in this example looks like a Minecraft dog. Maybe I'm taking the square shape too literally, and I should try focusing more on making the composition square rather than the individual shapes square?

Simple animal portraits, Level 2

Hey guys. I have a question regarding Stan's critique. So what is the point with 2D (=shapes) vs 3D (=forms) in this project? I wonder why Stan critiqued the 3D forms in the first critique and then praised the 3D wolves @ minute 10??Maybe it is my fault and I see 3D when we have 2D :) Can anyone enlighten me?

I find these demos and critiques to be very helpful. I always learn a lot from these videos. Sometimes, I even find mistakes that I made and learn from Proko’s comments about those pieces. Other times, I simply watch how others do it great.