watched the first 5 min of this vid and immediately knew i screwed up on the assignment lol (wasn't simplifying enough). tried again with a figure. any critique for my use of CSI?

CSI Practice

I did the boots & snail first, then watched the demo on them, and realized that I was kind of doing the project wrong. So i tried simplifying the last two a bit more.

I am a super noob at drawing. I was happy to see an improvement in my looser lines by the 3rd snail. The boots overwhelmed me, I want to practice basic lines and try the boots again.

Simplified camel number 2. No details, no shading, I tried to use sweeping strokes.

Here are my attampts. I did not add any shading, tried to emphasize on line confidence, and simplified the reference. Feel free to leave feedback or critiques. Thank you.

Here is my homework skull was fun :D

mein attempt.

Before vs After of Demon video

Tried Simplifying on different references, mainly animals. Any critique is welcomed.

2nd attempt

Doing the lines exercise on heads

I'm finding line quality really challenging. This has been a super humbling exercise. Time to practice... a lot.

First 4 are from before watching the demo and the other 4 are from after. I realized after watching the demo that I drew way too much detail and didn’t simplify enough. Any feedback would be appreciated!

Drew all 4 digitally. I do have a lot of difficulties simplifying organic things. I've mostly drawn animals in the past and yet I found the came the most difficult by far. I had to start using contour lines to understand it. Out of all 4, the boots are by far the easiest to draw. This stuff be weird.

My attempts at using CSI for the second lessons projects. The snail looks botched due to the fact I didn't warm prior to starting it but I feel like I started getting comfortable by the time I started on the camel which is my favorite of the three, the proportions look off but what I like the most about what I did is how smooth lines curve and how dark their values are. For the skull I allowed my self to get bored and impatient which is why it looks incomplete but despite that, I think it still communicates well what it represents

Feel like I've gotten better at the C and S curves but straights still throw me off, need to practice them more.

Think I got more confident after every drawing, still made many mistakes but went for confident lines, would love to hear suggestions

I'm sending the CSI project with additional examples - before and after watching the demo and critique. I see I still need to work on line confidence, so I'll probably revisit this exercise. I just have a question. Sometimes some of the drawings were too complicated for me, so on the first layer, I made a rough sketch (a bit messier but still using CSI), and on the second layer, I redrew it trying to use clean lines. Is this okay? Or should I do everything cleanly right away on the first layer?

Final set of images before moving on to the next lesson. I tried a 4B pencil this time instead of a regular 2B mechanical pencil. The pictures turned out ok, but the lines still feel a little off to me. I guess it will improve with practice.