I know there are a lot of comments mentioning that this is a nice break from the proportion project, but it is the opposite for me. At least in the proportion project, I felt an underlying sense of how well it was going and had a proper vision of what I wanted to draw—even if the final result wasn’t fully accurate. Capturing the energy of the shape, forgetting about the outline, finding the gesture line, etc.—all of this feels way harder. Initially, I started in my standard-size sketchbook, but after a while, I found it really frustrating to draw on a small page, so I switched to my bigger drawing pad (11x14 inches). That size felt way more comfortable than my sketchbook. I spent weeks on this project, mostly due to frustration that I was not getting it. I did some studies on the gesture bean to try to "get it". I still feel like I don’t get it. But I have to move on to the next project. I absolutely fell for the snowman trap for seal #30. I love the comparison between the two attempts. P.S - all of the "post" drawings are after watching the demo and the critique videos.

This time I tried for actual shapes instead of just gestural lines. This definitely takes actual practice to get my hand to go where my mind wants it to go.

These creatures are so cute🥰 I love how they are basically a bunch of blobs but so expressive!

Here are my attempts for drawing the seals! I am having fun drawing seals as gesture. It helps me not have to be a perfectionist and just let go and have fun. First 3 images starting from the left are my attempt before watching demo. The last three images are my attempt after watching the demo. The numbers on the drawings define the image number of the reference from the seal images that Proko provided.

Here are my after demo attempts. Overall I'm pretty happy with them.

The project was so hard I have been trying to draw dynamic seal poses for about a week now and those are the last 4 I drew from memory and I am kinda happy with them (if you ignored my line work)

Absolutely loved drawing those!

This demo really helped!!

I'm not sure what it is, but sometimes I don't "see" the gesture that Stan is trying to indicate. And what normally looks like a basic straight line for the gesture, Stan sort of just...makes it S shaped anyways, because that's more interesting. Like the spine on the last drawing, it's head or top portion of the body is going straight for me, but Stan made it an S shape

I tried this both digitally and traditionally. From observation first (image 2, 3 and 4) and then from memory only (image 1), I tried to make new poses. It was hard but fun !

my 2nd try after the demo

2nd try after demo

@Martha Muniz All constructive criticism is appreciated!

notes from the video any critiques are appreciated thanks

Coming back from the dead (what a pity it isn't the 31st yet), I'm posting my after-demo shape design seals, always happy to get any criticism. :)

my before vs after demo. anywhere i can improve?

It was hard to understand how to make a good shape design, tried to did like the image but i think a missed the point.

Tried again after this video. Based on the demos here, I focused less on the apex points and angles, and more on where to break the symmetries.

Pre-Proko Seals. I felt like there was something wrong with all of them, but I can't figure out why. Anyway, any criticism is welcome

Hy everyone! Here are my first attempts! Happy of any critique!