Since I already attempted the penguin, hand, and VR girl I wanted to try something new; as per Stan's advice. So, I cracked open my Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order art book and found this bird that I wanted to give a shot. I am still trying to find searching lines, but here is my attempt. I would love feedback if anyone has some!

Had lot of fun drawing these without rely on erasers. Before demo@Proko

Post demo

I tried again after watching the demo. I still find it hard to be loose.

I had a hard time loosing up with the robot girl compared to the organic lines of the penguin. I was way too focused on the clean outlines of the robot girl. One made pre demo and a second attend after watching the demo

Drawing from the shoulder is challenging but had fun with the exercise.

Redid these

1st . After demo 2nd. Before demo

1st. After demo 2nd. Before demo

Used a different ref to practice extra. I feel like I understood the shapes better my second attempt. I still need to work on using light lines and focus on confident lines more. (Top is second attempt.)

Mixed success here I guess. I can see some insecure scratchy lines, and some nicer strokes. Did a few outside the prescribed exercises to get some more practice in. I think my biggest problem (ignoring proportion stuff) here is line weight perhaps? My line weight is very inconsistent, due to lack of control rather than strange decisions being made. I see there's a line weight exercise coming up, so looking forward to that one!

Did the Penguin and hand before watching the demo's I'm going to watch the demo's up untill the VR girl before trying that and doing some other animals. Just wanted to make sure if I'm actually being in the right ball park with how things are supposed to go and how the exercise is supposed to be done. Hands are hard as hell!

While doing and watching this exercise, a doubt arose in me. When you go over a line several times, do you press only in one direction or in both? For example, if you made a horizontal line and you passed the pencil from left to right, do you draw only when the pencil goes in that direction or also when it goes back from right to left.

Hand and Penguin before watching demo. I definitely have a hard time getting into that sketch mindset. I keep defaulting to contours, since I still don't quite understand yet.

First attempt before watching any of the videos. I think the Penguin turned out the worst, it looks like some kind of penguin-eagle hybrid. Head/beak should be smaller and I didn't capture the pose well at all. Pretty happy with the shape of the hand. For the robot I really tried to focus on capturing the motion and leaning back posture and I think I did ok. Any feedback would be welcome.

I tried again after watching the video, giving myself much more freedom to make lines everywhere. I tried to draw some cats this time to switch things up a bit.

I really enjoyed this exercise :) After watching the critique i tried to "catch the energy"

Back after a long break. From left to right are the ones done before watching the demo then the ones done after. Still shaking off some rust so let me know any thoughts on improvement.

After my attempt on drawing the "spider hand" reference, I got motivated to try drawing a foot. Here is my attempt. Honestly, this was hard for me because I wanted the proportions to come out good, especially the toes. What do you guys think?