sketches made during demo any critiques are welcomed

I tired to apply what I learned from the demo

Again, these are fun! Trying to pick my shape design skills back up.

A good exercise made me understand how to see and minimize shapes a keeping them simple

I tried my best to follow Stan's demonstration. How did I do? @Martha Muniz

Hello everyone! Got a quick question: anyone has an idea on how to draw a sheep so it doesnt look like a dog? ( I’m straggling going through this assignment :(

The demos really helped me in understanding how to better choose the shapes to represent the animals. I felt more confident and satisfied with the redraws of the animals that I did for the project previously. However, there's still much room for improvement. The reference images are the same as those I've posted for the previous video on the project submission. PS. The trick of making thumbnail sketches before drawing the actual animal was the most helpful for me in this case.

Enjoyed that exercise. Found it difficult to see shapes at first, but it made it so much easier and more fun once I started seeing them in the image.

I had a hard time actually finding simple shapes that would make sense. Especially on the pictures I chose myself.

I gave it another crack - simplication is something I really need to work on, so for this attempt, I kept it simple; went to unsplah; searched "animal" - and just scrolled and drew what was there 🤙 I'm much happier with these ones. It's such a skill and one that I think I might become addicted to 🤣

I have attached my references. Sort of guilty of just rushing these because they were very frustrating to me. I was not sure If I was just supposed to draw the face or the whole animal. I have watched the demo and critiques already. Going to try and redo them. Not really happy how these came out.

got the dog refrence from @Tony Zhang over here

My 15th attempt and time to move on… Jesus!

OMG birds are so freaking easy to draw and everything else is so hard!!!

My 13th attempt and I feel like I’m back to square one. LOL. I’ll try again tomorrow.

I came back to this exercise, because I don’t think I was having the hang of it. Maybe a bit better this time, but a lot of room for improvement.

How is the shape design? Don't mind the line quality. This is just a test.

Some quick attempts after watching the demo, much easier once you've seen a solution!

I am posting these way later than when I drew them, but here are my posts for the animal portrait project. This project really showed me how shape design can and should be simple yet dynamic, I really had fun challenging myself to break down the character, and the fact our shapes were not limited to basic ones helped me to understand how shapes can be used as opposed to relying on contours.

I did the demo animals, as well as other animals. For some of them, I need to look into simplifying shapes more and not just doing random shapes.