Drawing Basics- Simple Animal Portraits- Level 2-- Not quite daring enough to completely transform the horse, but I tried to follow Melanie's advice (thanks!) about considering the complete shape: I drew a general "shapes" horse, deconstructed it to make sure there were actual shapes, then reconstructed it and detailed it up a bit. Then I also tried the 3 sushi-chef shapes: circular, triangular, rectangular.

Had a lot of fun with this one, i dont usually feel comfortable exploring with character design and simplifying the animals first to basic shapes has helped me a lot!

Learning how to be free and explore more but these shape lessons are fun and looking to keep building up the skillset of manipulating shapes. Stan makes it fun! Any feedback is welcome

This is my attempt for level 2 before the demo. I was struggling with this exercise in the beginning because I felt that I was too safe, and too geometric with my shapes. If you take a look on the first image on the left, chickens 1 to 3 were too stiff, and too geometric. I did not know how to stretch my shapes or how to. It felt a bit like I had to draw from imagination. So I went on pinterest and studied some designs visually. I went back and did chickens 4 to 6 and I did my best to be loose and not so perfect. I wanted to make my shapes more organic. So with each animal I focused on stretching the circles, squares and traingles. I hope it looks good. :/

One thing I observed when coming up with new shape designs is that the idea to come up with is kinda hard in its own. Designing and modifying the shapes wasn't the hard part for me, but coming up with ideas for different and interesting shapes was the challenging thing for me. Any advice would be much appreciated.

Well, there are my sketches copying what Stan does. In one of them I got carried away by my imagination...I hope you like them. I think the loose lines are becoming more and more noticeable.

After watching this video I was really shocked to see to what extent Stan has the ability to play with shapes and take them to his field. I have realized how much I still have to practice in order to advance. You can really see the years of practice Stan has in drawing. My most sincere congratulations. Until now I had not realized to what extent my creativity is blocked. My lines are coarse to variegated.

Went all in on the circle, square, triangle idea. It's alot of fun to have completely different characters out of the same idea.

Redo of project done during watching the demo any critiques are welcomed thanks.

I am very satisfied with how these came out. I tried to follow what Stan was doing but at the same token let myself be a little loose. But all criticism is welcome to help me improve. @Martha Muniz

Hi there! The animal I worked on is the snow leopard. I tried several variations and attached a picture of the leopard. I would be delighted if you could give me a critique on the shape design.

I tried changing the perspective and testing some shape changes.

I am done, today was tiring day, I will post rest2 tomorrow most probably, hope so, I want to....

It was fun trying to think of the different ways to change the shapes of each of the animals. I definitely felt that birds are one of the more easier subjects, compared to other mammals like a dog, for instance.

I think I pushed my designes to far to the simple shape I choose. I'll try again keeping it closer to the animal.

My sketches for the animal portrait exercise. It was a lot of fun.

Not the most jaw droppingly original designs here... but I did not know I could draw like this! I was able to manipulate and turn things in space without additional references... this is the best! What a great lesson this one has been. Thank you! 🥳

18… I think I’ll move on.

Animal Portraits 17… man I feel like I’m not getting better at all lol.

A few fantasy creatures me and my friends designed as a kid!