I loved this approach to drawing! It’s completely new to me, and I really enjoyed trying it out. Here are my attempts:

Heres my attempts.

I found myself first noticing the large, rounded mass of each seal’s head. From there, I began to see the connecting shapes, line of action, and overall direction of the pose. I don’t think I have exaggerated the gestures very much yet, but this exercise helped me begin to see the movement and energy of the subject rather than only its outline. I found it very useful. I would appreciate feedback on what I should focus on to make the gesture and energy clearer.

Here is my submission for level 1:

After watching the critique videos I tried to make the rest of the seals! there are some of them I completely disliked and some of them that I found better under my eyes, but it was an interesting project indeed!

Another page of these :)

I really had a lot of fun with this one. I really love the look of the little wrinkles and folds in their neck, makes the shapes interesting one might say! At first I really didn't understand what would make a shape interesting, but now I think I get it. I started with a gesture line and drew the seal around it.

Apologies for low res images. Had to downscale after adding seals to make sure the images added. 1st 3 pictures are from reference and last 3 are from imagination. I tried keeping gesture and cool shapes in mind but my main critique is the searching lines. Always room for improvement and yes I added some shading or hair to my seals to keep me motivated even tho it violates the suggestions of this assignment. When it comes to gesture and cool shapes, I kept thinking about looney tunes, cartoons and exaggerated features to purposely emphasize more of a characters personality or traits. I had fun and it’s taken me so long because I’ve had some bodily problems sitting and standing, I’m just grateful I was able to finish this assignment and I will keep working and doing personal projects. We really are at the hands of fate itself, no one knows when exactly we will transition but with every waking moment I can only be grateful that I get to draw another day. I had to accept and be at peace with knowing I may never be as skilled of an artist and recognized as I imagined myself to be for only time will tell. All I can do is accept myself now and embrace everything I draw. As long as I’m at peace drawing in my own way I can pass away at any moment without regret. Acceptance of where I am now is everything. I’m on the road to recovery but drawing has been my lighthouse, the beacon of hope keeping me mentally afloat amongst the chaos happening inside my body. I love y’all; keep drawing and making what your heart of hearts love. Peace everyone and have a great day!

Level 1 No inventions, just focused on the shapes

This was fun. Level 1: I decided to extra challenge myself by taking more bland poses because I´ve felt that those dynamic poses would be too easy and true learning will be done in those more flat, mundane lying poses. Then I did second page with reference (pic that says dynamic shapes with reference) which were bit more dynamic. I´ve found those poses more interesting and fun and I guess it shows. Level 2: When drawing from memory I relied on contortion. I remembered seals twirling in all kinds of C shapes and what not to I went with that. Starting on the right and moving to the left of the page. Then I drew few smaller poses and around to fill up the page. Was fun. Some were bit more successful than others. With some I tried to go bit too crazy and, well, it was too much. Overall, fun assignment and I hope fairly successful. Gotta check the demos and critique but still, please lemme know what I could improve. I was aiming for gesture and less of a finished drawing. These were quick sketches.

Hi! This is my first attempt. Overall, I’m happy with the result, but I’m not entirely sure if I did the project correctly. I know that the proportions aren’t always accurate, but I tried to focus as much as possible on capturing the dynamics of these animals. All feedback is appreciated!

my seals :)

Tried my best to get the shapes dynamic enough I need to get better at exaggerating the shape and sketching in the line.

After a long 1 year period of non-drawing due to life stuff I retook the course and started with this project and well, it was hella fun! Seals are cute and funny to draw. For me, something seems off, I don't feel my shapes are dynamic in most of the drawings and I can't see why (yet, I hope!). I drew 10 seals just by watching the project and the next 10 ones will be after the demo and the rest after the critique. (lvl 1)

I did ten seals and it was fun, that's all I have to add.

This is confusing. Someone explain it to me like i'm 5

I’m not entirely sure if I did it correctly. Would appreciate any feedback in case I did the assignment incorrectly (e.g. I feel like I wasn’t really drawing “shapes”? Or are these considered shapes? How can I improve better to sketch the “shapes”?)

I ended up happy with how most of these turned out. I think one thing I'll have to work on going forward is varying my lines more.

I really like how the top two turned out on this one. I had a harder time with the bottom left, and I like the one on the bottom right except for the fact that it looks like he has a sad face. But either way, this is a fun exercise! I think I'm going to try it with a few more animals and some other references for a while before I move on to the next projects

Here's my assignment.