I have been having trouble moving on from projects ever since I started this course. I always seem to find a reason not to move on or something I could improve on. When do I know I’m ready to move on to the next project and what should my goal be. Should I strive for perfection and try to apply the concepts mentioned until they become effortless and intuitive or should I practice just enough so I could say I got some valuable information out of the project which helped me improve. Critiques or more than welcome.

This my Pokémon result .

Loosening up was the toughest part for me on this one, but find the shape became really fun once I got more gestural with it and found the relationships between the body I was building. Nonetheless, any advice you guys have helps, let me know!

Did the warmups before tackling this project. Definitely helped to loosen up, but definitely found that I wasn't as accurate as I would have liked to be. I think it may be from drawing for longer periods without looking back at the references. Either way, I had a lot of fun with the imaginative drawing. Couldn't attach all the references, but had a lot of fun designing one after the fact with the CSI lines, and then continuing into another sketch that I decided to ink for fun

some sketches of squirrels

Here’s my character based on a manta ray. I’ve never done a character sheet before but this was a lot of fun! Also a bonus sheet for an opossum I gave up on.

Not sure if I fulfilled the requirements on this one. Maybe my sketches was a little simple, I enjoyed doing it though.

My experiment of a tardigrade character. This was fun to do. I'm a bit disappointed by the end character, which did not come out as powerful and badass as I wanted it to be. An animal without a real face is quite a challenge ! :)

Very happy with the shape design of the trex's mouth and tail, not so happy with his legs. Finding a nice pose for the boring panda body aas djn

Attempt at sketching a wasp. Think I did pretty well on the first image then on the second page I did a lot more line searching than I needed to do to not being familiar with other views, particularly the belly view. Ill have to practice once or twice more on this one. Also I think I need to control the darkness on my sketch lines here since the lines that are meant to be darker look feathery on top of the lighter ones.

i chose to draw some birds (agapornis), also i challenge my self to draw mirroring one of the birds :D, really fun project

Submission for the "Sketch from Imagination" project. Learning about it from all the memes in 2024, I chose the animal hyrax. :) Reference photos were simply the first few results from a Google image search. I explored the animal across several quick sketches, trying to distill its shapes and learn what differentiates a hyrax from animals of a similar build. I made a few character-building attempts that, while decent by themselves, didn't communicate this little critter's lovable, chaotic energy. Only when I attempted a sketch with its iconic "AWAWA" shouting posture did I find satisfaction in the end result. The final version is a hyrax under the shower, realizing there's no towel nearby and shouting for assistance. Awawa! :))

I'm definitely a level 1, but I wanted to give this a try after I watched the "imagination cramps" video. I often refer to my mini-Dachshund as a 'little chef', and it just seemed like the perfect opportunity to try to draw a bit of what I imagined he would wear when watching us in the kitchen. I wish I knew how to draw a chefs coats, but with my limited knowledge this is what I came up with. I found myself smiling when making this, and I really appreciate Stan giving me an opportunity to let my imagination flow! If anyone has feedback, I would only ask to be kind. This was a challenge for me to do, but I had a blast making it!

Spent too much time focused on the head I think, without refernce I got pretty lost trying to workout the body and wings. Fun exercise though, I will defiantly continue to do this on my own.

Alright, after watching Stan's demo and part of the critique video and since I was not very satisfied with my work I tried again and came up with this... The one drawing without reference is the one I made up, obviously.

Hi guys! I wanted to attempt the imagination project because I love to come up with characters! My biggest issue is that I really struggle to get down what I’m imagining in my head. However, I think it’s good to challenge yourself and get out of your comfort zone. I find that I learn a lot from that, so here I am! I found some neat bug pictures and wanted to create characters inspired by them. My first is a soldier inspired by the horned beetle and a few other bugs. I wanted him to be a lot more beefy because beetles are built like that, but it was a little difficult for me to translate! In my head his armor is either iridescent or a dark color. Next up is a lanky being inspired by the praying mantis. Perhaps they’re some kind of council member? Next in the left corner is a little doodle of another possible soldier. I have barely any anatomy knowledge and I wanted to try anyway! I’m not too proud of how they turned out but we gotta start somewhere. They were going to be another soldier with a kind of antennae adorning the back of their helmet? This project was a ton of fun and I’ll definitely be doing more of these in the future.

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Frill Dragon

Hi :). I am not familiar with the anatomy of lizards and I think it shows in my drawings. If I did it again, I would take a subject I am more familiar with OR I would spend time sketching from observation before drawing more freely from imagination OR I would use the references only for inspiration (and I would not necessarily try to draw a lizard). If I did it again, I would definitively spend more time and effort on the preliminary sketches to build a "visual library" (I think I am using that term correctly) before going into the final sketch. I enjoyed exploring ideas on paper and seeing how it affected my interpretation of the sketches.