Great improvement over these exercises! Your self-assessment is spot on, feel free to take more time with these. Resist the urge to rush while sketching, just practice moving your arm with confidence when you make lines. Theres a tough balance to finding the speed you are most comfortable drawing. Too fast, and your proportions and accuracy will suffer, and you'll develop a hard habit to overcome, and too slow will start to impact your line quality with shaky indecisive lines. Just remember confidence is the goal, think about drawing loosely, holding the pencil lightly, and finding your lines naturally. Practice ghosting your lines like in the Mario Mushroom warmup before you commit a line to the page. That exercise will also help you start to dial in the speed you're comfortable working. Try them slow, fast, and then somewhere in between that feels the most comfortable to achieve your desired results. Eventually you'll find the right tempo for you. https://www.proko.com/course-lesson/warmup-mushrooms You really captured the proportions of the Spidey-hand and Penguin well in your later attempts! Before you get started sketching try to visualize where the whole sketch will live on the page and mark off a light envelope around the space where you think the drawing should fit, and try to keep your proportions within those boundaries as you continue to sketch. Hope this helps! Keep it up!

Yeah! These are looking great. I think you nailed the loose, sketchy line quality you were going for. My only suggestion would be to keep your lines light until you're ready to finalize them; that way, when you go in with darker lines you can still keep a bit of that roughness in your line quality, but the lines will be bit more refined and communicate better. When you go in with multiple dark lines you risk losing clarity. The viewer may not be able to read your lines as well.

I think you did a pretty good job with lively lines in the first one. You definitely captured the flow and energy of the original. The anime girl looks very good was well but I feel like the lines aren't as lively in it. Overall though it is very impressive, good job!

Very nice lines in your penguin and hand drawings! Your lines tighten up a bit in your VR girl drawing and you lose some of that exploratory "sketchy" line quality that you have in your other drawings. It may be because you jumped into all the details in the gadgets too soon, which is totally understandable. I do like the changes you made to the design. My suggestion would be to try to get a bit looser in the beginning stages, trying to find the larger connections between parts rather than going line by line to make connections.

Nice work. I think you are spot on with trying to get your shoulder to do more of the work. Part of it is just building up the muscle memory. I like to take a big sheet of newsprint or other cheap paper and just draw circles all over it to warm up. As you gain control, you will find it easier to draw in those lines. Keep it up!

Your drawings look great. I think you are loose enough for sure. In fact I think you're to the next phase where, now that you are loose, you can start thinking about what lines you want to tighten up. This is when the real magic happens as you're starting to think about the design of everything. Subtle variations in line can really make a sketch come to life. I did a quick draw over of the penguin to show what I am talking about. Keep up the good work!

Same problem here. Solved it by setting boundaries first and than divide into smaller parts.

I found this project *the hand* very difficult. I couldn't get it right. The penguin was much easier for me. I tried to do it with more tapered lines than you did.