For this project, I did master's studies of Hirohiko Araki (Author of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) and Eliza Ivanova. The reference for the Araki study came from one of his art books, Hirohiko Araki's World: JoJo6251. Eliza's was from one of her Instagram posts. These artists are some that I admire and I love their work. This project was really fun and I aim to do more in the future.

I must say that learning from the masters is an honest way to know where you are as an upcoming artist because it really does EXPOSE where you are in the journey. I did my master studies after Dave Malan, Soey Milk, and Glen Keane. 1. Dave Malan: This master study was definitely outside of my comfort zone because it forced me to be loosen up and be "less careful" with my lines and construct them with confidence, while emulating the different line variations Dave used. 2. Soey Milk: This studies was more within my comfort zone. In this specific study, Soey Milk uses clean lines, which is what I'm naturally used to. I am excited with how this one turned out. 3. Glen Keane: Now this was the most challenging to study because Glen executed this with a balance of a loose/searching lines and absolute confidence, which was tricky to emulate. I found a Youtube video of him talking through his process and decision making while constructing his lines and it was a bit intimidating. I decided to upload my first attempt to show how much I struggled and I know the second attempt can still be improved on Overall, this master study assignment was a challenging and fun project and will definitely incorporate that into my practice at least every month. I welcome any feedback/critiques :)

Studied Jeff watts

Good morning, Although I feel I need to enjoy working with lines more and its fun, I lost track of where I place of where I've posted. So I'm posting my first study of Dave Malan. I wasn't quite sure why he was using darker, softer, thicker or thinner lines. But as I drew it I tried to understand why he chose them. Any feedback as to why to help me understand would be appreciated. I thought the darker and thicker areas he wanted more attention to and the lighter less emphasis and more carefree lightness. As I was drawing I couldn't help but think he was in the moment of drawing passion. Challenging to emualte.

Just copied it looks ugly

This is my first master study and i did it on Glen keanes sketch of Tarzan. I really enjoy this project and am planning to do way more of these studies. Feedback always welcome :).

Roger Cruz study on Bishop from X-Men

I studied John Ripa for this project. His line quality is hard to replicate for me right now. Overall, this was challenging but fun!

I chose Glen Keane, Frank Frazetta and Karl Kopinski. I don't think I got too close to the originals, but it was fun trying and it's really interesting how much I subconsciously changed my approach based on whom I was studying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ftHVPJJ26I Maybe someone can help me out here, I am studying Glen Keane. He has a wide range of lines, light dark, soft and hard, think and thin. I do not understand how he can get such a variety of thick-to-thin and soft-to-hard edges in one line... especially with the tripod grip. in the video i linked I can see him actively drawing ( I was looking to see if i could find a video of him drawing to see how he held the pencil, to my surprise it was a tripod, which is MUCH more comfort to me) but I cannot figure out how he is doing it. he starts drawing at the 510 min mark TYIA!! here is another https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSbkn6mCfXE

Couple of master studies from Dave Malan, Bryce kho and one from the spidervers. I feel like the Danny deVito (I couldn't find the reference) is probably better over all, I know the task is about line weight and I feel I got that okay in both but I find it so hard to look past the proportion and how...off John snow looks. The dragon was very fun to do. I tried using ink to do the line work at I think it was quiet good. Definitely need more practice inking though I'd love some feedback or some critique.

I did a study of Jeff Watts, I really enjoyed this but I got lost a lot. and not all the same deatails are in this. I cut off bits of his hair and screwed up the ear big time. But all in all, I'm proud, and I enjoyed doing it. I'm gonna do it again.

My first attempt at this! Studied Shiyoon Kim’s work on Mile’s mother on into the spider verse. I am shocked, I draw a lot from reference (imagination drawing is hard for me and even harder when no prompt lol working on it though) I thought it would be pretty much that, but I’m looking at the result and I’m blown away by the fact that … these aren’t my lines! IMO they’re crudely drawn Shiyoon Kim’s lines but not mine. When I draw references, even if I think i did a good job.. those are still my lines. Such a weird feeling to see not my lines lol I’ve said not my lines so often I feel it’s become confusing lol

I did my line master study on Asia Ladowska and dbzs Kid buu. Not to sure also if I did the assignment right but i definitely see the improvement dramatically by studying lines.

My master studies is about Berserk's Kentaro Miura. I din't draw exactly every hair, but I tried to get the feeling of his lines.

Ok so this is embarassing.. I quit for about a year and a half because of this assignment. I struggle with perfectionism and undertaking a drawing from Eliza Ivanova/Eleeza is no joke. Absolutely love her work but trying to draw similar lines to her gave me so much anxiety. This master study brought me to my knees! After a year and a half I have managed to push through the discomfort and overcome the fear. I know I haven't got her line quality down pat but its hard to replicate the line weight when drawing with the ipad.

Did the master studies on Glen Keane's work. I was confused about which part to study, eventually went for a complete study of his work. I think I didn't attempted the project correctly, as I continuously found myself making corrections for a specific line to be of the same weight as in the original work which led to unconfident lines. Varying line weight while making a confident line is still an issue for me to improve i think. Any advice would be highly welcomed.

Focused on drawing Goku & Bulma in this master study. I love Akira Toriyama’s art style from the beginning half of his career where he drew using more of a caricature style. The reference image is from an anthology collection of Toriyama’s artwork through the Dragon Ball series. Link to book: https://a.co/d/dZnt2WJ

It's been a month since my first study that I did of a Jeff Watts portrait, I could finally get the time back to do one again, this time I decided to do the skull to keep things "simple". Since in the demo Stan used a charcoal pencil I also tried using it for the first time but... well, needless to say, I hope I get better at it :D To be honest the problem was largely the fact that I had no idea how to use this tool or how to keep it sharp, so I'll have to watch the old video about it again. The final result turned out to be better than I thought it would be while in the middle... but I had to totally forego caring about anything relating to shapes or relations to TRY to get lines like Jeff. Of course I mostly didn't succeed (I had to resort to a lot of eraser tricks), but at least I know now what to practice. Charcoal pencil otherwise is actually pretty fun! Just need to get used to it.