Starting with my first attempt of hierarchy of importance, at times I tried simplifying lines a bit to much for example the leg closest to the camera I simplified to a straight and an s curve even though there was more variety in the drawing Stan provided us with. Stan also mentioned to try having more variety in your lines to make you drawing feel more organic, I interpreted this as in my lines transitioning from thick to thin although I’m not sure if that’s what he meant. Lastly to make lines feel lighter they don’t necessarily have to be thinner in comparison to the surrounding lines. You can convey lighter lines through value as well and how I understood this is that it comes down to the contrast between your lines soft vs sharp, dark vs light and thick vs thin. For organising line weight bye light and shadow I didn’t quite understand what Stan mentioned about contrast between forms and light and shadow. And I’m generally unsure about both of my attempts after watching the demos if I clearly conveyed the ideas of organising line weight bye a hierarchy of importance and light and shadow. For me personally i think i didn’t exaggerate the the concepts or ideas enough. i also took different photos some i took with my my phone and the others i used a scanner it would be great if any one could let me know wich ones they prefer and find easier to critique. critiques are always welcome.

Wasn’t quite sure how to handle the light and shadow lines on the side of the rhino that is mostly in the light (this is before watching the demo) - at any rate here’s my first shot at this.

Level 2

Here we go

I suspect that I missed something with this exercise. Off to watch the demo for the “ah-ha” moment…

This was a fun exercise, not watching out for proportions :-). Never realized the difference it could make and invites to experiment with this.

my attempts left to right. The first I did on my own the second and third were with the demo.

living room. just experimentation with depth method

These were more difficult than expected. In both cases I wasn't entirely confident about where I placed the heavy lines. I also wasn't sure how light to make the light lines. I think I may have made them too light? I need to checkout the demos and critiques now.

I prefer my hierarchy of importance. In my light and shadow one, I feel like it's hard to actually see it as light and shadow.

I feel like I didnt do the shadows and light version very well but I did like my hierarchy of importance version. Ill watch the demo and see where I failed

Redid level 1 (printing + tracing), since after watching the demos and critique I was left feeling I kind of did it wrong. Old versions on the left, where for some reason I got into the mindset of using 3 very clearly distinct types of line _exclusively_, like even ignoring tapering the strokes and where one type might gradually change into another, and all other subtleties ... which of course would end up looking kind of cartoony and arbitrary. Much happier with the new versions, where I kind of just vibed with it.

I completed mine digitally, First did the trace then focused on the important shapes, then the direction of light.

Is it wrong??I just didn t felt like doing just The contour I m open to feedback and friendships for helping ouț!!!

What should I do if I don t have a printer?

Level 1. I think I overdid the eye area and nostril in the hierarchy of importance one, since I was trying to stick to three clear weights and thought that "conceptually" those bits were more important than the middle weight, but using the heaviest line emphasized them too much. Leaving it to just the eye itself would have probably been better. Might do the level 2 one using my own lines from observation at some point.

I don’t have a printer so I sketched out an initial drawing lightly and then went back over :)

Light source from below, and hierarchy of importance! Siu

Hi guys! Here are my attempts, level 1 with hierarchy of importance method, and level 2!