Both of these are pre demo. Again, thank you for any feedback

Ignoring the proportions, i thought I did well with some of the gestures on this one. Thanks for any and all feedback!

I really tried to stick to the assignment. But I probably rushed it. I was trying to get this done because I had limited time and wanted to do an exercise for the day. I want to try to do this every day. Anyway I have mixed feelings about the results. But it's probably what I should expect at this stage. I'm not mad at it, but I hope to practice lines a lot more.

Level 2 before watching solution - I struggle with confident lines while sketching so much

This is the befor watching any of the demos, I noticed I keep searching the lines and end up with lots to clean up afterwards.

I'm glad you're asking us to submit our work. It is helping me get over my fear of showing it to the world. Cool project! I like the boots and even the laces although a bit tricky.

First time sharing my assignments! getting over the nerves to publicly display what’s in the sketchbook. Definitely went really fast doing the snail and got frustrated, but took more time doing the boots. Impatience and frustration definitely still show in the laces and the lower right boot tip. Taming impatience and slowing down are things I’m working on in my art journey.

Level 2 Camel - Really need to work on more confident line work and proportions.

I was feeling really good about the boots until I got to the laces.

I think I may have misunderstood the assignment

Overall, this went well. I think I still got caught up in some of the details and it could have been simplified further. Tell me what you think!

The laces and the skull felt ...hard to simplify 😮‍💨. Do comment on what you feel like i should improve on. Thankyou

This is my snail! I did it a while ago but haven't had time to post. I really liked this lesson because I think I learned some from it!

Level 1: A question! I think I learned how to do proportions by pulling lines out of chicken scratch (if you can see the light blue and red underneath). I can’t seem to do proportions very well without that - would you advise forgetting about proportions and just focus on doing cleaner lines for now? Or keep pulling them out of the ghosted bad lines and get faster? ty so much!!

Went for both levels on this and tried to really focus on where to place CSI lines. Also tried to stay away from adding details (like the boot laces) that could potentially distract from simplifying. I also thought I had left myself enough real estate on the page for each drawing, but the skull and snail ended up having small areas cut off.

i found this tough. I struggled to keep the proportions in check

Level 1 complete. Snail 1 - I think the line work could be a bit more stylised and the overall shape could be proportioned better - but it's OK. Shoe 1 - maybe needed to simplify it down a little bit because without measuring and making the proportions correct the shoelaces get to be a bit of a nightmare - I'm interested to see the demo's and critiques to see where I can and how to attack an image like this next time. Overall the likeness is still there and some of the lines I can see the potential to execute with more finesse. Not particularly pleased with the result but I'm learning a lot. Looking forwarded to digging into level 2.

I found this assignment to be quite the challenge. I will have nightmares about shoelaces and the spinal cord vertebrae columns. That said, I think having a difficult time is a good thing, if it's challenging then it means more experience is gained. These took me quite a long time to make. It was around 3 and a half hours for the boots and snail and 3 hours for the camel and skeleton. Any feedback is appreciated. For anyone using Clip Studio paint and is interested, I figured out how to create a .gif timelapse from the Clip Studio Paint .mp4 timelapse export. you might have to clip "Open Original" in order to see it better. So I like looking at timelapses as it's a good way to see how one goes about drawing something. It would be interesting to see other peoples timelapses. For those who have Clip Studio Paint, here are instructions to how I do it: (If you don't have ffmpeg installed and working then this won't work, it's a useful free command line tool) 1. Within Clip Studio Paint make sure your instance is recording timelapse. You can do this by going to the top left bar and File -> Timelapse -> Export Timelapse, then choose the settings you like, I use 60 seconds but you can make it much longer. 2. Locate your .mp4 file. Open the folder containing the .mp4 file you exported from Clip Studio Paint. 3. Open a terminal in the folder. Right-click in an empty space in the folder and select "Open in Terminal." 4. Run the ffmpeg command. In the terminal, type the following command: ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "fps=15,scale=1280:-1:flags=lanczos" -c:v gif output.gif (Make sure to change the input.mp4 name and also the scale= needs to change if it exports large than 1MB you can't upload. I recommend either 1024, or 960, you just have to play around with it to get the size you need). Also increase fps makes file size a bit larger. 10-20 is best. 5. Replace input.mp4 in the command with the name of your .mp4 file and output.gif with the desired name for your GIF. 6. Check the output. Once the command finishes, your new GIF (output.gif) will appear in the same folder as the .mp4 file. Make sure it's under 1MB in size.

I liked this exercise actually, each took 20 minutes .