This one was very hard. Not so much the simplifacation of form. But the structure/perspective with the cross contoure when i need to decide from Wich direction I see the form. Especially on the limbs.i wanted to make the knees as boxes but that made me very confused. I got som imposible connectioms where i saw the upper leg from below (cause it going forward) and i saw the knee from abow. So I made blobs instead. But i could probably have solved it with a gap between leg and knee. Or make the the as to boxes angled differently anyhow. Here is my horse :)

I struggled with the arms and legs connecting to the body, it was hard for me to identify those connecting shapes.

Definitely out of my comfort zone but I am inspired by everyone here.

Here's my assignment for this class. Dunno how I did, but I did it.

Do u guys have any feedback about those drawings? Especially in forming them 😔🙏🏻

Tricky. Lapsing more into gesture than structure, I definetly need more constraints and maybe more practice with basic shapes.

Here are my attempts for the assignment, I chose some pretty dynamic poses for my horses and one of the cats. My question is, would I have been better off simplifying some my forms even more, such as the torsos of the animals. I didn’t end up making them straight cylinders, but still tried to give them some 3 dimensional form.

Here are my attempts for this assignment. Did some warm ups of boxes and cylinders than the animals. I wasn’t happy with the eagle one but decided to show it anyway. @Rachel Dawn Owens I have a question, It felt more natural for me to construct forms using boxes and cylinder's compared to beans and gesture. is that normal part of the learning process like a sort of stepping stone? or could this indicate that I naturally lean more toward construction based thinking vs gesture first approaches? just curious if this is something others experience too, or if it might be a sign of my drawing instincts leaning a certain way? Thanks so much in advance! You’re the best. 😊

Animal structures newest to oldest. The three newest were after the critique. I felt like I started to get it more when I studied one animal, horses, then lizards.

Here is my structure assignment. I felt like I was able to mix gesture and structure enough to create something that showed improvement.

I followed the suggestion of @Rachel Dawn Owens to go larger when studying the basic forms in a figure. I agree. I felt a lot more comfortable having more room to judge proportions and shapes. Of course, daily gesture practice has been helping too. I did start down a couple of sideroads I should have avoided, but the angry locals chased me back to the main highways.

This time I looked for the basic structure of the figure with basic forms more closely conforming to the forms of the figure.

Here's another attempt at finding the basic forms on top of gesture.

Here's another untimed attempt at finding the basic forms in the figure.

Here are my first attempts at finding the basic forms in the figure.