I just realized I left the perspective guide layer visible in the file that I posted. Ooops!
Here is the clean version.

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Term 2 - Week 1
Not much to show, not too many assignments this week.

I gotta be honest. The pen tool was incredibly frustrating for me haha. I understand it can be a powerful tool to use but thankfully I don't see me needing to use it too much in the future. Also, it looks like a child made this.

I wasn't sure how much time we should spend on the self portrait so this was done fairly quickly. I wanna say less than an hour? Not too into the shading but I'll try a different method on the 2nd one at the end of the term.

Anynoodle, that's it for the first week!

Week 2 of Term 2 is almost done. I just need to de a few more of the daily studies to finish the sheets up, I'll post them when they are all complete. For now, here are the head copies.

I tried to pay extra attention to the artist's brushwork. Switched a lot between opacity and size jitter for the pen pressure on some of them. It was good practice for line hierarchy. There are some discrepancies in proportions but I usually noticed them too late (too lazy) to do much about it haha. As long at they don't look wonky I guess its fine, right?

Unrelated but ahhh...how do you change your username on this forum?

Hope everyone is doing well!

Oops, might need to open the image in a separate window to not see the microscopic version. I thought it would automatically prompt to enlarge the view but I guess it was just below the cutoff.

Thanks @Pattu_w and @lucretia.vastea! I appreciate the encouragement.
Sweet, I'll check it out. Thanks @ZekeDraws!

Here's the rest of week 2!

2 Min gestures

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It took me awhile to realize I was making the linework WAY too chonky. Not very satisfied with them but luckily I get another go at them next week.

Some head studies.
I took Esben Lash's "How to Draw the Head From Imagination" course right before this one so I got relatively comfortable with them. I noticed he and Marc have slightly different proportion mapping for the head though. I'm going to have to do a bunch of side-by-sides with the same poses to see how much it ends up effecting the final image.

That's it - thanks for stopping by!

Week 3...is finally done.
10 Min Gestures

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Shapes n' stuff

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Some heads

Character Heads

Portrait study

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And that's it!
I am realizing as I post this that I totally forgot to draw the individual features of the face. I'll try to cram that into this coming week.
So I realized this week I may be a little too ambitious with these assignments. It's not a terrible thing - I enjoy spending time on them. The problem is when I can't finish them all in a week I start stressing out haha. I guess I'll just have to be more mindful of that moving forward. Last thing I want to do is start falling behind which will trigger a lack of motivation. Gotta keep moving forward.

Thanks for stopping by and reading my ramblings!