Alright, here are all my drawings that I recorded from this first Basic Skills course. Some of them I have not taken pictures of. Over a year ago, I have already gone through the entire Art and Science of Drawing and Art and (most of) the Science of Figure Drawing courses.

This was from the first assignment, where I had to just make marks and not draw any particular thing. But when doing this, I had ideas for what I could make those shapes into, and I saw no reason not to resist the urge to make something out of them, so I did. I did do a few pages full of just marks and no particular things, but I didn't take pictures of them because they're not interesting.

All Assignments I Recorded - image 1 - student project

These are from the straight lines lesson. I did the challenge as well, and since I have a talent for subconsciously accurately measuring angles and proportions and all that, it was very easy and I think I drew it accurately. Although maybe you can find many mistakes since you're a master.

All Assignments I Recorded - image 2 - student project

All Assignments I Recorded - image 7 - student project

The free form lesson. In this assignment, I started with basic 2D shapes, but quickly shifted to 3D shapes because I find them more interesting. Then I started to try to draw scaly caps or whatever you call them because I like them, and a character I'm designing wears one.

All Assignments I Recorded - image 8 - student project

All Assignments I Recorded - image 9 - student project The Putting it All Together lesson. Two characters I'm designing wear boots. I'm bad at drawing boots so I decided to make that my subject. But because I couldn't find any references of the particular boots I wanted to draw, I just drew from imagination using the same process you taught in this lesson, and using the five questions. I found these questions to be particularly helpful. I tend to be impatient when drawing. I often just wanna draw something cool and I rush to finish it, which leads to bad drawing. But with patience and focus on the process, I'm able to make much better drawings. So anyway, I developed a simplification method for drawing boots, and this attempt was a success.
All Assignments I Recorded - image 14 - student project Then I drew my first prototype of one of the characters I'm designing. I've actually gone through the Becoming Creative course and am going through the Becoming an Artist course. The project I selected was a comic, so I'm very slowly going through that course, and because of this slow rate, I'm also going through The Art and Science of Drawing. In the Becoming an Artist course, I'm currently at the Prototyping lesson. So anyway, I drew my first prototype of one of the characters I'm designing, and throughout the process, I asked myself those five questions. These five questions are seriously so helpful. There have been times where I look at a reference and don't know how to simplify it no matter how I think about it. But as soon as I start going through these questions, it becomes a lot more clearer. After going through these courses the first time, I have lost touch with many fundamental ideas and tools, so I'm excited to relearn them and retain them.
All Assignments I Recorded - image 15 - student project

Then I decided to draw from a reference of a cheetah. But as I was drawing, I decided to deviate from the reference a bit and make him a little bit anthropomorphic.
All Assignments I Recorded - image 16 - student project

This course has been amazing. I relearned so much of what I've forgotten the first time going through it, and have even learned new things. Before studying your courses, I had been drawing for four years, with barely any concept at all of the fundamentals. The rate of my improvement was extremely slow too. But when I went through TAASOD and TAASOFD series for the first time, my skill shot up exponentially. I absolutely love your teaching style and approach so much. It's honestly rare to find someone not only this passionate about teaching, but also someone who does the best they possibly can to make sure their students understand everything you're teaching, and how to do it. It's even more rare to find a teacher with such an emphasis on the fundamentals. I believe this is THE right way to teach anything. I love how you barely ever teach how to draw one particular thing, but instead give people the tools and techniques to draw WHAT EVER they want. Before studying these courses, I relied heavily on guesswork because I thought that was the only way. But you taught me how to KNOW what I'm doing when I'm drawing. Every time I see an artist who's struggling due to an obvious lack of knowledge of the fundamentals, I take every opportunity to tell them about these courses and about what an amazing teacher you are, so that they can receive the immense help I did. I'm genuinely so excited to go through these again and see how much more I'll improve. Thank you so, so much.

Oh, really quick, I have a question about submitting projects. I don't fully understand how this works yet.

I can only submit one project per course. So let's say I do one lesson and one project, and submit my project, and you see it and evaluate it and give feedback. After I've done the next assignment, how do I submit that project? Do I edit my project and add in what I've drawn?? Will you be notified of that edit so that you can evaluate how I've done and give feedback?

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