(Note: These are in reverse order.)

Done! On to the next two-week course in the workshop. I also joined Marie-Noelle's Patreon so I can keep getting content from her. This class has been immensely helpful for me.

Day 14. My texture inspiration was a crinkly leaf of lettuce. I wanted to do something abstract that only vaguely resembled the leaf and captured its interesting texture, without worrying about copying its actual values or shading. Here's where it came out. (Inspiration photo below.)

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Day 13. Take 2: I borrowed elements of my Metamorphosis 2 and Cloudwatching drawings. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Day 12. Structure: I decided I wanted to do something inspired by an orange sweet potato that sprouted in my panty, but to make it abstract and highlight its structural aspects, both on the potato and the reaching sprouts. The result is ok but not 100% what I was going for. But - I learned some useful things and I know what I would change if I tried again. (This is ink pen, ink brush and wash, and watercolor.)

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Day 11. Transformation: Well today I was feeling agitated after receiving some disappointing news, which I think influenced how I did my project. This was formerly the first Metamorphosis drawing, which I liked parts of but didn't like as a whole. I decided to turn it into something with a lot of abstract color. But, the top half just didn't come together and seemed incongruous with the bottom, so I grabbed scissors and cut off the top half. I then glued the bottom back onto a clean white page for contrast. Daily challenge - June 2021 workshop - image 5 - student project

Day 10. Thread: I love drawing thread-like things for some reason, so I appreciated today's theme. I ended up doing tiny ink stick figures again, but this time as aerial hoop gymnasts.

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Day 9. Flat: So I spend hundreds of hours trying to learn to not draw things flat, and she says "Draw something to look flat." ;-) I did make a list of attributes I think make something look flatter: even sizing, even spacing, even values, monotone colors. These flowers are pretty flat, but I see that some of the tips look a little bit curled, just by the nature of the ink lines converging.

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Day 8. Colors: Today, the colors of opals. Colored pencil over ink wash.

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Day 7. Creature crowd. Well, I had super-low energy today and wasn't sure I'd pull this off, but I managed to scribble out a little gathering of hairy cyclopses (Cyclopes). Also, I just want to point out that WE'RE HALF WAY THROUGH!

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Day 6. Metamorphosis, fill the page: I'm not used to filling the page, so this was daunting. I decided to use a brush pen to help speed things along. The imagery is inspired by a Malabar spinach cutting I currently have in water with a few other pieces of plants (lower part of drawing). It's starting to root and will become (hopefully) a full plant (upper part of the drawing). This piece has some visual imbalance, but I like parts of it and will keep experimenting with those ideas.

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Day 5. Metamorphosis, with white space: Yikes, this prompt was really hard for me. I ended up drawing something with a humanoid, and I don't really know how to draw humanoids. Anyway, this is my attempt to show a mermaid/fish-person sort of forming from the top of a jellyfish-like creature. The mermaid is slumped over forward as the fish is swimming upward.

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Day 4. Shake it up: For a high-energy drawing I pulled out my oil pastels and used high-energy colors while trying to focus on value. (I'm happy to report this didn't leave a colored stamp of a bear on my scanner bed, because I wasn't sure how that was going to go down.)

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Day 3. Slow: Just some houseplant leaves. I didn't think my usual Copic fine liners would work well for slow outlines, so I used a Paper Mate Flair pen for those instead. I did have to remind myself to slow down several times until I got the hang of it.

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Day 2. Cloudwatching: This was challenging because my shape didn't really look like anything to me, except finally this semi-abstracted clawed rabbit carrying an egg. Daily challenge - June 2021 workshop - image 14 - student project

Day 1. Journey: Somehow this came to mind, people entering a giant allium bulb and setting off on an adventure. (Completely not trying to rip-off Marie-Noelle's plant roots, btw, but flowing roots seemed appropriate here.) I set out to make the leaves a bit "artistic" but then had some challenges shading. Oh well - on to the next one! Daily challenge - June 2021 workshop - image 15 - student project

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