I erased often trying to get the portion correct. I liked this exercise because I was better able to see line and shapes.

A very surprising result!

Not done yet, but it is difficult.  I can definitely see how viewing the subject as a collection of shapes and how they relate to one another will help me draw a more accurate picture.  Of course the subject just needs to hold still long enough.  LOL!

patience

perdí mi punto de referencia para el resto del cuerpo

It was fun! And intriguing to see how it would turn out. I think I did a pretty decent job.

Wow, this experience definatly opend my eyes! It was very challenging trying to imagine how it was going to look when I was done, even though it was something I've drawn before. It's like all my experience had just disappeared! Still, the challenge was very entertaining! I found all the shapes worked with eachother to create such a beautiful masterpiece! I did not expect for this lesson to be that intresting but I was proven wrong! Thanks for the different way of looking at things, Liz!

One of lessons that stuck with me the most from high school art class was to draw what you see, not what you know the object to be. It was fun to revisit this idea! I got a bit impatient with some of the detail on the body and rushed through it, but was quite delighted when I turned my bird upside down (right side up?).

I was amazed at how good this sketch looks and how much fun I had with this exercise.

Looking at it again I need to practice more on the varying line thickness or darkness to add dimension to the work.

This was another fun exercise that I may repeat with a different image.

Wow, that did surprise me!

I found this exercise to be very enjoyable. I took a LOT of time with it and it came out way better than I thought it would. I used negative space a lot and some measuring and was very surprised and happy with the resulting image!

This was a very helpful exercise. It was difficult until I relaxed and paid attention to the shapes. I used the measurement technique to adjust my proportions. Also used the negative space technique. I was surprised at how well I did.

This is a very helpful exercise. I did a first "large masses" overview using a copy-not blue pencil, just to get my proportions in check, then went into details with an HB pencil. I am impressed by how this turns out when you turn it right side up!

Upside-down drawing was really fun! I view the subject as a combination of different lines that form different angles. I kind of drew the basic shape of the bird. And after I turned your drawing rightside up, I found it really looks like a bird (even though some of the shapes are not that accurate). This was a really fun exercise!

I was able to see spaces, lines and relationships between them, but I still found this activity difficult. It challenged  me. I felt limited. It was a very good practice that pushed me to work in a different way.

I'm a pretty confident in my skills but drawing the bird upside down was a challenge.  The results, however, were surprising and gratifying.

Here is what I drew. I started from the right because I’m left-handed and didn’t want to smudge my work too much. By ti I By the time got to the twig I was tired, so it’s the weakest part. It looks pretty good upside down, I think. At least it looks like a bird — whether or not it could fly is another question!

Not the greatest job but I tried my best.

I’ll be honest, I was very skeptical here - not with exercise (the opposite!) but with myself :D and also with having to draw from a line-based image of the bird instead of the actual bird. The drawing experience was the most frustrating of the whole course so far, but also, I have to admit, the one that left me most surprised with the result. Throughout the exercise I felt like I was drawing stiff, tentative lines, I felt awkward and stiff - or so I thought. But the more I drew the more I noticed how the line endings would join seamlessly when different parts of the image came together. That’s when I saw the potential of this exercise, even greater than I thought before I tried. So thank you!

It took me 2 hours, and quite a bit a erasing at times. I used  proportions, negative spacing, and relation of one form to the other. At times, I knew it was a bird, but at other times, it was more a geographic form exercice. I am quite pleased with the results. I learned quite a bit about beak insertion on the head.