It was fun and I was surprised by the final outcome.

This lesson was fun.  Especially when it was time to turn the bird right side up and see how the drawing turned out.  The body of the bird was the most challenging.  I was pretty absorbed in this lesson.  

I definitely had to slow down and concentrate.  This was one of the best drawing exercises I've ever down.

For whatever reason I lost my patience with the slow methodical method less than a minute in so just did a quick copy and really enjoyed it. He probably wouldn't have hawk talons if I'd gone a bit slower...!

The activity drawing upside down was both difficult and fun. It most definitely required slow short strokes and frequent looking at the picture as I attempted the assignment. It was a lot to incorporate proportion and negative space while drawing some of the more complicated and intricate parts of the bird and stock.It did take some time and erasing as I went along.

I was really surprised how well mine turned out. I have to admit, I got a little frustrated with the fiddly chest markings and kind of winged it (no pun intended), but everything else I strove to do by observing the shapes, negative space, relationship of the shapes, etc. and it worked! I also used the proportion tricks taught in a previous lesson.

I enjoyed this assignment as it felt counter intuitive to draw upside down, in fact it caused me to draw slower. I for a lot of it drew without looking at my drawing to help my self see more details and I was pleased with the outcome! When I started drawing it started as a collective of shapes that became more and once it did it was very rewarding.

I had a heck of a time with the negative space drawing - gave up.   However, I did use the proportion info when doing this one upside down.   It didn't look great upside down but right side up = OK.   Maybe I'll try the negative drawing using the proportion idea.   The feet really surprised me.

My sparrow.

I was amazed at how accurate my drawing turned out.  It was fun, but several times I felt like I was getting lost.  I tried to keep myself from viewing it as a bird and kept going back to just drawing the shapes.

It was both fun, with some difficult parts, especially when lots of lines and shapes came together.  The upside-down drawing definitely helped with abstracting the relationships between the shapes, rather than drawing from preconceived ideas of what the subject should look like.

Upside down drawing was fun. This was my first time drawing with a mechanical pencil. 

This was a fun exercise.  When I look at all the Song Sparrows we all drew, I enjoyed the fact that each has its own character and personality.

Like Dorothy below, the chest markings confused me, but they ended up giving the bird some depth. I also didn't trust the length of the tail or the shape of the eye, but those turned out about right too. I used negative space often to help place the line. This exercise enlightened me!

I found the chest pattern markings the hardest to focus on as without the dark and light contrast,I kept getting lost in the pattern. I do think this is a good exercise for proportion help.

Challenging but excellent exercise.  Not because of the upside down image, but most difficult part was inserting the shapes inside bird while considering size, shapes and area allowed.  Also had some issues with pencil following shapes over paper in journal.

challenging.  head and body proportions were of.  Body to fat.

This took awhile, and I really felt like I had blown the proportions out incorrectly for awhile,  but I thought it looked pretty good in the end.

I did it - yeah!!! it is amazing - I remember my grandson drawing upside down when he was really little, he turned out to be a cartoonist. This is the first time I have tried something like this. I thought it was fun.

It took me a long time to draw but it was a great exercise.  The most difficult part for me was the body with all the different small shapes and trying to fit them into a larger space.  I tried to cram all the tiny shapes in.

Trying again.great challenge!