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So recently I've joined the Don Bluth university. It's an intensive online course dedicated to teaching traditional animation techniques. The first six weeks will be dedicated to draftsmanship.

The first assignment was to take one of Preston Blair’s characters from his book (which is a free online resource [Link] ), and copy it exactly (without tracing). The second part of the assignment was to copy that same image, but flipped to face the opposite direction (illustrated above). Then we were told to create an expressionless head turn of the character from our newfound understanding of the form. Finally that head turn was scanned, cut out, and turned into a head model sheet of the dog.

My particular feedback was:
My negative shapes were close to Preston's image, but not exact. Also, that I didn't follow my guidelines exactly (taking too much artistic license). The character drifts further and further away from the blue guides (seen below). I think another a big pard was that I changed the character's eyeline as he rotates, which I was not supposed to do.
The exercise was to "see shapes and duplicate them exactly".
In future exercises I'll focus more on this rule, and following my guidelines much more closely

Description
So recently I've joined the Don Bluth university. It's an intensive online course dedicated to teaching traditional animation techniques. The first six weeks will be dedicated to draftsmanship.

The first assignment was to take one of Preston Blair’s characters from his book (which is a free online resource [Link] ), and copy it exactly (without tracing). The second part of the assignment was to copy that same image, but flipped to face the opposite direction (illustrated above). Then we were told to create an expressionless head turn of the character from our newfound understanding of the form. Finally that head turn was scanned, cut out, and turned into a head model sheet of the dog.

My particular feedback was:
My negative shapes were close to Preston's image, but not exact. Also, that I didn't follow my guidelines exactly (taking too much artistic license). The character drifts further and further away from the blue guides (seen below). I think another a big pard was that I changed the character's eyeline as he rotates, which I was not supposed to do.
The exercise was to "see shapes and duplicate them exactly".
In future exercises I'll focus more on this rule, and following my guidelines much more closely