Drawing Exercises

In this post, I've uploaded some of my drawing exercises we did in Drawing Foundations. Every 5 hour class starts with about half and hour of drawing something like a leaf or a stick, to get us warmed up. The professor, David Noyes, is very specific about how the object is to be drawn. If there is too much emphasis on observation and technical skill, he says it is a good drawing but not anything special. He wants the hand of the artist to be visible. At the same time, if the line is too loose, he says the drawing becomes more about the artist than it is about the object. He wants something very specific in the middle of the two extremes. The exercise drawings I have posted were successful drawings I did in class that David liked.