Sketchbook as Object part 2: Blind contour drawing 2.3

Using these 4 images I had a go at drawing each without looking 

the first two pages are of my friends dog Gus and my own hand and the second set of pages were of my hamster Pip and a water bottle. Heres the pictures for reference:

Here are my attempts to blind contour draw...

Im actually quite suprised with the proportions, you can still kind of tell what they are. The dog face had a lot of features to include and they came out a little scary but the proportions arent even that bad. I got the eyes pretty in line with eachother it was just everything else that went a bit skewif. The hand was a lot easier in the sense of just keeping the pencil on the page and tracing the shape of the fingers. Again the proportions arent as bad as I expected you can still tell what it is.

I did it again on the next pages with Pip the hamster and the bottle.

The hamster turned out great I had fun guessing all the features even down to the toes and again pleasantly surprised how some especially the one on the bottom right looks. It's interesting to see how the smallest change in composition of a face or body can affect how the image looks, each skewed versions of pip all looked like different animals. Finally, the bottle wasn’t very challenging shape wise but detailed wise it was hard to capture everything like the grooves of the bottle or the writing on the label. I like how each version again looks like different stages of crushing a manipulating a bottle, some look crumpled or crushed.

I enjoyed this exercise as it was a challenge and after finishing a sketch it was a surprise to see how well I captured the object. I enjoy using this technique it takes a way the perfection element when replicating something, it was a more unpredictable way of drawing where I only could rely on my hand movements