The Drawing Academy - Summer Course in Classical Drawing Pt. 1

In the beginning of July I went on a trip to the North of Jutland and took a week-long course in classical drawing, hosted by The Animation Workshop/The Drawing Academy, which is a school/university for mainly animators. It was a great decision to do that, I learned a TON, met a lot of inspiring and ambitious people and just had an awesome time in general... Every day there were 6 hours teaching/drawing (mostly life drawing/"Croquis" as the Danes say, with poses between 10 seconds to around 2 1/2 hours). When I first got there I was pretty bummed out about my own abilities, seeing how damn awesome everyone around me was at drawing :-), but I chose to use that feeling to get even more encouraged/eager and it worked! Ha! I think I made a lot of progress in those 7 days, not just in drawing, but also in my general attitude and in sorting out my life goals and "stuff"...
I definitely want to keep practising (a lot more than I do - which is basically nothing - argh!) and learn to draw better... It's only the first step on a looong way I took here - but I'm very glad I took it!!
Here are some of the long-time studies, I'll post some sketches and many photos I took another time.
The drawings are in chronological order. We did almost every day one, but the very first ones are just too shitty to share, hehe (anyway I'll keep them for myself to remind me where I started and how fast it can go if I just keep practising enough).
I THINK I can see a little progress along the way, thanks to the many helpful comments and people around.

Our models were called Asger and Emilie and were really sweet people and rad artists themselves...

P.s.: The paper's way too big for my scanner :-(

Danskuddannelse

Since I'm spending some time in a classroom again and listening to a person teaching me things, I also experience that this forces a very strong urge within me that I remember from being in school - I start to doodle the most random things without thinking the tiniest bit about what I'm actually doing there. It's an almost completely subconscious mechanism that apparently helps me to focus on the material I'm listening to. I think a lot of people know that phenomenon.

I photographed absolutely all of the scribbles I made so far, no matter how small, and wanted to assemble them in some kind of digital collage because I like the trashy randomness my brain produces without forcing it in some kind of direction and without judging the outcome at all. I haven't gotten far with that, maybe I'll figure something out at some point. But I still want to collect them here.
Oh, and there are also some pretty damn awesome pictures from the small freaked-out, danish stories in the book 'Skolegade'.