These are quite nice. I can see the looser lines in the hand and the penguin, that I would have loved to see in VR girl. Because she's so angular, it's easy to turn to structured straights and all, but her pose has a certain energy. I think in VR girl you've turned a little too much to contour and detail without the same impression of exploration that you had in the hand and penguin. Very nice work!

I love your reference sketches! Your lines have the sketchy quality that I think the assignment was looking for, and the final product is quite adorable!

Very nice improvement! I would practice two things: 1. Even tone - practice your shading and getting even tone throughout an area. I can see your pencil strokes a lot. I personally suffer from this and I find it's when I try to go to fast with the shading and I don't get enough coverage 2. Maximizing the use of your values. On your pear, I only see 4 values. This may be because your darkest halftone and your lightest shadow are too close in tone. try making sure that you've got a variety of tones to help describe your forms. In the critique video there are a few examples of this. Great job on this and keep up the good work.

In your first one I can see more sweeping lines, which is good. For VR girl, you've got a nice line quality, and it's very stiff. This assignment is more about exploration, so if you were to work on something, I'd suggest finding the energy and flow of the reference as opposed to replicating line work. Keep it up!

I think your self critique is spot on! While you've captured the contours really well, the gesture and energy is missing. Nice job self critiquing -- it's an underrated skill!

Nice work! as mentioned your pencil work is really nice. Would be careful with the middle tones (lightest shadow and darkest halftone) because they look very similar, especially in the provided reference. You've done a much better job distinguishing them in your own reference.

Yes! local value is rather hard. Very nice job here with putting down even tone. One thing to note, the dark shadow on the pear is darker than the shadow itself. I remember from the picture those tones are much closer (and also if you study shading, often times that are will have bounce light that makes it lighter than the shadow as well)

very nice job! I would probably work on the value selection, as I have a hard time differentiating some of your light values. Looks like you've almost used 4 tones instead of 5?

Nice job! you've done a great job of exploring the pose with your lines. Would love to see some of your reference sketches :)

Nice work! you did a really great job at putting down even tone!

I love this! I think that you've done a great job with your exploration to find the essence of the poses and the parts of the dinosaur. I would love to see the sketches for your final drawings! Those sketches while not as clean would show your thought process as you explored the concept. Otherwise, your finished drawings are gorgeous :)

This is a great attempt! On the penguin especially, I can see your searching lines and then your gradual refinement. I think that's the exact point of the assignment. I would love to see more of that in your VR girl. You've done a great job of it in the boots, but once you get into the chest, it's harder to see the flow and energy as well as exploration. Keep it up!

This is not a bad start. If you were to focus on one thing to improve, I would say you should work on distinguishing your values a little more. On the face, it's hard to distinguish lighter shadow values from darkest half tone from lightest halftone. I would split the drawing into light and shadow first and then find darker areas in each, taking care to keep the lightest shadow darker than the darkest light.

Your lines look great! I would make sure if you try again to try to capture the lines of energy through the forms. Think of it a bit like a sculpture. Find the rough forms so you capture the energy, then gradually refine the lines! Keep it up!

This is assignment is more about linework and energy than accurately copying contour. If you were to do this again, I'd lay down some light lines that try to find the forms and once you've got the rough forms, refine them and add more detail. Think of it like a sculpture. You get the larger rough mass then gradually refine to more and more kinds of detail. Imagine drawing the same image over and over, but starting with blurred to catch the larger forms, then more and more in focus to refine.

I think you've got the right idea so far! I would love to see more of your exploratory sketches and how you figured out the different shapes and parts! The line work on this sketch you've provided is very clean, and doesn't have the sketchy, exploratory quality this project is looking to find. Feel free to make looser lines as you find the right shapes!

Great attempt! On your hand I think you've started a little dark with your lines, which makes it hard to see your though process as you explore the drawing. I would suggest (re)watching the tapered line video as well as the "searching lines" video. On VR girl, there is more evidence of the searching. For example how you captured the rhythm across the shoulders connecting the arms. Looking forward to more!

You for sure have the sketchiness on the hand and the penguin! I think with the vr girl you're starting to get a little stiff and concerned with accuracy. She still has some long sweeping shapes that you can identify before getting into more accurate shapes.

These are adorable! Remember that this is a sketching exercise. Your lines feel a little too clean and wobbly. As you are doing your study, ask yourself what are the major shapes? what is the energy? You'll get drawings that are a little more messy but will capture the essence of the subject and then let you manipulate the essence to the pose you're looking for

Great job with the blocks of shading. You've also managed to keep your edges simple. Like you mentioned, I would make sure that you halftones are lighter than your shadow family. In a lot of other videos, Stan mentions "Your darkest lights are lighter than your lightest shadows". It may help for you to start with two tones -> what is in light and what is in shadow, and then in each family try to find the darker and lighter areas.