You did this assignment so much better than I did so anything I say is nitpicking but you did ask for feedback. In number 3, the orientation of the palm suggests that the ring finger should be a bit more foreshortened. I would also say the fat pad on the right side has a bit too much wrinkle in it. I would also say that in number five the fingers of the left hand are bend at a bit too much of an angle. These are tiny adjustments however. This was a great job and it makes me want to go back and watch all the hand videos again and give it another go myself.

continued with body design combining the gorilla and mountain sheep. It looks a bit like a satyr.

Everyone here has good suggestions. I do something to check to see how I did with the lay in. I make a copy of the original and draw an outline of the face, eyes mouth and nose. Then do the same to my drawing. Try to size them approximately the same and then compare. The outlines make it very easy to see how different my drawing is from the reference. Seeing what is wrong is the hardest part because sometimes everything is a little off. I find if I can get the lay in right, rendering is easy and usually successful.

First, thanks for being brave and posting here, especially when drawing from imagination. I don't know if I would be ready to do that myself. I am not an expert here at drawing the anatomy from reference or imagination, but here are my thoughts. I will also refer to your other post as well with the finished drawing. To begin with, your first sketch wasn't too bad for a basic sketch from imagination. You skipped hands and feet because I am guessing you are not confident with those yet. But as you refined the drawing, you pushed the pose further and further until you started to miss the perspective and the anatomy started to look off. My first bit of advice is to try and get in the pose you are trying to draw. I've even take a selfie to see how it looks when I am trying to do this. I think you will find you can't get into the pose you are trying to draw in the final picture. The body doesn't move that way. You could almost copy that first sketch however. As you refined your drawing, the right hip went way up while the legs basically stayed the same. The angle of the calf and heel is out of alignment with the thigh on the left and the whole leg out of alignment with the right glute. As you move up into the torso, there is an extreme twist and you need to make sure that twist is clearly shown. Right now I think the first sketch conveys that twist better than the final which would have an strong pinch on the side in order to twist that way. The difficulty here as described by Stan and other artists here is adding structure to your gesture without losing the gesture. I think your initial gesture had promise and then you tried to refine it and then some perspective and anatomy issues crept in. Try going back to that initial sketch and see if you can keep that gesture and refine the drawing from there. I'm new to this too however, so these are just observations. Other people may have different thoughts.

Great job. I do have a few observations. But first I should say that I think you are further along with your skills than I am so this is not a critique, just observations. I will focus on the female model drawing. I feel like you captured the gesture and proportions of your reference really well. There does appear to be a slight discrepancy along the right of the neck, but this is only noticeable because the rest of the figure is done so well. The main observation is that your half tones and shadows are very close together. For example, the right glute highlight and the left glute have the same tone but in the reference they are quite a bit different. The right arm also has very light tones and highlights going down the arm while the reference photo is darker. The affect on me as a viewer is that the lighting seems very bright and intense. There is also a really hard edge along the right glute between it and the leg. The only thing I will say regarding anatomy is that you took a lot of time to emphasize the anatomy in the torso but not in the leg so visually there is almost split between the detail of the upper and lower half of the drawing. The reference photo sort has this playing out too so I see how you got there. Again, this is not a critique because that may be exactly what you wanted. Overall, you did a great job and I am inspired to go do some more on my own. Thanks for sharing.

Looking back on the reference (I saw that you posted it earlier), I think you did a very good job matching it. Reading what Peter wrote is interesting because I feel like this is where artists can make decisions about the final piece. I was wondering what your thoughts are on what he wrote. I'm personally at the stage where doing as well as you did on this would make me super happy. But I was wondering if what peter had to say will influence what you do in the future. Thoughtful critiques are fascinating to read.

Hi Marco, I really like your stuff. So I was looking at your piece here and noticed that you are blocking out the face a little different than the loomis method. I think I am seeing lines blocking in the brow width and angle and then the back of the ear. What else are you doing?