Took another crack at “Nicolai”. First did this over a year ago in the summer, I believe. Graphite 2h and 2B and white chalk on toned gray strathmore 400 paper.

I normally don't enter contests, but this looked fun, I had some time so I gave it a go.

My assignment! This was fun :)

Here the first two of the assignment. I tried to fit the bones into a tracing of the model, because I thought it is easier because of the landmarks. It's not... Will work on the other poses, hopefully get more insight that way.

How'd I do? Also how do you know where to place the oval if you're looking up at the head? I struggled with that. Might be worth mentioning I haven't moved past the first video yet

Hey, I finished the course and it was great. I watched every Lesson and drew 10 features after each lesson. I mostly used Conté and Faber-Castel Pastel pencils. For some, I used Conté Pierre-Noire but after sharpening it once, it broke and crumbled till the end. I heard that Conté has some quality issues sometimes, anybody else with that issue? I really like the smoothness and darkness of Pierre Noire. This is the final portrait (in Charcoal). I know the angle of the mouth is slightly off and the left eye is too big. I'd really appreciate some further Feedback.

Congratulations to all winners, and specially to the guy who won the longest wiener... ... dog award!

Hi, i got a new upgrade on my small screenless tab now im on screen display which is sick. totally paid off my hardwork. now this is my output on the assignment. i did a little freehand on skelly and was happy about it. then again i'm having trouble about proportions especially pelvis and ribcages. what do you think? would love some critiques. thank you so muchhhhh!!!!

Hello there  I was hoping I could get some feedback and critique on my studies. Also I'm very sorry about the messy lines. Thanks!

Are we supposed to be posting our assignments here and if so am I doing these right?

hi guys, did some drawings of the ribcage from 3d model. Give me some critiques please

my attempt at the assignment. First image is from 3d model, second one is from imagination and third is the second one corrected by looking at 3d model.

Hello all, Any feedback is much appreciated. Sometimes I really fail to see my shortcomings.

first part, a lot of mistakes.

Hey, Kevin Thanks for sharing your comic. One problem that a lot of comic book authors have is they never share work. Afraid of the criticism, they wait until they write the next Watchmen or Akira to show something to others. The irony is without feedback you don't grow so is very unlikely a groundbreaking story will appear in this conditions. So congratulations on taking the first time. Whatever I say, don't take it personally. Remember, I'm criticizing your work, not you. I don't think I can evaluate all your questions separately so I will answer them all at once Whenever your doing a story without balloons your images have to do the heavy lifting. they have to make it clear where we are, who are the characters and what are they doing. What you show and what you don't have weight telling story. In general, your story doesn't give enough visual information and the narrative is very confusing. That undermines the understanding of the history Let's review your story panel by panel together and I'll point what I think it's problematic and try pointing directions you can take. Page 1 Panel 1: You said that it's the first time she's being there. But Someone already has her name tag on the door and someone wrote that's she's the best fashionista? Did she wrote that? Did her roommate wrote that? Did someone wrote that ironically? Also the name tag is almost the same width as the door. This is very forced exposition. Panel 2: Here you lost me a little. You said that this is a dorm, but this it more like an apartment. Panel 3: It's ok but kinda unnecessary. Normally after turning on the light, the next panel needs to reveal information that's in the dark. Panel 4 - 6: This is very problematic. You rapidly changed camera angles creating a disorienting feeling and a sense of urgency. The way you did, it looks like she HAS to go that room. Also, dude numbered door in the inside? Panel 7-8 here the drawing is not communicating well. I understand that she knocked and the door was unlocked but the image don't show it well Panel 9: This is kinda weird. You go to a strange place and the first thing you do is go through your roommate stuff? Is she supposed to be the heroine of this story or a bratty entitled teenager? Page 2 Continuity errors from panel 1-3. She changes direction from one panel to another, clothes changes from one panel to another and then color scheme of the character changes inexplicably (I thought at first that it was her roommate). panel 4: The hand turning on the light is kinda creating a weird panel because it looks over sized in the wall but rest is ok and so is panel 5 Panel 6: I didn't understand if she was calling her roommate's ugly or her roommate herself. Also compared to the protagonist's clothes I didn't feel a gap in style that big to consider her roommate's clothes horrible. In fact they look very on par So, ok. We have a lot of problems on location on this page but also who is our protagonist? Did you noticed that it's the first page and we didn't see the face of our girl? Isn't she a fashionista, then why is she using a generic dress? How do I know for sure that she is a student goes for the first time at a dorm and not someone returning from a trip? Writing comics is a constant job of asking why. Characters never do stuff just because. And even though you're not going to put everything you know about them on the story you better have all of their background on your head. OK. Suggestions. First: Do a thorough visual research. Find how dorms look like, the bedrooms, the corridors, etc, find pictures of fashionable girls. Clothes, accessories. Read interviews, discover what they like, find reference on those if you think you can enrich her character... just with the character design you're telling the viewer who the character is. Don't tell me your character is a fashionista, show me she is. No matter which kind of comic book you do, reference is always primordial. Now let's work on your narrative. First of all start by showing your character. Let her face be visible. Show her arriving in the dorms, show the environment. show her reactions to her surroundings while she searches her room (it's important to know who the character is).Show her arriving in her room but cut panels like 4-6. If you don't need extreme angles, don't use it. Now, Instead of going to a living room, have her open the door and arrive directly on the shared bedroom. Dorms normally are just bedrooms and no living rooms (look up floor plans, sometimes you don't even have a window). Instead of her breaking her roommate's room have her just see a hint of the clothes under the bed. And when she goes checks out she find the horror. She's not being invasive, she's just curious about something she saw. You can even use it as a tease. She can find something that she doesn't understand what it is and them her roommate shows up using something really atrocious missing the part that she found. The clothes are essential to your story to works. You really need to sell the difference. Draw something very fashionable encountering something out of fashion. I probably forgot a lot of stuff, but written critiques are tiring to write. If one day this site has voice chat ask me again about thins and I probably give you a more complete and more understandable answer. But until there this is all I have to say. Good luck and Best regards

Heres my work for the first two images. The leftmost drawing is my first attempt, by myself. The middle drawing is done while looking at Stan's answers. The rightmost drawing is my last attempt done by myself again. How did i do?

Next try. I am getting better in keeping the head shape.