Hey persona937, The thing about your painting that jumps out immediately, is your use of edges. All the edges in your painting are hard and crisp. We need a variety of edges in our painting because it helps us lead the viewers eye around our image the way we want. Hard, crisp edges are saved for our center of interest because they draw our eye. By contrast, soft and lost edges suppress less important areas of our painting. They also help sell the idea of depth. By having all the edges the same in your painting, it makes it look flat, almost like the elements are "stickers" placed on the canvas. I hope this helps you going forward :)

my attempt

Hello! it has an ok look but i have to say, it has some flawed proportions and construction. So i wouldnt shade it at all. The shading youve done looks ok but i would watch secrets of shading by Steven Zapata before doing more rendering. Overall, if i were you i would do this drawing again with more attention on the proportions of the body. Its not terribly wrong so not a big deal!

this is my attempt. any critique would be appreciated

my practice

I have a question about proportional measuring. When you do the head length measuring technique, how do you remember which proportion goes with what in the figure when you progress with the drawing? Do i just take a mental note, go for it and make mistakes to correct it later, or is it okay to mark the image every time to remember?

hi, i would like some feedback. thanks!

could anyone help me if there is a sense of balance in the poses? thank you! also for the first drawing, i tried to make the pose different on the left arm so I can practice doing stuff from imagination.

my attempts