The last few are the best. It looks like you’re getting the hang of rhythms. You balanced the contrapposto of the shoulders and hips nicely. Im not sure how you’re holding your pencil but holding it with the overhand grip could help with your long curved lines. or atleast holding it further back from the tip.

Question for those more experienced with perspective. Do you use anything to establish a scale between objects? Here I think either the bed is too small or the couch is too big - or probably both. I'm having a little trouble seeing the connection between the vanishing point and the horizon line - I get the concept of each, but not how they interact. Does that affect scale? tnx

I love the first one!

Haha the 2nd one look so proud of himself! Cool drawings! ;)

I have some experience with painting applications like Krita (and Photoshop a longer time ago). I think there might be a few general things we could say. First, it might depend on how often would you like to rework an area. For example, to tweak the form or silhouette, or to add detail, you might sometimes revisit a particular spot. If you're mostly expressing values through changes in pen pressure, you will be stacking up more and more opacity as you revisit areas. I think this can be particularly tricky if you just want to tweak a little spot but due to the increasing opacity you create darker streaks in the surrouding area. So this process might possibly require you to sometimes switch to a digital eraser to take away some darker values in areas where you wanted it to be lighter. By contrast, if you would set your brush to mostly be close to 100% opacity, then you could pick the values from a grayscale palette. Although I'm not familiar with this process in Procreate, most painting applications have color swatches with some presets like a "grays" palette going from completely black to white and various steps of gray inbetween. Initially, you can map parts of your drawing to certain gray-scale swatches. As you proceed, or while you rework an area, you can either color-pick from your drawing or select again an appropriate swatch from the palette. Of course you don't have to stick to the intially chosen value, you can revise this as you go. Also, if the brush opacity is not 100% then you will automatically be mixing gray values on the canvas, e.g., to create smoother gradations. Also possibly useful to note, is that the method that uses brush opacity close to 100% leads more quickly to filled drawings with no transparency "holes" in them. This may be useful for later steps in the process, perhaps related to coloring or overlaying the work on another background layer. If the values were only built up with just pen pressure changes (with say a white background layer underneath) then the layer on which you made the drawing will conceptually be like cellophane with graphite/ink, which will have the background color bleed through whenever that is changed later on as part of a coloring or polishing process. I hope it helped a bit by sharing my thoughts? Let me know what you think, I can learn as well

After watching the demo and seeing a few submissions, I tried a simpler, more cartoonish approach. The rooster feels like it's moving away from the reference and more towards minor league baseball mascot territory, but maybe that's the point of the exercise.