Nice! Good sense of structure and form and you seem to be well aware of origins and insertions. I also find the shading to reveal the forms well. - In #2, it would have been nice if the abs conformed more the ribcage on her left side (our right). You captured the tonal shift at the thoracic arch, so the shading is good, but the underlying structure and placement of the shapes is what causes the flatness. - In #3, I really like how you captured the twist (ribcage pointing more to the right.) Though, I think the drawing could have been even stronger if you kept simpler forms in mind; the forms in your drawing feel a bit soft as if they were lacking some underlying structure. - In #4 and #7 I think there is room to show more compression. Shading tip: Before filling in tone I think I would recommend you to first outline shade and shadow with line. This allows you to first focus on strong design and a clear seperation of light and shadow. The line can vary in softness; soft for core shadows (the slower the transition (rounder and larger forms) the softer the line) and sharp lines for cast shadow edges and end of forms. With this alone you'll already get a feeling of form. I learned this from Joseph Todorovitch's course From Painting To Canvas on New Master's Academy ( https://www.nma.art/courses/from-paper-to-canvas ). Hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!

Hi @unpayedintern123, nice studies! I like how you really dissect the figure in order to understand the anatomy. - It would be nice if you showed the forms of the breasts more clearly. They feel a bit flat compared to the threedimensionality of the skeleton you've drawn. Really think of the breasts as 3D-forms interacting with the ribcage beneath. You could show the roundness by adding crosscontours. You might also benefit from enveloping the breasts lightly before adding details, to make sure they relate correctly to eachother, but also to make sure you've considered the form of each breast. I think you would appreciate watching and following along with Stan's examples: How to Draw Breasts – Assignment Example 1. I like to 1. start by trying myself, 2. then copy Stan's way of drawing 3. then retrying on my own, but trying to draw the way Stan did. Hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!

Hey there! Your method of doing a general envelope / gesture drawing of the entire body first is a helpful way to get the general proportions and pose correct. Apart from that I recommend actually constructing the forms of the pelvis and rib cage (if you haven't done so already) using the bucket method for the pelvis and the "boxy rib cage" method from the next lesson. Doing this really helped me understand the 3d forms of the masses and also to pay closer attention to angles and perspective. While, most of the time, you have no problem getting the proportions right (except in dr. 2 where the head is too small, even bearing in mind fore-shortening), you're angles are off or imprecise in many cases. In dr. 5, for example, the rib cage would be angled forward much further, resulting in a more visible top plane. You can get that information from observing the angle between Anthony's right shoulder and the brow line, which should be at almost the same horizontal level. His pelvis, on the other hand, is actually facing to his left side rather than to his right, as you drew it. If you can't determine the angle between the ASIS, you can also look for the angle between the two Greater Trochanters, which equals the previous. In your dr. 3, the rib cage would be angled to the right much further (I think you can see the point where the rib cage meets the waist at the plane change right above Yoni's left hand, but I might be wrong). Also, the head would appear behind the rib cage, resulting in a fore-shortened cervical spine. In your drawing the pelvis is too small (it should be about two thirds the size of the rib cage) because you put the ASIS points inferior to where they should be. In this pose, you can find the left ASIS by following the Tensor Fasciae Latae muscle to its origin. I hope with the image attached, it becomes more clear what I mean. Apart from that, have fun drawing and until next time :)