Hi ... again :) @Luigi Manese, @Liandro, and @Jesper Axelsson . So did another portrait drawing. As always continuing to practice. While this is likely the last "offical" drawing for this course ... I will likely be revisiting both this course and the figure drawing course in the near future. I'm planning to do a bit more work on structure based drawing as well. And it is interesting ... I remember asking you all about drawing from imagination and that I didn't feel like I wanted to do it but ... Lol ... Now that I've been doing draw a box :) ... the idea of drawing from imagination has really ignited. At some point I'm sure I'll be jumping into the anatomy course. So, still a long road ahead of me I think. But most importantly now ... I'm enjoying the process. As always again really appreciate you all!

Hello @Luigi Manese , @Liandro , and @Jesper Axelsson ... I hope you all didn't think I ran away! :) ... I have been keeping up with the practice. Posted a skull practice as well on the Male Skull application page. These are some of my studies. I think I captured some of the likeness. Still struggling with the planes of the face a bit with lighting (maybe I should choose some photos with more dynamic lighting?) and on the one not looking up ... seems like although I tried to fix it still ended up getting the mouth a bit wrong and angle a bit off from the rest of the features. Either way I always love hearing from you all. Let me know what you think! Thanks in advance! PS ... still struggling with the differences between how photos differ in appearance from the actual drawing :(

Posting one of my latest skull studies. Trying out something new … slowing down and not rushing through the layins ☺️. Didn’t push the values as far as I could but reached the point where I checked off all my goals for the study.

Hello everyone. Some ear studies from the lesson videos. Some of the shapes not as accurate as I would like but continuing to practice along with doing practice with the draw a box class. Hopefully everyone is doing well! @Liandro @Jesper Axelsson @Luigi Manese

Hey @Jesper Axelsson, @Luigi Manese and @Liandro Just posting again to let you know I haven’t dropped off the map! I noticed this course doesn’t have much assignments … so it’s kind of choose your own adventure 😆. Anyway, here are some eyes I did. I didn’t really measure on these, was just trying to get a feel for it based on the video. Hope you all are doing well! Others feel free to comment as well. Thanks.

Hey @Jesper Axelsson @Luigi Manese @Liandro just letting you all know that I have started the portrait course (likely anatomy next). Starting to get the hang of this a bit. Will be reaching out for assistance as I go through the course if that’s okay. Thanks!

Hey Vincent! Really nice drawing, the proportion and gesture are really solid. The even tones in the shadows are quite impressive as well, that's a hard thing to do! A couple things I'd say are to focus on the shadow shapes, and how to use them to help the form read. I've included some studies @Erik Gist did while I was taking classes with him. In his drawings you can see that he wraps the rib cage to emphasize the torso going forward in space. In your drawing, the upper back, the ribcage, and hips are all reading as the same form. If you were to push those fundamental bean shapes, I think it'd do a lot for your drawing. Good luck and great job!

Hey Vincent, Nice job on your drawing, the pose and gesture looks good. I wish you had posted the reference, it would make it easier to critique your drawing. I did do a drawing to show you how I think the shadow pattern might look. I also adjusted some proportional problems and fixed that foot. This is all guess work, but my experience tells me what It probably should look like. I hope this is helpful, and keep on drawing :)

It's great! The only that pops to my attention is that erector spinae is too protruding. They should look softer. Keep the middle line, and try to erase the two lines above the PSIS (Venus's dimple).