Much appreciated for the review on my first pose!

I’m looking forward to be in her class, I’m sure Proko is in the work!

I notice the way you are holding the round brush as if you are writing chinese calligraphy. Is this normal holding style or your own style? Thanks.

What is a best way to learn value, digital or gouache? Thank you.

As a beginner, can walk us the steps for value exercise each day? Thanks.

Would like to see all the lessons in one link, now it is not organized. Anyone having that issue?

This website is confusing

Since we know the length from the neck to the knuckle is 5 inches, instead of bending each joint, we can measure once and rewire back in. I understand we need to compensate the movement of each joint but we can add 5 and 3/8 inches to the length of the wire. I notice I have been fighting with wire when at the joint and taking much time. Working a large new coil of wire is no fun, I decided to cut off an excess of wire at the final run off the shoulder and knuckle. I just rewire the excess black to the neck. I'm having problem uploading my iPhone photo format .HEIC, this web site doesn't take the new format and I hope Proko will update soon! Thank you.

If you already have gouache, I recommend you do some black and white photo studies instead of using colour (it's so tiring to get colour mixed right...), then you can grasp the value relationship pretty quickly, which is a heavy lifting element in a painting. I'm not against going directly into digital, but digital brush and display will tend to lead you to not discover the real luminance range of an image, because a screen it's emissive, and somehow doesn't really put context lighting into your vision. If you go digital directly, I recommend that you paint some pure white and pure black squares in corners of your image, then you will always have a reference of the luminance range you can go.

Hi, was able to "finish" it on time, thank you very much Andrew! Crits are welcome :) kobi