I did another one. Here is page 2.

Nice lines. Okay here is what I’m seeing that I think is throwing you off a bit. I think that you might be trying to stay too true to the blob shape with your cubes. I think I struggled with that too a bit last night when I was working on this. Just remember, if it’s between staying more true to the blob or following the perspective rules for the cubes, pick the cube each time. I know something I was trying to workout was should I try to keep the blob in the cube by making the cube a bit too big, or stay within the blob and have the cube look maybe too small for it. I think somewhere in between is good. It doesn’t have to match up perfectly, and I don’t think it should or even can, and still be the right perspective each time. Alright, lets look on cube 8, it was a nice idea to number them, it makes giving feedback much easier. The bottom sides could work as is, but it’s kind of a wide angle perspective, and I feel like we shouldn’t be practicing anything but the most normal lens perspective right now to keep things consistent in our brains. So I would have made that front planes top line angle less obtuse, less wide from that of the one on the side plane. The side plane’s lines looks good. But lets just say if you wanted to keep that wide angle to the perspective of the cube. In that case you would need to fix the line of the back most plane, as that does not converge in the correct direction. Remember, those front and side planes are the ones that are closest to the viewer, so they will appear as the biggest in perspective. Meaning the converging lines will converge away from us, not, as you have them, towards us. So that back line of the top plane should be converging with the front line of the top plane as it goes away from us, instead of towards us. As far as the other cubes go there is a lot of the same issue going on. I would work on making the angles less wide, and on picturing what is closest to us on the cube and what goes away, and make sure the lines are converging in the direction that goes away from us. Maybe look at a cube in real life, you could even use a Kleenex box for that. Cube 14 looks good to me. Nice job on that one.

I would say yes. That's how I understand it. The minor axis goes from that center point of the box / ellipse back to, and out from, the same vanishing point of the side of the box that is connecting both of those ellipses together to form a wheel, or a cylinder.

Are you going to do a small video where you go through the different contest winners? I think that would be fun to watch. I'd like to see what each of them look like without having to click on each name and find it. Also congratulations to all the artist that won a prize. It was fun to see all the different art people did.

Nice work! Fun drawing!

Really nice work!

Very nice.

Nice work. I have a few notes on things that stood out to me that I think could be improved. First thing, is that her left arm, the one closest to us, seems thinner than her far right arm. I am talking about the upper arm. If either of the arms should be looking thinner it should be the farther one, because of perspective. It’s also a little unclear to me if that closer upper arm is meant to appear to be showing us just the outer side of it, which is what it looks like to me if I just look at the upper part, or if we are meant to be looking at more of the back of the upper arm while still seeing some of the outer side of it. If I look down at that elbow it looks like it has to be showing us a lot of the back of the upper arm. What was your intent there? Another issue is with the overlap with the one arm in front of the other. For the upper, closer arm, you have a tangent line there, where it seems that the closer arm, to us, is sharing a contour line with the far upper arm. Tangents play tricks on the eye and are best avoided if you can. To do that, you could either make the front arm overlap more of the far arm so it is clear that they are not competing for who’s contour line that is, or you could do what I would suggest, in this case, and create some negative space in between them, which would give a better read to the silhouette. This is even made more true in this instance, because the legs are also shown both together, with no space in between them, as well. This creates a kind of mirroring effect, of both less clear silhouette which further takes away from the impact of the read of the image. Now the overlap for the legs is good because there isn’t that tangent issue of the shared contour line. But it does give more of a quick read as being maybe one leg. If, however, you brought one leg back a bit in it’s placement of the lower leg and foot, so that there was negative space between the two legs, I think you would get a stronger read from the silhouette. Or maybe have her crossing her legs to achieve the same effect. Also right now the legs are doing the same thing, and the arms are doing mostly the same thing. That’s a lot of parallels for a pose. A pose will always be more interesting when you have variation instead. Her torso also looks a little stiff, that plus all of her limbs mirroring each other in parallels adds to the stiff feeling. Right now you have her looking back with her turned head, which is nice, but I think that would be enhanced if you gave a bit of a twist to her torso so that her chest would be facing a bit more towards us, with that closer shoulder pulled back with it. This would both make the head turn look more comfortable, and add more dynamics to the pose. And make it easier to have a space between the two arms, like I talked about. I also don’t know what you are doing with the hand which looks like it has one really big finger. I am assuming that was meant to be two fingers together but it looks like one big finger. The last thing is that line, looks like maybe a shadow that goes from eye to eye across her nose. Removing that would look a lot better. Other than that her face looks great. She has a nice expression. The hair looks nice too. Anyway, I think if you made those changes it would improve this drawing. I hope that helps.

Yeah, that looks much better now. Nice work!

Wow what a difference from when you first posted about this! That is a massive jump! Really nice work Lin! They are fun to look at. Almost looks like Mike Mattesi drew them. Your lines look great! The line weight is fun. There are a few areas that I see that could be improved. In your first pose, the far upper leg, his right, looks a bit too symmetrical in shape. There is the same issue with the upper arm. Designing a better shape for those parts would help a lot. Another thing that I think would help with this one is to show a line for the hip above his left leg, our right side. As is, it looks like the leg is attached too high, and you lose a bit of the torso’s feel. On your fourth pose, the leg closest to us, on the upper leg it would be good for it to taper in some towards the knee. Right now it looks really symmetrical. Which means it doesn’t move our eye through the shape. Then the far leg would be improved if the bottom tapered in at the ankle, on the lower leg. As for upper leg I think it would be better to just keep that bottom line a straight. Right now you have it curving up at the pelvis and it’s giving it a pinched look. Even with those issues they are still really fun to look at. But making those changes, I think, would make them only more impressive. I hope this helps.

These look really nice! Great job. Really nice work. They are fun to look at. Nice lines.

Yeah, that looks a lot better now. I am happy that was of help.

This looks very nice to me! I have a couple thoughts. On the profile view I am not sure that her muzzle fits the three fourths view. When I look at the three fourths view I don’t picture that protruding forward as much as you have in the profile view. I don’t know that I am right, that is just my impression. Another thing that I notice on her profile view is that her eye seems like it is in a, non-relaxed, wide open expressing of surprise. It’s a very intense look. In the other views her eyes look casual. I see why it’s like this, because of how you shaped the eyes, so I don’t know if you have to redesign the eyes so that on the far sides they don’t look wide open, or if you just fudge the profile view so that you are not seeing the full iris. I like how they look in the other two views. I hope that helps.