Following on from 'Started the 100 heads challenge...' (https://www.proko.com/community/topics/started-the-100-heads-challenge), I'm surprised I finished this, I'm not good at sticking to things usually, especially on this one when losing power at home for a week during the challenge! Firstly, critique me please!: If you feel like browsing through my images in the attached thread or in my album, I'd love some critique/feedback on bad habits or consistent issues that appear through them so I can be aware of and work on them. Or just general critique on particular images, but most important to me is taking some big learning points away from this and not continuing with poor practice or bad habits. Secondly, my thoughts after completing the challenge: - This was a hard challenge as I'm not experienced with portraits/heads - I should have thought of more of a plan going into the challenge to focus learning. My approach was just to understand portraits and heads more and improve at drawing them, but I should have thought more about focusing on different areas throughout: shading, structure, proportion, etc. By not focusing I was a bit all over the place and I think I could have got more out of the experience by being more conscious of targeted learning - Getting the structure right is critical! ...Yet I kept moving on from structure too early and ending up with measurement and proportion issues. Should have also worked more on building up structure through different methods (Loomis, Reilly, etc) - I was not really interested in digital drawing before this, but having discovered Infinite Painter as I began (coming from Autodesk Sketchbook, which didn't like) I really enjoyed experimenting with different brushes and approaches. This helped me break out of detail at times and keep interest and enjoyment going. Definitely a learning curve though being very inexperienced with digital drawing, but IP was quite intuitive. - A lot of the references are quite poor in lighting and/or clarity. There were also too many sculptures with beards :p In saying that I think the references not all being well lit or detailed helped focus on different elements, so I won't complain too much (except those damn bearded sculptures!) - I highly recommend when doing this challenge to change-up the brushes and mediums used. Switching to unfamiliar brushes and mixing paper and digital really helped keep it interesting and I discovered some fun styles and approaches Now I'm thinking about the next challenge... I'd like to be a bit more targeted, so this time something more specific, e.g. colour, shading, anatomy (animal/insects), perspective. Perhaps the drawabox course. I definitely need challenges like this to supplement my learning as I'm very good at changing focus and not sticking to things. What do others suggest as similar challenges to help build targeted practice (anything except meticulous measuring, I really don't enjoy that)? Here's a small selection from the 100 heads challenge (hmm, can't seem to browse more than a few images from the album; bug?), feel free to view the full progress thread above or the album I created for it :) Thanks for reading and following along if anyone did :)