I love the fact you are doing iterations on gesture drawings! I have apparently unpopular opinion, but in the second drawing I definitely like gesture 4 the most - thou it is my personal impression - - I can feel there the same inward motion the model portrayed. It evokes the same feeling of insecurity, and I think this is due to the way the hand and the upper back work there. But that's just me guessing, so feel free to ignore me ;) The challenge looks awesome, maybe one day i will give it a shot as well!

Good job, as usual. Keep working this way and you’re going to see a lot of improvement. I agree with you on how hard it is to balance proportions and energy.not to mention structure and line. I still struggle with these things myself. I agree with @kotka, number three is my favourite too. I have added a few things for you to think about. Mainly, what does the apex of our line communicate. I hope this helps. I’ve also added some ideas relating to how these rhythms connect. One thing that really helped me was to actually draw arrows at the end of my lines. let me know if you have any questions. (I love questions by the way)

@Danet @Steve Lenze and @kotka thank you so much for your feedback! I did the following so far this week: -fixed the eyes on the dog characters -did a bunch of gesture drawings, this time did multiple drawings of 1 model. Really tried to exaggerate and simplify the drawings. -Watched and studied the video about torso's suggested by Danet. The challenge will be for me to recognize the different types of torso's. For the prussian general dog character, this would be the third itteration, so i thought it would be fun to post al 3 of them :)

Hi, great work as usual. I love all the work you did designing the helmet, and the character is a lot of fun. I agree with @Steve Lenze notes on the eyes. They are one of the hardest parts to draw. As for the figure drawing, here are some notes on the way the force method works. Hope it helps. Take a look at this video too. It explains the types of torso you can find. It’s quite long but very valuable. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SL2H5JquELg As for the limbs, you want to get to a similar point as with the right screen arm, there you created a path which describes how the arm connects. It helps to try different things, and see which works best. Lots of quick drawings of the same figure will teach you more than one slow drawing of many figures. let me know if you have any doubts!

Your gesture drawings are looking pretty good, but you need to incorporate what your learning into your cartoon drawings too. The biggest issue is with the eyes. The way you have drawn them is flattening them out. You need to make sure you think of the eyes as spheres and make sure the brows wrap around them. I did a quick sketch to show you what I mean, I hope it helps :)

Hi! Good job. I love that you keep on doing fun drawings and combining them with your studies. I also agree with @prymitywizm that your line is very good. I have done a few critiques on gesture drawings before, so you can take a look at some of the images on my profile https://www.proko.com/@danimctigue/albums/gesture My main note, for you, is that you are drawing too much. What we think of as gesture depends on the teacher, but I’m of the force school. To me, the important part of gesture is trying to find the rhythms not the shapes (that comes later) This way we are able to think of the body as one thing only. So the gesture is not just about what the story is, but how all the different parts connect to tell that story. I know this sounds a bit vague, but it isn’t. Gesture is pretty straightforward. Read some of my critiques and make sure to post some of the reference images next to the drawings next time, that way I can be more specific. keep up the good work.

Hi Scott, I have a bit more than two decades ahead before retirement. I am pursuing art in my free time, amazed by all the free resources at my fingertips. I found studying art very meaningful, and I totally imagine myself doing a lot of that after leaving the workforce. See you around!

How the hell your insects have such readable lines? Tablet?

I am probably a horrible person right now, but I am happy that I am not the only one for whom 200 cylinders is a hellish challenge 😅 What helped me with boxes a bit was to draw a box and then make a second one almost the same, just with one variable changed - that way I could see how this one particular change affects the rest - I think some things fell into place after that + the challenge is less boring this way. Ps. I am starting perspective II next week, but I plan also to finish those hellish cylinders before that unite challenge.

I can’t answer your question on the perspective but your insects are very good. The line quality is spot on and the shapes look 3d. Is this digital?

Nice work! Nice rendering on the portrait too! You're checking pretty your cylinders quite well although I'll point out a few errors I've - sometimes when you're drawing the correct minor ellipses its not going down the centre of the ellipse. e.g. 111, 76, 82 are all off to one side - As Danet mentioned, avoid cylinders with little to no foreshortening. You're not fully practicing perspective if there's no foreshortening. For that matter, practice a variety of foreshortening, get extreme in some of them! One other thing I noticed is your ellipses in both the mushrooms and the curved cylinders aren't shifting, they're basically the same width all the way through. We're actually viewing each ellipse from a slightly different angle so some should appear wider/thinner than others, I've attached a diagram for explanation. Keep up the good work!

I find the cylinders challenge much harder than the box one, mainly because of checking. I am not sure if I am finding my minor axis right correctly. I THINK (I am not sure though - maybe someone will correct me) we should find the widest part of the ellipse and check if it is perpendicular to the major axis - I think it aligns with what @Danet said, but again I feel a bit lost about it. I am curious how you will feel about the second part of the challenge - drawing ellipses within a box - I'll be honest I had my crisis there, and I quit, but seeing you going strong motivates me to go back, so thanks for that! :)

I must say, I am in awe of your work. I really admire your drive. A lot of good stuff here. Your ellipses are pretty good in general, for the few that were a bit off I have added some notes. Your portrait is really beautiful, it just needs a bit more structure. When you start applying everything that you’re learning to your figures you are going to explode. I’m really looking forward to seeing what you produce. A face isn’t a cube, but some of the parts are alligned, and they help us to avoid things getting out of wack. I recommend drawing over photographs to find the perspective In the face. oh and don’t forget to find the edge that is closer to us. I marked it in purple. hope this helps. let me know if you have any doubts and keep going!

Hi! I did drawabox a little while ago so I can offer some tips. Checking for mistakes is an important steps for understanding what you're doing wrong and how to improve. For cylinders: - find the center point of the 2 ellipses and check if your minor axis divides the ellipses exactly in half - with a ruler, draw the correct minor axis for each ellipse and see how it compares to the minor axis you drew, it should be perpendicular to the major axis - check foreshortening is correct - the ellipse closest to the viewer should be larger than the one going away - check the degree shift - the ellipse further away should be wider than the ellipse closest to the viewer. The difference in wideness should follow the amount of foreshortening. So in this example: - the minor axis runs directly down the middle of both ellipses, nice - the minor axis is pretty close for the small ellipse but is not aligned for the larger one - the cylinder is foreshortened the wrong way. Your hatching indicate smaller ellipse is visible and is closest to us, but if its closest to us it should be larger than the other ellipse - the degree shift is good, the ellipse further away from us is wider. The difference in wideness is believable given the amount of foreshortening So it should looks something like my example (although you can see it's not perfect either). Keep checking for mistakes and look for trends, that way you can figure out which areas you can improve on. Hope that helps! Also if you haven't already, you should checkout the drawabox discord server, its pretty active and you're much more likely to get feedback from people familiar with the course content