Busy week this week, not much time to draw but I really wanted to make the most of the feedback that I received. I drew another picture of my ginger root/blob guy, during a few lunch breaks. My aim was to lock in those core shadows and smooth out that shading.

I learned a lot from this and I'm not even in the edges part of the course. I'm still working through lines and just clicked on this video because it was new and I was curious. Holy heck this answers questions I've had about shading since forever! Shading has always been the bane of my existence as an artist. Can't wait to reach this part of the course for reals!

I appreciate the critique. I’ll keep practicing to better control texture on paper!

after the critique...

Great general critique as ever Stan. Thanks for the pointers and I suspected ‘user error’ would be the culprit for poor smudging - I’ll check out the Eliza Ivanova videos of how she approaches this technique. Cheers!

Thank you so much, Stan! I can see the imperfections in my drawing better now. I'm happy to invest more decades for the mileage and hope to improve :D

Hi Stan, thank you for the critique. I really appreciate the feedback, and I am going to keep working on that shadow placement!

thankssssssssssssss, i will complete demos soon

Thank you, Professor Stan! We benefit from your critique & Feedback.

I parallell to this have gone back practice line quality again. It was feeling a bit like i was forgetting it while doing values and edges. When you are doing values and edges are you still using shoulder and elbow? Or are you using your wrist? I’m using the wrist. And after doing that a lot it felt awkward doing lines with shoulder and elbow again.