Theres a lot I feel like I still need to sort out with figures but hopefully turning this into a project helped me learn more about keeping a 3-value system readable. I may need to go back and do more studies in the figure Drawing class before moving forward. Self critique: Proportions are not consistent. (See head of sitting figure) gesturally these could be improved. Values are not showing color -> greyscale value instead everything is rendered like a clay matcap. Soft and hard edges are not used to emphasize focus. (See lost edges) Overall the biggest issues start with the sketches and unified shapes. Perspective and lighting are present but do not work with the gesture to create a mood.

Hi There, First post and first full figure drawing ever - found it really challenging across the board, particularly organizing the values and rendering. Any feedback/criticism on it is much appreciated, thanks!

I finally was able to do the lessons over again! It took me a bit since I was following each assignment with the tutorial, but these are all my second attempts. I wasn't able to finish the lady posing as I was struggling with the shading and had already spent a significant amount of time on the drawing, but I pushed myself to finish the portrait! These drawings have spanned from the past few months, but I feel like I've improved vastly, especially on the portrait. There are still some things that are incorrect, odd, or need tweaking, but overall, I'm happy with my work. Any critique would be greatly appreciated! First attempts are in my profile if your curious

Hi, this is my second attempt

Hi, this is my attempt. First time I draw with Photoshop. I really need to find (or create) the right brushes for me because I don't feel comfortable with those I've used so far. I've already learnt a lot with the first lessons. I'll keep submitting my exercises. Thanks!

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I haven’t done real life gesture drawings in years as I’ve been focusing on original concept art but this has sparked a new interest in it. I’ll definitely be practicing it more often now. Your assignment critique video was really helpful in fixing my own pieces :)

Hello everyone, the real time video on this painting doesn't work for me. Is anybody having the same issue? Also was this done only in one layer?

I know its a bit rough, and i kinds went a bit lazy at the hands, probably go back and try to fix em, but here my practice and ref

Hi everyone! Need some feedback, please:)

Hi everyone, I'm not able to download the practice files. Every time I try, I get an error message. Is there anyone who can help me, please? :) Thank you!

This first assignment of the course does not feel beginner friendly while the course is marked as "all skill levels". Don't get me wrong, I know I have a lot to learn. And I want to learn about these fundamentals. And I see a lot of content mentioned during the video. But it is not broken down into specific skills to practice or assignments to focus on. I might be biased as I am currently taking the drawing basics course. The chapter there on values is really valuable (pun intended). While over here I feel like we went over a whole chapter worth of painting techniques in a demo video. The first demo video covers: grouping of values, shapes, edges, splitting values into light and shadow and keeping them separate, value steps (phrase like "going 2 steps down on my value" only make sense if you learned the value scale before) , layers (I only noticed during my second watch that there are specific points where he creates new layers. The video is edited in a way that you don't really see how many or which layer is being worked on) This is all super interesting to hear. Clearly this is a master sharing their process and it must be great for intermediate and advanced painters. But for a beginner like me this has been many hours of struggling with the tools and concepts. I see the mistakes in my painting and I struggle to fix them without introducing new mistakes. I want to get into painting. But perhaps this course expects us to already be able to paint traditionally before starting these lessons on digital painting.

Here’s my go at the assignment. It took me a while so I have to admit I got a little impatient towards the end, I’m also less familiar with the anatomy of the legs than I am the arms and torso, I’m happy with how it turned out overall though Feedback very welcome :)

Here's my assignment. I had a hard time blending smoothly between values and getting overall tones/values throughout the image. My lines are a lot sketchy-er on digital. It was a good exercise to get more comfortable with digital drawing.

I used a brush from Marc Brunet’s free brush set as I found it was the easiest for me to work with. I will say, I think I’m not using my full value scale enough, and there were definitely areas where I could’ve pushed the light and shadow. On top of that, I’m still kind of shy with letting go of hard-edged line art, but I’m hoping as I continue this course I will break that habit. If anyone has any thoughts I would love to hear them! Thanks

I tried my hardest. This was done with a low round brush on Procreate. I think it got the job done, but I feel it wasn't the best brush to use. If anyone has any good shading brushes, let me know. I'm not very good at making brushes on procreate yet. Nevertheless, I see that I'm learning, which is great!

Done with the airbrush in krita. I changed to that thinking my brush could be part of the problem? I didn't finish the whole thing because I feel pretty frustrated by how terrible it looks. I've made many attempts at painting using this procedure but they all kind of look messy, like I just throw random values in places and just blend until something looks kind of right but still really wrong. Jon appears, to me, to put a value in a certain place and it just magically makes it look really good. I don't know what my problem is but I can only assume it is because I don't put the right values in the right place?