Hey Peter, This is a cool reference that has a lot of tonal variation that gives it a nice 3D feel. unfortunately this statement: "There's a bit of exaggeration and extra tonal work for drama and effect, and I did take a couple of liberties with the source material." Makes it impossible to critique. All the things I would say need attention is covered by that statement. I guess what you have to ask yourself is: what am I trying to achieve. To create an accurate drawing using the rules of light hitting an object, or, to do it the way I want. No judgement, either way is fine, it just makes it hard to critique. If you want some help understanding how light works and to achieve accuracy, let me know and I'll go over this with you :)

Hey Sarvesh, I can see your drawing is pretty good, the angles are good and the gesture feels pretty solid. The waist and ribcage area are a little small so always check your proportions. As far as your rendering is concerned, it is clear that you are confused by all the values presented in the reference. My solution to you is to ignore all the values you see by squinting until all you can see is two values- dark and light. Then, fill these values in and ignore all the rest. When you can do this successfully, then you can start adding middle values, dark accents and highlights. I did a quick demo to show you what I mean, hope it helps :)

That´s a great thing about practice, it shows you what you need to improve, so you can focus on that for the next practice and so on. If we already had all the skills developed and knowledge memorized, we wouldn´t be studying! lol I do like that you were willing to go all the way through even with difficulty, great effort bud!

Hey necplusprocess, Nice job on your drawing. I went ahead and did a quick sketch to show you some of the things I noticed. I hope it's helpful :)

dayum, looks great

Hi @Romain Decotte, nice drawing! Great job with structure and anatomy and following the process Stan suggested! - "I find shading quite complex and challenging and still have plenty to learn" I found shading to be hard too :) I didn't pay much attention to it the first few years. My goal was to learn how to draw Tarzan 🍌🦍, so all my focus went into gesture, structure and anatomy. It's only the last two years that I've been digging into shading. May I suggest something? If your goal is to be able to do work that involves shading and composition with light (basically any work except unrendered 2d animation maybe), I think I would actually recommend you to learn more about shading and composition, rather than learning more anatomy at the moment. This drawing and the work in your previous posts show that you already have a solid grip on gesture and form. If you can smack basic shading on top of that you'll be able to create awesome work, that I think will even surprise yourself. Right now, the shading weakens your drawings. I made the "mistake" of ignoring shading in the beginning. It was not a waste of time, I learned a lot of other stuff, but without knowledge of shading, I couldn't do much beyond line and wire frame drawings. Just learning the very basics of shading has opened up a whole new world of possibilities for me. The course that really opened it up for me was Joseph Todorovitch's course From Painting to Canvas on NMA https://www.nma.art/courses/from-paper-to-canvas/ It showed me that when you know gesture and structure, shading is pretty easy; you map out shade and shadow, fill it in with an even tone, soften the form edges and keep edges of cast shadows sharp. I took Joseph's course during the winter and I'm currently practicing value studies, since I felt like that was my weakest point. If you want to dive deeper into shading (get answers on questions you might have, learn about values and how to invent light with even more control) Dorian Iten has a course called The Shading Course – Fundamentals of Realism, Light & Shadow (you can also find it on his website if a monthly membership suits you better https://www.theshadingcourse.com) Hope this helps :) Feel free to ask if you have any questions about my suggestion!

Pretty good! Good proportions and the forms are sculpted well enough. There's some things I think you can improve: _ The pec in shadow: you can darken the shadow halftone, It's a bit too light I think. I would add to the realism if you play down the forms in the shadows. Same thing in the face. Everything you did on the torso seems so intentional that the designs inside the shadows in the face feel sloppy in comparison. Since this is a torso study, darkening these areas would made the lighted areas pop out more. - I feel that you exaggerated the tendon in the triceps too much and it's kinda distracting. Review the lesson on the triceps. Even in the reference I see more a flat area than a hole. - Vary your design also. At the side of the torso you're using a series of curves to describe the anatomy. Mix a few little straights in to unify the design and look for overlaps to give more depth. - Work more on the transition between core shadow to half tone. I feel that you did a good job in some areas like the pecs but at the lower abs, for example, the transition is a little too sudden. - You can put a dark element in the background near the lighted torso to make it pop out more too. - The last thing is about value range. The values in the light are very bright. I feel that for that intensity of light you almost wouldn't see a thing in the shadows. I think the whole thing would be more unified if the light values were a little more dark in general. But that's up to taste, anyway try doing value studies where you vary the range of the values in dark and light and observe what feels more natural to you. That's it, very good job! Keep drawing as I would like to see more from you. Best Regards