Wow! Cool! The last four look like 3D models 😮 Nice work! - You might want to push toward the extremes more. If you own The Shading Course, there's a video on it Limited Range. Basically, you push what you consider to be a light value, to be more like your lightest light, and what you consider to be a dark value, to be more like the darkest dark; creating a higher contrast between light and dark values, making the painting "pop" more. You have to keep light logic in mind though, so that you're dark halftones don't become darker than the shadow, for example. I did a paintover. Note that I haven't introduced any values darker than what you already had in your painting. I just pushed things to the already existing extremes. - You might also find this video interesting Mind-Blowing Realistic Shading Tricks. - I would encourage you to do studies of great artists who does the type of work you want to be able to do. One that comes to mind, when I think of rendering is William Bouguereau (pronounced "Booge - roh" I think) See if you can copy his rendering, then try creating your own thing, mimicking him. I hope this helps :)

These look good, I'd work on getting the big shape right first. Several of these went off course within the first few lines you put down, because the overall shape isn't correct. #2 is way wider and squashed than the reference. #4 and # 5 are too tall. I think what's happening is you have an idea of what an ear looks like, and all of you drawings are looking the same as that generic ear in your mind, rather than actually seeing what's there. Try tracing over the outline of the ear (on top of the photo) just to see the basic shape, then do the same for your drawing and compare them. You draw a box around them and see how different the boxes are in their dimensions. Basically, simplify more. Keep up the efforts, it's good work.

Thought they were very good, believable. What did you use to do them? Water color, paint, digital?

Cool! - I'm not very good at this myself, but you might want to try variyng the lenght of lines a bit more. In the drawing to the left, many of the lines are the same length. Cheers!

Hi @willyjohn, nice studies! Nice job organizing the values. My favorite is the first drawing. I really like how you used that grey tone to show the plane change at the antihelix. It makes the ear feel 3D. I'll do my best to help you further: Apart from these, I also looked through some of you previous drawings and I really think you would benefit from revisiting the gesture quicksketch exercise and practicing drawing boxes and cylinders. Your ear drawings shows understanding of anatomy but show a lack of form and rhythmical lines. Practicing gesture drawings can give you that rhythm and drawing boxes and cylinders will help you with form. Feel free to tag me (@Jesper Axelsson) if you choose to revisit the exercises. Feedback is super important :) Some tips if you choose to revisit: - I attached an image with some practice tips that really helped me when I took the figure drawing course. Hopefully they could be useful to you too :) - Practice drawing from your shoulder. It is explained in this video How to Hold and Control Your Pencil. Gesture quicksketches are a great place to practice this, since the pressure is low and you always have a new attempt waiting in a minute. Hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!

Wow! Really nice! I like how you used crosshatching to emphasize the form!

Hi @Daniel Lykke, these studies look really nice! The anatomy looks accurate to me. And well done using shading to show forms! I don't have much to critique about the ears so I went to your profile page and your instagram to see if there are any general tips I could give: - I noticed that the Figure Drawing Fundamentals course wasn't in your course library. I would strongly recommend taking it. It will give you a more in depth look, than the portrait course, on how to draw three dimensionally and it also teaches you other important fundamentals, such as gesture. The two fundamentals mentioned above, structure and gesture, are the ones I think would strengthen your art the most. Better structure will help you in your shading decisions (since shading is a result of form) and gesture will make the figures you draw feel even more full of life. I think you would also benefit from learning about values. Value control is important for shading but also for design and composition (strong contrast draws attention, for example). To learn more about this Dorian Iten has an excellent 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 ) He also did a free live stream about values if you want to see who Dorian is before purchasing a course https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0muehtupps8&t=687s For composition specifically I think you would appreciate this Draftsmen episode How to Learn Composition - Draftsmen S2E15 Hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!

Wow, really nice!

Nice drawings! The ears look pretty good! It's mainly the shading that could need improvement I think value control and value grouping is the answer: If you have to practice putting the tone you intended on paper, practicing doing a value scale could help with gaining control https://www.dorian-iten.com/value-gradient/ https://www.dorian-iten.com/value-scale/ If the main issue is seeing values you could - practice doing value studies - squint at the reference to see what values merge into groups (note: you open your eyes again to see the true value. When you squint the contrast is exaggerated. Squinting is only a way to help you group the values) In image #6 for example, the area around the music notes merges with the darks if you squint at the photo. We want to get that same grouping in our drawing. Dorian Iten just released his shading course on proko The Shading Course – Fundamentals of Realism, Light & Shadow, and I can strongly recommend it if you want to learn how to shade. He also has the course on his own website https://www.theshadingcourse.com, where you can get a monthly membership in case buying the course is too much. Hope this helps :)