These are excellent, really beautiful work!

Hi @younchen, nice studies! The anatomy, shading and forms look pretty good! And nice shape design. - Try to be more aware of space. Before you start drawing, figure out which part of the body is closest to the viewer, and which one is furthest. In your 2nd drawing for example, I don't really feel that the left leg is diving into space. It feels a bit like everything in the drawing is on the same picture plane. Having a clear understanding of how things are oriented in space, allows you to communicate depth clearly. Use the tools at your disposal to communicate depth (size, placement, shape, soft/hard edges, wrapping the shading around the forms, directional hatching, value, etc.). -The underlying drawing isn't very strong. The overall shape of the leg doesn't correspond well to the reference (you tend to make it too straight), and the proportions are a bit off (you tend to elongate the leg). I think you would benefit from doing some drawings where you break down the leg into very simple shapes, and try to design them with gesture. Kinda similar to what you might see @Mike Mattesi doing. As a complement to your anatomy studies I would highly recommend practicing some timed figure drawing, where you get to focus on the figure as a whole. I think you would benefit from mimicking Glenn Vilppu's work. I like his approach of starting with a flow, then containing it with forms. He explains this at 21:00 in this Drawing Demo by Glenn Vilppu. If you do some figure drawings, feel free to tag me (@Jesper Axelsson), if you want some feedback :) Hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!

I think these look great! If I could offer any critiques - mostly a personal taste - I think some harder edges in the shading of the quad(?) - the first image where the guy is squatting.

Nice! - I would keep an extra eye out for proportions. I think you would appreciate this video Measuring Techniques. Starting with an envelope, to make sure the big picture is working, will really help I think. - Try to give the drawings more gesture. Just like with the envelope mentioned above, this could be something you do in your lay-in, before thinking about the anatomical detail. Start by drawing the legs, just thinking about creating shapes that have good gesture, then add the anatomical details on top. You might appreciate this video How Asymmetry and Anatomy Go Hand in Hand. - Before shading details, first think of the shading of the primary forms ( How to Shade a Drawing at 0:45 ) At the moment, the primary forms don't ready very clearly. - To show the roundness of the forms, soften the edges where the form turns; either by using a softer brush, or by adding a transitional value. - When I did my shading paintover I noticed that what looked like shadow in your drawings was actually light halftones. Was it supposed to be light halftone? Try making it lighter so that it looks like being part of the lights. I think you used the value of the dark halftones. Hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!

Solid, concrete and clean. Very professional. Excellent shading. Fantastic.

Hey Sadie, I like your drawings, I think you captured the gesture and the anatomy pretty well. You mentioned that you were not good at rendering yet, so I thought I would show you a few things that I think will get you started. First of all, rendering is meant to give volume and show form. The easiest way to begin is to start with the core shadow that runs along the length of the form. Then softly transition into the light side with half tones, and into the shadows with dark half tones. Notice that each form gets a core shadow and half tones I did some sketches over your drawings to show you what I mean. I hope it's clear and you understand what I am showing you :)

Good job ! Nice shape design and shadow mapping !