These look good! And yeah gotta watch out for autopilot. You could be a little more definite about the transition to light and shadow. This might be because it feels natural to keep rounding the form, but by cutting those harder core shadows, you will add to the illusion of three dimensionality. Nice work!

I really like these.

awesome.

Nice!

Wow Jose, that is a lovely smooth technique. My only comment is that maybe the light bits at the bottom should be a little darker as the light source seems to be more from above?

These spears look very nice! I like how this works even though the light seems to come from multiple directions. I wll defintely try this myself.

Went back to review earlier lessons and I think I caught one of my mistakes here: Seems to me I went to dark in the shadows, which is confusing because it doesn't comply with the range of values I imagine being in a "fleshspear." Like Steven said in lesson 4, "flesh has a particular contrast range" and things like sss wouldn't allow the shadows to get that dark. This is starting to look like one of Burne Hogarth's metal men.

Love that you got creative with the second one- adding the geometric shapes to it is a great idea! I think with how nice and dark you have the shadows you can afford a little bit more rendering in the light. Yes, we must compress it, but having nothing there often gives a "bleached out" look that hurts the form.

That lighting set up is indeed tricky, though it's one commonly encountered in figure drawing- a common example being un-bent legs in a standing pose when the light is mostly from above. The pocket solution is to minimize the amount of "true" light shapes as the ones at the "front" of the spear will be blocking most of the light from the ones behind them, and to get a bit off fall off as you move away from the light. By fall off I mean make each light shape slightly darker overall than the ones that are closer to the light source than it. That falloff doesn't actually happen with the sun, whose illumination is generally even, but it does with most other light sources and explains things clearly to the viewer.

I think these came out quite nice. On your spear I think you need to focus on getting a softer transition out of the shadow line into the light. Try squinting as you work the edge and seeing if the transition reads as "soft" or "sharp" while your eyes are blurred.

I like your complex shape and up lighting here. Watch out for some of those spotty darks that you have in the little tail at bottom left. Your lights also look a little bleached out, you might want to give them a bit of subtle form love in those open light areas.

That's tough. Allow me to give my 2 cents on the matter. I think you should consult an orthopedist. When talking about nerve damage you want know about your own limits and restrictions so you can devise solutions without worsen the problem. In this particular case you need help outside the art community from someone that is knowledgeable on the subject. There are ways you can work around your problem, but you need to know the safest way to do it, for how much time you can do it, and overall best practices and cares. Take care and Best regards

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I think this one came out quite nice! Good job.