Great job, I really like it! Your drawing is very clean and carefully finished in it's details and shadows, amazing how it was done with pencil only :-) Did you draw it from imagination or were you partly inspired by reference images?

Nice work. I have a few notes on things that stood out to me that I think could be improved. First thing, is that her left arm, the one closest to us, seems thinner than her far right arm. I am talking about the upper arm. If either of the arms should be looking thinner it should be the farther one, because of perspective. It’s also a little unclear to me if that closer upper arm is meant to appear to be showing us just the outer side of it, which is what it looks like to me if I just look at the upper part, or if we are meant to be looking at more of the back of the upper arm while still seeing some of the outer side of it. If I look down at that elbow it looks like it has to be showing us a lot of the back of the upper arm. What was your intent there? Another issue is with the overlap with the one arm in front of the other. For the upper, closer arm, you have a tangent line there, where it seems that the closer arm, to us, is sharing a contour line with the far upper arm. Tangents play tricks on the eye and are best avoided if you can. To do that, you could either make the front arm overlap more of the far arm so it is clear that they are not competing for who’s contour line that is, or you could do what I would suggest, in this case, and create some negative space in between them, which would give a better read to the silhouette. This is even made more true in this instance, because the legs are also shown both together, with no space in between them, as well. This creates a kind of mirroring effect, of both less clear silhouette which further takes away from the impact of the read of the image. Now the overlap for the legs is good because there isn’t that tangent issue of the shared contour line. But it does give more of a quick read as being maybe one leg. If, however, you brought one leg back a bit in it’s placement of the lower leg and foot, so that there was negative space between the two legs, I think you would get a stronger read from the silhouette. Or maybe have her crossing her legs to achieve the same effect. Also right now the legs are doing the same thing, and the arms are doing mostly the same thing. That’s a lot of parallels for a pose. A pose will always be more interesting when you have variation instead. Her torso also looks a little stiff, that plus all of her limbs mirroring each other in parallels adds to the stiff feeling. Right now you have her looking back with her turned head, which is nice, but I think that would be enhanced if you gave a bit of a twist to her torso so that her chest would be facing a bit more towards us, with that closer shoulder pulled back with it. This would both make the head turn look more comfortable, and add more dynamics to the pose. And make it easier to have a space between the two arms, like I talked about. I also don’t know what you are doing with the hand which looks like it has one really big finger. I am assuming that was meant to be two fingers together but it looks like one big finger. The last thing is that line, looks like maybe a shadow that goes from eye to eye across her nose. Removing that would look a lot better. Other than that her face looks great. She has a nice expression. The hair looks nice too. Anyway, I think if you made those changes it would improve this drawing. I hope that helps.

Nice illustration! I think it's a good idea to be inspired by reference. I think you did great with the face! Feels solid. - If you're interested in drawing characters from animation I think you would really appreciate the Drawn to Life books I recommended earlier. - I did a drawover of this pose and tried to think of what the story is and how I could clarify it. I get the feeling that I (the viewer) is Prince Charming and she's loooking at me. I get the feeling that her body is moving away from me and that she's expressing "come with me honey" or something. So if I want to emphasize that she's dancing away to the left into the distance, I might indicate the weight on her right leg pushing the hip in that direction, and have the body twist, so that her head is sagging behind. I might then put the arms in perspective, strenghtening this direction. So the story becomes: she's dancing away, asking me to come with her. A close welcoming left hand, and body driving the motion into the distance. - In terms of composition I would play with dominance and subordinance. I suppose you want the focus to be on Cinderella --> giving her the dominance in the picture. The vases in the distance have some very interesting shapes, that compete for attention. If you want Cinderella to be in focus, you might want to simplify the shapes in these background elements. Or you could achieve it through lightening the value and lowering the contrast. I think there are many ways to achieve dominance and subordinance. I'm currently playing with shape, and find it really interesting. I attached some examples of the exercises I've been doing: • How does placement and size affect the story of a circle within a frame? • How can I compose a large and a small circle to adjust which one is dominant? The large one is by it's size dominant, but if I crop or overlap it, it looses a lot of its power making it possible to make the small one dominant • And two examples of a composition exercise: Design a few objects. Make them as different as you can. Compose them within a frame and see if you can tell different stories, playing with dominance. In the one with the ape, the shapes were a little similar. In the one with the bee, I focused on studying nature, to create unique and distinct designs. Next I'll try to think more about the dominance of the shapes. The leaf's spikes attract a lot of attention. Removing those, makes it less dominant and a better supporting actor to the flower. Also, be mindful about tangents. They create a lot of visual tension that you might or might not want. I hope this helps :)

Nicely done! One small fix I would recommend would be to add some cast shadow to the hand underneath the elbow, as it's underneath the other arm and also turned away from the light source it would have less direct light, and it takes some attention away from the intended focal points due to the strong value contrast of light against the dark mirror background. Either way, great job :)

I think it’s because you have her standing too close to the wall. Also, is the foot on the far leg meant to be hovering off of the ground, or resting with the tip of the toes on the ground? If it is meant to be hovering, why? I don’t think hovering is right for this pose, because she seems firmly planted in a resting position, based on the pose of the rest of her body. It seems odd that she would be just balancing on one leg alone. If that foot is meant to be providing support then I think it would improve the pose to have the tip bending forward to show that it is helping to support her balance. That foot would probably have to come down a bit for that. I am not sure about the perspective. Something to consider is that most of her weight is on the closer leg, so that means the hip on that side would be pushed up, and the far side of the hip would drop down, so that far leg would start a little lower down. Doing something with that might help you with making the far foot touching the ground with the toes bent without making the leg seem too long. Just a thought I had that you could consider, if it is useful to you. Right now that foot looks like the heal is pressing through the wall because of the perspective. So try pushing the wall back a bit, and consider having the far foot bent at the tip to help plant her position. I think those changes would help a lot. Looking at it more, I am wondering if it wouldn’t look better if you made her waist a bit thicker. I am not sure how stylized you are intending this to be, but as the rest of her looks pretty normal that might stand out as feeling odd. Right now her arm mostly blocks it, but if it wasn’t, I’m not sure that it wouldn’t stand out more. Just a thought I had. I didn’t notice it at first. All that being said, really nice work man! It’s fun to look at. I really like this interpretation of Snow White.