I did this kind of exercises with one of my drawings, but I don't know if I'm doing it well...

These look great! Your gesture has improved a lot. I think I'll try the thing with the arrows that you did in my own practice, looks helpful. I think the next step for you would be to get a basic understanding of the pelvis and the rib cage. The angles of your pelvis boxes are good, but for a better representation of the pelvis you should make them somewhat taller and narrower. Understanding the connection of the tibia to the pelvis is important. For the upper body, understand that the rib cage gets narrower towards the top, and the widening of the silhouette is caused by the shoulder girdle and the neck muscles. I think knowing where the ribcage/ shoulder girdle ends and where the neck muscles begin would help you on that one drawing with an x by it. Hope that helps! Please let me know if you have questions :)

I watched the proko videos and did more practice. Please let me know how I did!

Start by reading and copying the plates of loomis book : Drawing the Head and Hands Also I recommend you see the proko videos where he speaks about the basics : https://www.proko.com/course-lesson/how-to-draw-the-head-from-any-angle/assignments Take notes

Hey Chrystal, Good job working on the Loomis head. The thing I notice the most is that your lines do not wrap around the shape of the head. The skull is a 3D shape, so make sure you wrap the lines around it. I did a quick sketch to show you what I mean :)

Here are my assignments for the shoulder muscles. I had difficulties with the third.

- this is not a good reference - I feel you should be more assertive and accurate with the shapes : head, neck , hair - also with the shapes of the shading - the face features arent so bad but there's a problem with their placement My recommendations is that befor this type of study: - practice the loomis head - practice and memorise the reily rythms for the head - redraw from reference but only do the shapes and lines, master that before trying to shade - practice drawing and shading 3d shapes : sphere - cube - then more complex geometrical shapes - practice simplifying organic shapes into simpler geometric shapes: this will help you transfer the shading skills into shading organic shapes Hope this helps Good day !, Ghada.

the Form is solid and I like how expressive they are!

This was my first attempt. I realized very late, that I had made the cast shadow and core shadow too dark. Besides that I think what I'm struggling a lot with are the half tones, those were hard to do. Also I'm not sure if I made the reflected light too dark aswell? Feedback would be appreciated! :) I am going to try again now :D

Happy to hold a pencil again after digital drawing. The paper is thin and shiny, I guess not te right newsprint, but I like the colour more than the grey.

The perspective on these is solid! the top part of the first pelvis in picture #2 looks a little tall and the bottom pelvis in picture #3 is rotated more towards the viewer than the reference is (it looks fine though). The top part on the pelvis in picture #5 also looks tall. Also I feel like the angle that those top bones go up at and the angle between the bones right below the public bone could be wider. all your pelvis features are nice and cohesive. I can’t imagine how much ur brain hurt after drawing these lol, nice work. please let me know if u have questions :)

She looks like the same character in each one to me

The colors good. If you want to try style using it and moving away from the reference I’d try: 1. playing with the shapes of your brushstrokes. The overall shape of the rock formation may be the same but the shapes of the subtle shifts between values and hues can be styleizsd 2. Pushing color changes. You can try things like making a subtle reflected light color more obvious, or making saturated areas in your reference even more saturated in your painting (don’t overdo it though). https://youtu.be/nINus0lYQjo this Marco buck video is helpful for learning how to do that. also sometimes what I do is I just add random fun looking colors and see what happens. Important note though, none of these tips are things that you must do in a painting, they’re simply here for you to try to see if you like them :) hope this is helpful! Please ask questions if you have any

They look very painterly! I also like how you did the loose skin on the middle guys face, shows the form well but doesn’t draw attention away from the eyes and nose

looks nice! try pushing the darks even darker and making your darks more saturated. more contrast between darks and lights shows the form better.

Hey Crystal, I like what your doing here, I'm seeing a lot of gesture in these poses. I agree with @Leandro Alli , you would benefit from studying anatomy as a whole, and one body part at a time. I think though, because of the kind of artist I suspect you are, you should continue drawing from your imagination. As you learn new anatomy, use it in those drawings. So, about the heads, I like to add them into my gesture drawing at the beginning. A lot of people add the head after figuring out the torso and pelvis, which is fine. One thing I keep in mind is that the body always follows the head, just like the head always follows the eyes. This goes back to my animation training, that's why I do it that way. I did a sketch to show you what I mean about making the head part of the gesture. Keep up the work, that first figure you did is pretty good, and the boxing pose is really nice, I can really feel the distribution of weight. I hope this helps :)