These are awesome! I LOVE the chickens!!

Nice work! Great shape breakdown!

Excellent studies, love the Watterson!

Composition is kind of it's own area of study. Check out this episode of Draftsmen about How to Learn Composition, it may answer some questions for you. https://www.proko.com/course-lesson/how-to-learn-composition-draftsmen-s2e15/discussions There's a whole section of the Community dedicated to Composition worth checking out to see how others are composing their work, and the challenges they're facing.  https://www.proko.com/community/categories/composition Just ahead in the Shapes lesson of Drawing Basics Mike Mattesi talks about shape composition and visual storytelling, a great lesson that uses film examples to discuss shape language and composition. (You can watch this video anytime and get something new from it, so if you're curious feel free to jump ahead and watch it!) https://www.proko.com/course-lesson/shape-composition-with-mike-mattesi/discussions Also check out this video from comic artist David Finch on composition basics and visual storytelling. https://www.proko.com/course-lesson/basics-of-comic-composition/discussions All that said, Composition is a huge topic. At its most basic, Composition is just the organization of forms and space. A quick way to improve your compositional eye, even for individual drawings, is to plan the placement of your drawing on the page before you start drawing. Stan will cover this soon in Basics, begin your drawing by estimating the top, bottom, left and right most edges of your drawing and mark them lightly on the page before you begin to give yourself an envelope to contain your drawing. That’s always a good first step at composing your individual drawings so you don't run out of room on the page, and over time your eye will develop for how to use the space available to arrange your work. Hope this helps!

Nice! These look great, you can really feel the squash in each one. You've made them all feel like they have real depth and volume, they seem to be moving into or out of the picture plane. Keep it up!

This is fantastic! I love your construction breakdown, beautiful shape design, your line weight is well considered, rendering and value control, well done!! I even love your page composition, this study is worth studying!

Nice study! There's a lot going on and a ton to balance in this Kojima piece, the dry brushing alone is a masterclass! Squinting down while studying the reference can help you see where your values are a little light, and where you can push further into black, but this is a great start! You could start to work up layers on top of this to push it even further. A layer of dry brush in the darker areas will really push elements into the background. The trees you have in the bottom right foreground are working wonderfully, they're really starting to show some depth into the forest. The mountain side of dark tree tops in the middle ground could be pushed a bit further into black. A medium tip brush pen like the Pentel XFP5M can give you a really nice split end dry brush effect if you let the reservoir run low while you're inking. In David Finch's Comic Page Course he covers how to shadow in trees and organic elements which I think could help you here! https://www.proko.com/course-lesson/page-2-line-weight-shadows-and-backgrounds/discussions Hope this helps, keep up the good work!

These are beautiful, great work!

You're doing a good job! The directions of the lines is important. Generally you want to direct your lines in a way that follows and accentuates the form of whatever it is you're drawing. Think about your lines wrapping around the form like a rubber band. You've done a good job of accentuating the form by shading around the pear. As for the consistency in your shading, that will come with time and practice, its really challenging to balance pressure for an even tone, but you're starting to get the hang of it. It looks like you could apply another layer of tone on top of each value to even things out. Take another pass filling in each value so each shape is as clean and consistent as you can make it, but try keep the values you have established. Take a look at the demo for the Pear Project, Stan covers how to layer up each value so it's clean and consistent. Keep up the good work!

These look awesome! Great work!

Very nice!!

Hey Robert! 0.5mm is a great all around choice for a mechanical pencil, but you might find it limited in the variety of marks you can make with it. The wider the diameter of lead, the more variety of line you can achieve, for instance a 0.9mm mechanical pencil is wide enough to maintain a chisel edge for shading, or creating thick to thin dynamic lines, but its still a fairly thin consistent line. Theres mostly artist preference between a 0.5 and 0.7mm, but there's a noticeable jump from 0.5 to 0.9mm and up. I'm a big fan of 2mm clutch mechanical pencils to go along with a 0.5mm. It can give you a huge variety of line in one lead size. A 2mm lead is really close to the diameter of a standard woodcase pencil so you get a very close feel to a traditional pencil, you can bevel the edges on a sanding block to get a tapered point which is great for shading. The reverse end of the lead can also be sharpened in a different way to give you some options like a rounded/blunt tip for quick sketching, or sanded to a chisel point to get even more variety in the line. You can switch sides depending on what kind of line you need and only carry one pencil. Hope this helps!

Beautiful work!

Hey Blanche! It's not a requirement, but the Figure Drawing Fundamentals course is a great companion course to Anatomy! If you're already comfortable drawing figures and just want to learn more about anatomy you can jump right in, but if you are just starting to learn about how to draw figures definitely check out Figure Drawing Fundamentals course, once you learn the fundamentals, you'll be able to get a lot more out of the Anatomy course. Hope this helps!

Beautiful gestures! It's good get some distance from a subject and come back to it with new skills, and fresh eyes. Keep it up!

Really nice work!

These are excellent, really beautiful work!