Chock Full o'Nuts [update: 21.12.09]

[DKHutcheson]

I've never had much a knack for sketching. I erase far too much, so I'll be doing much of my sketches in pen to help teach me to make less mistakes and get the idea across with less lines/time.

Crits are appreciated, as well as tips. : >
I'll update as much as possible.

(images moved to my second post)

[FourTonMantis]

All of these studies excellent, especially the portraits. Do more!

[DKHutcheson]

The first three were moved from my first post.

The nest are some gesture drawings, a quick eye study, and my sketch for the new teen challenge.

FourTonMantis, Thanks! I'll do some more soon. I did a lot more than I posted, I only uploaded my favorites, but I'll do more soon.

[DKHutcheson]

More hand sketches and some random sketches.

I'm getting a little better at not erasing so much.

[DKHutcheson]

Some portraits. I didn't do so well on the last three, but I'm proud of the first set.

[Collin Smiley]

Good hands, Good eyes I want to learn how to draw proper iris its verry hard for me, do you have any tips ?

[DKHutcheson]

collin6099, my best advice: get a mirror and study/draw your own eye. Great practice, and you can get really close and have lots of details. : )

[DKHutcheson]

Another little update.

The last one is something I'm messing with right now. I would like some help on balancing the values, if anyone's willing to.

[patrickdeza]

Nice sketches Dafn!
Your lines are pretty loose and yet your drawings are not flat.
You obviously have a good sense for volume.
Keep it up.

[Rob!T]

Your face studies are really good, you'll hit the wall soon and everyone will start commenting, just keep updating :)

[DKHutcheson]

I spent entirely too long on this. And the scanner ate it alive, but here it is.

[khnguyen]

Hey Dafn (Daphne)!!

So this is your sketchbook? Nice.

I'm enjoying all of the sketches/studies you did so far. I like all of the poses you drew, they're all so dynamic and fluid. The faces drawing and sketches are simple, yet they have a sense of substance to them. And your eyes studes!! Very lovely and expressive!!

For criticism, I know I shouldn't critique anyone on anatomy, for obvious reasons lol. But, about last last drawing, the ear seems to be positioned a bit too low on the face. But that could be due to the angle or the hair covering the rest of the ear, giving it that illusion.
BLAH, its probably just me.

Last, As a request, I want to see more digital sketches from you, they look great. I don't know why you don't post more on your sketchbook thread. lol.

P.S.: thanks for that last post on my sketchbook, it was VERY insightful and helpful. But, we'll see when I finish it, it's been a month since I used photoshop for digital painting, so everything is a bit hazy to me. Also, the experimental technique I used to paint that girl was horrendously slow and inefficient. And top of that, I'm taking a Technical Writing Class for my major right now, so it might a few weeks before you see that digital painting completed. But I will update whatever changes I've done for feedback.

[DKHutcheson]

I don't do too many digital sketches. I'll have to jump on that soon, it's one of my weakest points.

Just an eye study and my entry for the teen challenge.

[DKHutcheson]

A speed painting portrait and just some practice sketches. I'm finally getting a little better at blending.

I probably should have painted some absolute white and black in the portrait, but I'm a little fearful of using pure black and white.

EDIT: Forgot to add the silly eviro I tried. Still a weak spot for me.

[DKHutcheson]

Today has been just frustrating. Couldn't draw a thing. Started a nose study but stopped after only 2. I'll have more tomorrow or later today I guess. Just a very bland uninspired day. :shrug:

[DKHutcheson]

Now that I'm aware of reflected light, I see it everywhere. It's an odd sort of fascination, picking it out in life. It's become one of my favorite things, especially how the darkest shadows are right on it's edge. I'm such a loser. x D

Is it just me, but do those lips make an awkward frog face?

[JJacks]

That shaded figure in your last sketch is so soft and lovely. I'm very envious of the lips in that last page as well. Keep working, your sketches show so much great potential.

[YihyoungLi]

Great line quality in your sketches. I thought you were my age+ until I looked at your profile haha. The lips in your most recent post are very sumptuous. Like vampire lips. :P Plus your faces are really beautiful.

I have a couple suggestions:
Maybe you have realized this already, but some of your characters' nose bridges in a 3/4th-side pose seem too short. (This is contradictory to your characters in profile, which are fine.) While this may be accurate in some Asian/African persons, Caucasian/Indian/etc. usually have long nose bridges. I've adjusted one of your sketches to show you what I mean; hope you don't mind.
http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm237/YihLi/Untitled-1-1.jpg

Also, because the benefit of digital painting/drawing is the range of brush sizes, you may want to use larger brushes. So rather than shading a face as you would a pencil (lines melded together), you can use a larger brush (planes melded together). That can prevent the somewhat scratchy look in some of your pieces; your pieces will look cleaner later on.

[DKHutcheson]

JJacks, Thank you. : )

YihyoungLi, at first I didn't understand what you meant, but now I get it. I have a problem with judging the distance between the nose and eyes on 3/4 views; I must practice on that. Thanks for pointing it out. ♥

[DaStreets]

Great work here. The faces and eyes are spectacular. Keep posting more. Comment back if you want, thanks.

[harris-ejaz]

i love those studies at the top of the page

[DKHutcheson]

Dastreets and harris-ejaz, Thanks you guys. : )

Okay, so I'm going to a week long SCAD program this summer and I'm taking a short one week animation course there again.

Last year, I did The Fishboy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qBAzJGBHb4). This year, I want to do a follow up animation.

I revamped the character slightly, and now he carts around a dead ghost fish.
I'm unsure whether it should be upside down or as it is rightside up. I mean, it IS a dead fish. Suggestions welcome.

I'm not much of a cartoonist, but here it is.

[DKHutcheson]

Some speed paint environment practice. Both were about 30-40 minutes long. Read this awesome thing about composition last night. Figured I'd give it a little shot. Still hesitant to use colour.

[DKHutcheson]

Just a progress shot, crits welcome and encouraged.

[dawnusllaw]

For not having a knack for sketching you do very well :P I wish my lines were that clean! Keep it up!

[DKHutcheson]

I'm pretty excited about this one. I'm finally figuring out how to start a painting for myself.

[DKHutcheson]

This is as finished as I'm getting I think. I might polish it more later, but it was only meant as a speed painting.

[Artalus]

Your pen sketches are really good , I could never use a pen I love my eraser to much, but thats more power to ya . Anyways your paintings are really good I especially like the red one , the way you did the painting it makes it seem like a blured view of the person/demon almost like theres and intense heat around her. Are you useing a tablet and if so what kind is it I've been looking into getting one but I have no idea what to look for ?

By the way thanks for checking out my sketch book :)

[Jamie Romoser]

Your improving with every post!
Keep it up
till next time -Omerta

[DKHutcheson]

Artalus, I use a Medium sized Wacom Bamboo Fun. I love it. The only thing I've had trouble with is it won't work well over the net, there is an odd delay on oekaki and tegaki, but it's perfect for photoshop. ; ) It's served me well.

OmertA, you don't know how good it is to hear that. Thank you. ♥

[DKHutcheson]

A 30-40 minute speed portrait. It was a lot of fun actually.

[Fishpail]

I like how expressive the eyes in your works are; great work ; >>

[DKHutcheson]

Just a small update. A little discouraged, but I'll start doing more studies soon. I need to at least.

[DKHutcheson]

I did not truly appreciate the challenge of drapery until I tried it. It's a lot of fun, but very hard to get the folds accurate. I need to practice more.

The first one was a test sketch, to practice getting the folds correctly spaced and such. The second is still practice. The next couple I'm doing will be better.

Half the fun of all this is the sheet tacked up to my wall. Gives my room more umph.

[DKHutcheson]

Just some fun, a self portrait, and more drapery study attempts.
My first self portrait by reflection.

[DKHutcheson]

A snow leopard doodle and some still lives.

[DKHutcheson]

Didn't manage much today, but I'll be working on more after this. Focusing mostly on drapery stuff and still lives. A challenge as always.

[jigje]

Love your 'book Daph. Those drapery studies are fantastic. I just went through from the start and it is obvious that you are getting better each time you post. Look forward to more especially over at the portraits page.

[Jamie Romoser]

Ello DKHutcheson :^^:
You have an awsome start for your sketchbook!
Keep having fun drawing and painting -Omerta

[DKHutcheson]

: ) Found a "ball pit" ball in my room and decided to draw it for fun. Direct sphere study before jumping into imagined.

And another self portrait. Stylized my hair for fun.

[DKHutcheson]

For the Spartan Camp. : >

[IvoM]

Thanks for stopping by my sb, great stuff you got here; really admire your portraits and penciling, especially

[DKHutcheson]

Still life, a last minute addition to my portfolio. I need to do something else too, but I'm blanking on what. Only got a day left to make anything new for it.

Sorry if it's a little big.

[DKHutcheson]

Just a small update. Back from my SCAD trip. I have a lot of little sketches, but I haven't had the chance to upload them yet.

These are a few sketches from last night, all done in a different style (trying to find the best way of sketching for myself). The first and the last ones weren't all that great for me, smudged all over the place.

[DKHutcheson]

A self portrait and some stuff for the Spartan Camp.

[chuck18mp]

Very good!

[DKHutcheson]

One of my rare photoshop sketches. Having a lot of fun with this one. Hope to finish, but I'm done with it for tonight.

Watched the new Harry Potter movie. Alrightish. Had some great laughs though.

[aethyr]

It definitely looks like you've improved quite a bit since you've started this thread.

It seems to me like the hair in your self portraits is way too linear to look right. I find it helps a lot to block in the overall shape of the hair with straight lines. It's always easier to measure a straight line than a curved line so I find it easier judge the shapes that way. It looks like you did this with your drape studies and it's the same principle.

One other thing I find is that your reflection light should never be as light as your main light when drawing from life with one light source.

Hope you don't mind the criticism. You're way better than I was at you're age tho.

[DKHutcheson]

Oh no, I adore criticism. : ) Always happy to see it.

I don't quite understand what you mean, my hair being too linear. I get the rest of what you said, just not that bit. The terminology.

Which stuff are you refering to about the reflected light bit? So I have an example. : > Everything in general, or are there specific ones that show it the most?

[Strassenpenner08]

Hey, I like your sketches ..... your faces are awesome °_°

[aethyr]

I'm not sure why this double posted but I'll go ahead and use it since its here >.>;;

The reflected light thing was I noticed in a few things but the one that really caught my eye was that sphere study you did. Although it might be a worse example because depending on how close the light was I've seen some spheres with intense reflection lights. Anyway a good rule of thumb is never look at areas in shadow while drawing/rendering them. You should look at the light and feel out your dark areas, because in real life your eyes are attracted to the light parts of they're looking at. Having a reflection light as light as your main light is basically asking them to compete for attention which tends to flatten things out.

This is the self portrait I was referring to.
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=706766&stc=1&d=1245882910

Basically I was trying to explain that you were doing an unnecessary amount of work in the hair way too soon, and because of that you were getting off track. There is almost no reason to add substantial detail to areas not affected by light. It's sort of like the reflection light thing. By looking at the dark area of your hair and trying to find the details you end up making it look like a lot of lines instead of a mass of hair. You lost the hair's structure, if that makes sense.

I tried to photoshop your self portrait(attached) to give you an idea of what I am saying. I basically simplified it so that it made a little more sense to my eyes. Anyway since I'm doing 1 thing a day anyway I'll try to take photos the next time I work in graphite and make them into an animation cause I think it'll help explain way better. When I get it done I'll try to link to it here.

Either way I hope that helps.

[Pixie Trick]

Wonderful sb! Your pencils are quite nice. Studies are great too.

Just some thoughts, but perhaps you might try drawing with some other mediums. Pen, charcoal or whatever. Mix things up a little. You look a bit like you're doing a paint by number with pencil.. copy and paste?.... just set in your ways or something... I don't know how to properly say it. Another thing to try would be to do some b&w studies in Ps, or a colour study from life. Black and white in Ps lets you work with what you know (pencil in this case) and transfer is a bit more easily.

[DKHutcheson]

: > Oh, I have been very lucky lately. ♥ Some great feedback and advice!

@ aethyr, Admittedly, the reflected light in the ball study is a bit light, though a bit of it is because the ball was semi see through. I will take it into consideration, what you said about feeling out my dark areas through the light. It is a very interesting way to put that.
Ha, you're absolutely right about the hair in that portrait though. x D Truth be told, I didn't do the shading on that while I was in front of a mirror, I was too busy watching Hercules. The over detailedness of it was mostly for fun, I'd lost interest in it and was more doodling than anything, but now that I look at it, the lighting is way way off.
Thank you for explaining things to me.

@ Pixie Trick, not sure what you mean about my pencils looking like painting by numbers, unless you mean how I mark out areas between lights and darks in my non-shaded drawings.
I have done a few color studies from life in ps, but I'm terribly embarrassed by them. I'll be sure to start posting my future ones. And i'll try doing some black and white (;life studies?) in ps. I do already do studies on ps in black and white, just no life ones yet.
I am very comfortable with my pencils, sometimes it's hard to get me out of my comfort zones. I don't use charcoal since it's so expensive (there are only two art shops near where I live and at both the charcoal is nearly $5-7 dollars a piece), but I'll start doing some pen drawings. : ) I think I can handle that.

Thank you both so much. You really made my night.
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I haven't drawn in days, and I had the urge last night to draw aimlessly.
I did these with little in mind, so excuse me if the anatomy or anything is off, thought I'd still love to hear your thoughts. : >

(All were drawn from the photos provided by Hel Looks (http://www.hel-looks.com/index.php))

[Pixie Trick]

I think what I'm picking up on is that you're very much in your comfort zone. And really, I just found some crayons I hadn't used for years just for fun a while ago. That's the most important part: fun. :D And don't worry about the hideous still lifes. Practice makes perfect. Still life, is just something from real life -> car, spoon, leaf. If you show the studies, ugliness and all, then other people better qualified than me may have a chance to help you then.

In terms of drawing people, you might check this out if you haven't already: Posemaniacs (http://www.posemaniacs.com/)

[DKHutcheson]

I know about posemaniacs. : ) I used to use it all the time for gestures, but after so long it gets boring with all the same old poses.

I love drawing with crayons! x D They are a lot of fun indeed.

; D Thanks for the advice.

[DKHutcheson]

Just some pen practice and something I've had over a week. It was the start of my non referenced nose thing, but I lost steam with it.

So that's Tiger Woods, Heath Ledger's mouth, my hand, and what should've been a flashlight.
I know Tiger's eyes look weird. x ) And I know that his ears look weird also, but they looked weird in the photo too.

The old woman was just a spur of the moment doodle.

I hate and love pens. Though I'd love to be shot of them.

[DKHutcheson]

I seriously doubt I'll get anything else done today. Not with all the stuff I need to do.

I did this without a reference, just to test my memory. Crits on it would be significantly helpful.

EDIT: I lied. I was able to squeeze in some thumbnails.

[aethyr]

Oooh I'll bite.

But first a disclaimer: I don't know that much about "anatomy"; I have taken a figure drawing class but where I go to school we focus heavily on drawing shapes, not muscle/bone. My Professor's mentality is "what's the point of being able to tell what the muscles/bones are if you can't actually see them in life drawing."

That said, I'm a big fan of anatomy and drawing from the mind even if he isn't so I'll try to help you out.

The waist seems disproportional to the shoulders.

The left arm has some issues, It looks "bent" or dislocated Like there is no bone keeping it straight underneath the skin or the joint came out of socket. It's also off in muscle structure somehow. something in the bicep or deltoid. The Bicep would connect to pretty much the top of the upper arm and the deltoid shouldn't be covered? by the chest.

I really dislike the dark areas in between the arms and shoulders especially the point.

Something looks odd about the abs but I'm not sure how to describe it.

I don't know if you've seen him on here or not but you should check out mentler on this forum, he's pretty amazing with anatomy studies from memory; although I think he exaggerates some things.

Love the fact that you're doing the anatomy studies. Oh and thanks for checking out my SB.

[DKHutcheson]

Oh, for a couple of weeks I had that same mentality, but that leaves a lot of room for inaccuracy. So I'm trying to tackle it all head on. It's just extremely hard to find good references.

Thank you very much. : ) You're right the waist is quite thin. I'll spend some time studying the upper arm muscles and the pecs and see where I went wrong.

I went back and checked and it seems I put the abs in the wrong place and a little out of shape.

I'll be sure to check out mentler.

And, again, thank you. ♥

[DKHutcheson]

Trying to do a decent enviro. Should I make my values more extreme, or does this look fine?

[elddonnemar]

Hi, thanks for dropping by. I really love your pencil sketches.

And I do think there should be a bit more contrast in your latest environment study, as well as some texture to the sky. Right now it's hard to tell what the forms are because it's so dark.

[Jeff V]

Thanks for stopping by my sketchbook. :)

I think your facial stuff generally looks great. You're torso anatomy is off here and there, but you already know this. You've improved a lot since your first post, so just keep it up. You're at a higher level than me, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

[DKHutcheson]

@ elddonnemar, I've added some clouds, and lightened the ground a bit more. Didn't realize it was so dark, was much more grey on my other computer. Thank you. : >

@ Jeff V, Oh, anatomy. I hope I can impress my pre-med aspiring friends with my soon to be learned knowledge of the human body. x ) Thank you very much, though I don't think myself to be on any higher level than anyone. We're all here learning, and we never stop. : > Thank you.

[DKHutcheson]

Wow, made it to page three. : > Further than I thought I get.

A rough outfit design I might tinker with a little more, and a rough colorization of the environment I'm doing. Nothing too big, and I don't want to bore you guys with my generic anatomy studies.

[FiftyFortunes]

Thanks for dropping by.

I am enamored with your portraits. You have a very nice way of seeing and rendering value. Any good advice?

[DKHutcheson]

Advice? My best advice, I suppose, would be to practice and be patient with them. And when doing studies or anything, really pay attention to what your learning, and know what you're trying to learn. Aimless copying doesn't really help at all. : > Pay close attention to where shadows fall and the depth of their values. x ) For some reason, it's riveting for me, but I'm a loser. And have fun. Portraits are the devil if you're not having fun with them.

[asomatous]

Thanks for visiting my sketchbook! :)

It's amazing that you've improved so qickly after two pages! your pencil and digital paint work are especially well done, although perhaps your work is a little tight and stiff all around. Some more looser or gestural drawings would be a real treat to see!

[DKHutcheson]

asomatous, I'll try my best to loosen up. Guess I've just been trying too hard. : > I'll try to start doing loose gestures.

Just messing around with my pathetic version of Painter. Non-referenced speed portrait.

[DKHutcheson]

Another speedie from my lame Painter, before it randomly stopped working.

This one was also non-referenced, and obviously, more serious than the last one. Mostly just experimenting shading from white to grey, since I never do that.

I know it's really bright, and her eyes are a bit on the small side, but still, I like it quite a bit. I may tinker with it more in photoshop.

[DKHutcheson]

I've been holding out on this for a while, I didn't want to post it while I was still trying to find a direction for it.

It's a follow-up piece to an older one I did, the Great Mouse Detective. This one is called the Great Mouse Discovery, in which Gilliander the Mouse and Doc. "Sideburn" Arnold discuss what exactly Gilliander found. The wall behind them, excluding the tree roots, will remain white.

I had to mess with the settings to a ridiculous extent just so you could see the whole picture. The scanner I have with me is complete crap. I'll go dig up my good one when I finish it. For now the contrast and brightness are all messed up, but at least you can see most of it.

For those interested, I attached the Great Mouse Detective one too.

[Jamie Romoser]

Wow! man great update i love the design
Looking forward to seeing more bud
Till next time -Jamie

[DKHutcheson]

Thanks, OmertA.

Didn't get much done digitally today, but I've gotten a good bit further on my Mouse Discovery piece. It's late now and I have senior pictures to prepare for, so I won't scan that till later tomorrow.

[jigje]

Woo hoo, Dafne's on fire.

[batcustard]

let me first preface this post with: You float around in that evershifting ether I like to call: "somewhere near my skill level." This presents problems when talking about somebodies work as a whole. Because I don't think I have especially valuable information (Old knowledge passed down from the art gods.) But I don't have much bowing or groveling to do either. Lets just think of all ^ that as me tipping my hat.
When I look at your work it brings to mind something I managed to bottle safely in the far left corner of my thoughts. A neuroscientist at my Old university was talking about art and art-making. He said that there was a certain part of your brain that doesn't self regulate as well when you are young, producing an overflow of some specific neurotransmitter. This overactive production creates unrest. (remember being 13?) Anywhoo people deal with the unrest in different ways. The strange thing here has to do with a sort of orbital effect of that neurological missfire.

Our unrest helps override our fear of failure. That was his explanation of the rapid development of younger artists.

Not sure if its legit, Neuroscience is clearly still some backwater form of alchemy at the moment.

The point I have probably already beaten to death is that you should be aware of what you are avoiding and why. Clearly you are trying to control your proportions in a lot of these sketches. Thats all well and good, except when it starts to limit you. Sometimes it is more important to draw what you want to draw than to get it right. You have been avoiding heavy forshortening and extreme posing. I think it might have something to do with your proportion obsession. Anyways: great studies, thanks for the comment.

[batcustard]

beautiful cloth in that second mouse picture.

[Quinn Simoes]

Really like your pencil drawings, the drapery studies on page 2 are very well done.

Keep up the hard work!

Quinn

[DKHutcheson]

batcustard, I guess the reason I avoid foreshortening and extreme posing is because none of my teachers ever really taught it. Always been afraid of getting off on the wrong foot. Guess I'll throw caution to the wind though. Thanks for saying all that. It was helpful.

Quinn Simoes, Thank you. : )

[DKHutcheson]

My first master study. I kind of failed, but I had a lot of fun doing it. I didn't eyedrop any of the colors. : )

I spent about an hour and 30 minutes on this, when photoshop crashed. This was the last progress shot I got.

[luvazquez]

Nice work!

I agree that you should definitely post more digital work, since you're obviously getting comfortable with the medium, and it shows.

Love your sketches, especially the eyes. I'm gonna have to start attending figure drawing classes again, especially seeing how well it serves everyone here at CA.

Keep it comin'!

-lu

[DKHutcheson]

luvazquez, I wish I had the chance to join a figure drawing class. That'd be great. I'll try working more digitally, I wish I could speed up the process of learning it. x D Thank you.

Last night I ended up sketching from the Sound of Music, and these are some sketches from memory I did just a little while ago. Mostly Julie Andrews, but there's one of the Captain and Leisl. The pose is from "Confidence" which has to be my favorite song from that movie. She just keeps jumping down the road, it's so fun. Do they have any resemblance?

[Plumber]

Thought I stopped by and thanked you for checking out my sketchbook! :)

I see improvement in these already, good work! The things you do and posted here seem like the right thing to do for you, so keep at it! :)
Very, very good animals!

[jigje]

Too long between posts Daph. Hope all is ok.

[DKHutcheson]

Hey guys, very small update, just something I've been fiddling with.

I know it's been a whole 2 months but college work is practically drowning me right now. x O I probably won't be doing much art related stuff, other than my photography, and nobody really wants to see that.

I'll pop in whenever possible, I really need to update my self portrait thing, but for now, art related time is looking pretty dry.

I am doing some costume design for our Halloween performance of The Masque of the Red Death, so I'm excited about that, I will post those pictures when I get something done. ♥

Hope all is well with everyone. I'll stop by again when I can.

[LtPlissken]

You have excellent shading with your pencils and your digital is also developing in a good direction.

[jakobweiq]

cool :lifedrawing:

love them love them.

[DKHutcheson]

It's been ages since I've been here. I've finally got the time to keep this up again.

I haven't drawn seriously since I left, closest I've touched art has been in my photography class, and I'm excited to come back and work on things again.

I doodled this, trying to reacquaint myself with photoshop.

It's fab to be back.

[DKHutcheson]

Going to end my day with this. : > I started this after my little warm up sketch in the post before this. It took a lot of drafts for the pose, but this is the cut of it I got anything really done with. It's my character Drite again, it's fun to see how he looks versus that one I did months ago. xD (a couple of posts up)

If anyone has any advice one how to pattern clothing (I need to plaid the hat) I'd LOVE to hear it. ♥

Have you heard Winston Churchill sing? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW6jW9y59JY&annotation_id=annotation_412913&feature=iv)

[DKHutcheson]

Some 30-60 second gestures and some quick sketching from Ever After.

I need something to shock me into this again, I feel like I haven't improved at all. Just gotta keep going at it I guess. It's hard for me to get out of my safe zones.

Any good exercises that can help me with that? Practice I know, but it's hard to aimlessly throw rocks into the sky and hope you hit a bird.

[Vibeness]

Awesome art you have there! :D

[Chaser226]

You're doing the right studies to move forward. Keep doing the gesture drawings to really get some mileage. I would especially pay attention to getting your proportions corrected as it is something that sticks out in your work so far. No matter how good you render, if the proportions are off, then thats all anyones going to see.

[DKHutcheson]

Chaser226, I'll be sure to spend more of my time studying proportions specifically. : ) Thank you for the help!

Before I left I had started studying anatomy (specifically the arm) but I never posted it and I forgot most of what I learned about it. I switched to the leg, new ground, new interest. I'll eventually work my way back up. (Some of the proportions seem off cause of A. the angle of the pictures I was working from didn't translate well, and B. the ever popular human error. xD)

Also, more gestures from Ever After. Just a couple of seconds per each.