Some help, please!

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Heeello, i´m spanish and this is the first time that i post here.
I am 20 years old.I draw because i love draw, it is my hobby. One day i will create my owns comics and concepts, not comercial, but first, i have to learn for my own.

Yesterdey, i saw this page in internet so this morning when i came from the university, i draw the first things that i imaginated.One of this pictures is in a topic of the forum ("draw future samurai", yess.. I love manga and japanese culture too :D ).

This are the images:

http://personales.ya.com/sanand/samurai.jpg

http://personales.ya.com/sanand/lanoche.jpg

I want critics... please! ,the torso i think is the wort that i draw, i know it!.

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these sketches are really good, i like the first one best, i can't see anything worng with these, just good! keep at it!:)

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About the 2nd image ... nice perspective you have there.
The person in the foreground doesn't quite work for me.
With that exaggerated perspective the guy in the middle ground looks many times bigger. Just compare the feet.

If you only look at the guy (or girl?) on the ground ... then the upper body looks too big.
I know the perspective is exaggerated ... but as I said ... it doesn't quite work for me

I think the biceps area of the standing guy's left arm is too short.
Elbow too close to the shoulder.
Because of the exaggerated perspective you'd have to draw that arm bigger I guess!?

But especially the 2nd image is intriguing!
Very good composition ... and I like the line quality.

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Thanks for yours critics... I really need it.

I redraw the samurai and i draw it in a diferent posistion. I think thats is more realistic.

I cant draw the right feet (his left). I cant imaginate it. This is the most dificult for me, draw things in perspective. You recomend me some metod to drow it (in general).

http://personales.ya.com/sanand/samurai2.jpg

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You have some extremely hard subjects there.
None of them look really far off.

If I were you I'd just make a quick rough sketch ... then look at it.
Ask yourself "how does it look?"
Do you find errors? If you find them ... draw a new version.
Generally your approach seems fine.

The pose thing is a different problem.
It's hard to come up with coherent poses. I can't really help there.
Usually you learn it by making studies ... life drawings, maybe gesture drawings.
Dunno

But what I wrote here doesn't sound as if it is what you need to hear.

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Oh yeah! I have never done the same draw two times, because i havent got anyone to told me my errors. Who i said before, this is the first time that i post in a forum my drawins.

For now, i try to start with a rought sketch!!

but one cuestion, how do you start the draw. Where?? For the head?, body?, skeleton? (I start whith the horizont line , then setup the height of the character (skeleton) and then start with the head).

Sorry for the cuestions (and my english),but i think that when i drow i commit a lot of errors.

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I moved away from the technical approach.
I make errors to. And then I fix them.

Maybe somebody knows a better approach.
But generally ... if I planned and used a more technical approach it turned out sterile and lifeless.
When I look at your images I think you should just practice seeing the errors.

One thing that helped (and still helps) me is critiquing other artists images.

Sorry if you expected something more helpful.
Maybe somebody else has better tips though!?