random pieces please crit

[Smith]

Hey everyone,
Thanks to help from members I "think" I have a handle on getting images posted. So I'll start fresh with a few things in varied mediums. Please,please critique. Any help will give me more focus on where & how to improve. I plan to submit some other studies and sketches later so a very big thank you ahead of time. :thumbsup:

This you may have already seen but I wanted to put all these in one thread.
http://img15.exs.cx/img15/7979/golfinblackc6.jpg

This is a marker rendering.
http://img51.exs.cx/img51/6339/boot072504.jpg

Another graphite piece
http://img67.exs.cx/img67/88/selfimage2.jpg

Verdaccio Rembrandt copy (oil) including full picture of charcoal and canvas. The detail image is much farther along in the process.
http://img67.exs.cx/img67/2469/Rembrandtcopy1.jpg http://img70.exs.cx/img70/6137/rembrandtsphoto.jpg

Finally, a few charcoal hand studies hightened with white on toned paper and a figure study in graphite.
http://img56.exs.cx/img56/4580/handstudy1.jpg
http://img60.exs.cx/img60/9757/handstudy3.jpg
http://img63.exs.cx/img63/3631/handstudy22.jpg
http://img58.exs.cx/img58/6784/malefigurestudy1.jpg

With Gratitude, :bow:

Smith

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Very good stuff. What kind of art education did you go through?
I personally don't think you need to ask for general crits here.

Maybe some things are a bit sloppy, but I don't know what it originally looked like.
The marker shoe for example ... did the sole of the shoe really look dented like that?

What are your plans? Do you have specific questions?
Maybe you should just start a sketchbook and keep updating it.
Can you maybe show something you did from imagination?

[emily g]

Hey, these are really good.

You're drawing from still-lifes : good
You're looking at old masters : good
You're drawing from life : good

Well, you're doing all the right things.
I would like to see some gesture sketches, and maybe some drawings that show how you construct the figure.

I especially like the hand studies.

Keep it up, you're on the right path,
emily