A few Drawings

[tomdon]

Hey

Heres a few drawings I have done in a drawing class I have once a week, as part of my uni course. Just looking for a bit of feedback, maybe sugestions of where I can go from here. I find myself always torn in the way I draw, I tend to prefer being very loose and leaving a lot to the viewer. The problem is I often think my drawings look better when I put more into the line and removing a lot of the excess "expression" :\ .
Anywho heres a few pics:

http://itsabeast.com/datas/users/1-bones.jpg
http://itsabeast.com/datas/users/1-foot.jpg
http://itsabeast.com/datas/users/1-hand.jpg
http://itsabeast.com/datas/users/1-man-sat.jpg

[dadamafia]

i see you have been woking on your anatomy, cool beans for that. i agree that the excessive expression kinda strays from the beauty. just try to have a more controlled approach to shading and try not to work as sporadically (eg. alot of the shading lines an so forth seem to have no real purpose). when you perfect the basics of it, you can start putting in more expression in your work and i am sure you would like the results as you are now more informed and a more knowledgeable artist. for now try to get out a little of the expressive and focus more on understanding the body. just put more thought into every line... not too much though. ignore me if you think i am talking rubbish.

[danteort]

Really try to focus on having every mark you make contribute to the overall form of the figure. If you have no reason for making that mark, don't make it. You have to always be thinking about the fact that you're trying to convey a 3D figure on a 2D surface. It's not about contour and "shading." It's about sculpting a three-dimensional form with your pencil/charcoal.

One thing that helps in this is making sure that every mark actually FOLLOWS the form. If the form is a cylinder, then your marks should do nothing but suggest the roundess of it. If you start squiggling every which way, then the viewer begins to not understand exactly what it is you're describing.

You need to nail the fundamentals before trying to be "expressive." Your personal style will ALWAYS come through, even when you're doing your absolute best to be straightforward and "correct." You can't force expressiveness, so don't try.