Peter's Sketchbook

[Peter]

keep fightin the good fight peter!

For the 3 hrs pose, his hands are really small, and his forearm thats in shadow also looks tiny because you could add some lineweight to indicate where the arm is coming back. in some areas you indicate like the patella, going too hard on the values. Also make sure your pencil is sharpened well, i dont think those visible lines in the background shading are the most desireable, it seems jeff goes for a smoother gradient with a well sharpened pencil and i never see thin hard lines.

The way you indicated the abdomen is strange too, it seems as if its jammed into the rib instead of the ribs covering it, like you have it closer to being correct on our right side, but maybe this ref will explain it better ;)

https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/anato...tSmall.jpg

Thanks for always giving me critiques man :) only wish I could be more helpful to you.

Pretty much everything you said I realized myself (and so did Jeff) after I completed the drawing. Struggled with it from start to finish (this was my 3rd attempt).

Don't know why I'm still struggling with my edges, especially soft edges. I'm using the side of my pencil when laying them in but I musn't be doing it correctly, thinking I might just study a bunch of lay-ins from Jeff and just practice copying his soft edges until I can do it properly since it's bugging the crap out of me.

Thanks for the link, I'll give it a look and study from it. :)