Peter's Sketchbook

[Peter]

I think the reclining girl you did a fine job on, her face is decent and her hand is pretty good too. Also her body, well it may look like that, but you can also embellish a body just like a face, jeff does this a lot in quick sketch. He pumps the shapes of the shoulders, breasts, waist (narrows them), stylizes the shapes of the legs and angles the feet, making it look quite mechanical, but sexy. 

Main issue is just her bicep strangely narrows before going into the forearm. Also her leg that is lifted, kinda strange how its curving into the foot, and the contour of her back... Like i would omit the shadow you have thats casting, just shade a little around where the terminal starts, then indicated with a flowing line the contour, and i think that'd look much more appealing, but thats a taste thing. 

Glad youre doing the Gibson... The orc, very stiff, try spending more time in the loose sketching phase, finding a really really really cool pose, and not just first one or even the first 10. Our good friend Gregokari has a great exercise to get better at pose drawing from imagination 

https://www.deviantart.com/gregor-kari/a...-802236170

The rest are in the notes i left on these critiques and im happy to beat with the stick because i struggled for a very long time drawing attractive women, still not perfect at it, but after a lot of scathing feedback over the years i learned what works and yes... Due to subtelty, it is probably the hardest subject to draw well

Thanks for all the feedback :)

I feel like I'm slowly getting better at drawing attractive women but man it's such a grueling process! Feel like I'm going at a snails pace haha

I actually really like what you did on the reclining female pose. Such a good way to vignette a pose!

That link you sent me are they all invented or are they quick drawings from ref? I'm assuming the first but wasn't 100%.

I feel like I'm at a comfortable level with heads. They can still be improved by alot but I feel like the foundation is there which isn't in my figure drawings. Perhaps I'm best just focusing on things one at a time rather than doing multiple thnings at once like I'm doing since I do not have enough time in a week to do everything that I want.

What do you find works best for yourself?