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[pnate]

Like others are saying, nice job on those anatomy studies! Keep up the applications and you'll be conquering everyone. A quick crit on the environment for the challenge; in terms of scale and composition, I think you nailed it. The values are all very high though, I think it maybe could have used a few more areas of contrast to make that center light coming through the hole much more powerful. A couple of studies on those waves would have probably also pushed the realism a lot farther, since light passing through a wave has a very distinct effect on the color.

Actually, as a general crit, and I know this is unrealistic for some people who don't have the time because of other responsibilities, school, job, etc, but if you do studies on every aspect of your challenge entries that you don't feel completely confident in, the results will be way more advanced. For example, maybe for the next one, after you have a rough sketch of what you want to do, make a list of studies for every part of the piece that you aren't sure you can pull off (the colors, the texture of the materials, the pose, etc) and do some serious studies for each part. I guarantee you you'll level up by miles just by doing that piece. Keep it up man! It's awesome just to see you taking part in the challenge each week :)