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For the clothes, keep in mind that you don’t need to copy what you see. You should make sure that your drawings read properly. So use the clothing to help communicate the action and make changes where necessary.

To really pull this off effectively, you need to understand how to create appealing shapes and apply this to the clothing also.

It's such a liberating words, thank you so much Swen!

love those skinny lower legs =)

hello Cappottorosso! Nice to see you and best of luck with the challenge!

the main goal for now is to make very simple drawings, just separate darks from the lights and keep the proportions in check - easier said than done =) shading is tempting, but I guess it's far to early for me at the moment. Got to learn how to walk before trying to run

love this one so much! Navajo boy, photo referenced, as usual

the shading did me no good and it was a colossal waste of time but i liked it anyway. Love that moment when the pencil fills the dark areas, it's magical

it was an awesome photo, go to draw it again when I get a little better

Tibetian princess Leia look-alikes

Vyacheslav Tikhonov

cool headwrap and a huge pain to draw all this folds - but so much fun as well!

nice to see your new drawings, those warriors and sumo wrestlers look very expressive even drawn in just a few lines! How would you recommend to solve the clothes problem? They usually mess up the shape of the body, at least when I'm at it.

Hey Skeplin,nice to see you!
It's great that you draw every day, it along helps a lot! Your pictures have that feeling of good humor about them, keep it up!

not much this week but I don't drop it, yay!

I've found that most inspiring faces can be found among old photos of native americans (indians). They have that unique and genuine feeling about them. Aslo, so very calm. A pleasure to draw them

this one is a portrait of the actor I adore, Vladimir Mihailovich Zeldin. Great man.
Passed away on his 102 year of life, he'd been acting on stage (at 102 !!!) to the very last moments.

another great actor, loved by many people, Oleg Dal. Such a beautiful face!

this one is after a famous retro photo of a girl riding a tiny bycicle. she's such a joy to look at.

very strong and unique face. I guess I should try to draw him again when I get better at this.

thank you Sanne!
I think I've learned that if you do something, you do get better at it, and that effort always pays off both in terms of quality of drawing and self respect. And that it's easier to draw if you hold you sketchbook vertically and hold your pencil as you would hold a brush when you're painting a wall =)
thank you for poiting out the cartoonish look, I'll keep that in mind and will work on more fluid lines. Realistic portraits look so awesome!

absolutely love pictures with animals. So charming and alive!

i got to like my sketchbook paper after all. I thought it's kind of too fluffy to draw nice acurate lines but it turned out just fine when I changed the way I hold my pencil.

I'm starting this topic to share sketches and hopefully progress in drawing people. My goal is to draw realistic portraits and I'm at the very beginning of this road. I'm struggling with a habit of drawing very small faces (as a thumbnail small) which look like identical twins. I'd like to learn how to draw people in all awesome varieties of their features, beacause it's such a beautiful thing. Daily work makes wonders so that's what I'll do. Any critique will be welcomed and greatly appreciated!

day 1 20 min

day 2 10 min

I love the feeling of tension and movement in them. Makes me want to take a pencil and draw something as well! thank you for sharing this =)

though i'm just a beginner and can'r exactly have a word on the matter but i can't help but notice how your sketches have improved compared to the sketches you posted back in 2016! they're more angular now and they look strong and expressive. I love the floor in perspective (or are they mats?). Love the two-figure poses. always difficult to draw those but yours are sooo good =)

Expressive and alive! Looks nice to me =)