Croquis 2026-02-08

Hey, hope our doing well. Im and of new to gesture drawing so take some of what I have to say with a grain of salt. 

• First, the sketches of the wide angle photos look great, the overlaps and size differences produced by the camera lens are pretty well represented here. 


• Something I noticed that you could improve on is connecting the head to the neck. A specific example is the top right image. It took me a minute to figure out what was going on. Maybe it's just an odd angle of the reference, but to me it seems like the head is angled a little too far towards her back and too close to the shoulder behind it. At first I thought it was someone trying to crawl over another persons shoulder. A couple more to revisit are the top row third to the left and the bottom row second to the right. For the most part your heads attach to the necks well, so it's probably just something to think about when you draw from a reference that has an odd POV or pose. 


• Lastly, I wanted to say that it is very impressive that you drew these seemingly without a light base sketch first. And btw, just an idea but it might help your future critiques if you number the sketches, that way nobody gets confused if you or anyone else happens to be talking about a specific sketch in a set

Keep up the great work! best wishes - PAD