25 minute drawing 3.29.2024

Hello again, Iris.

Nicest job on your sense of forces, spaces, relationships, and tones and the whole. Yet still, I'm still not too craziest in your severe lack of line confidence yet. How would you care to go ahead with just our interactive drawing tutorial here on this site?

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My hat's off to you and your most dutiful journey.

Great pose. You simplified the gesture very effectively, pushing its geometry and volumn, while keeping the natural anatomical flow of the body (a bit sad the upper foot didn't fit on the page).

On the hip and the leg I think your shadow values are off, overemphasize details and break the roundness of the thigh. I don't think she is supposed to look that bony. I think the background leg should be in darker shadows (? I dont remember the reference that exactly), which would help to give the shadows on the foreground leg some context and would preserve the overall volume a bit better.

I think your line quality on the solid body parts has still a bit of room to grow, but I love the lines you chose for the hair, as they clearly make a step towards the abstract, which perfectly encapsulates the random atmospheric texture of free flowing hair, and adds an extra touch of playfulness to the gesture.

OK, on second thought I would revise when I said, that your line quality on the solid body part needs improvement. I think you did make a very small and easily fixable mistake though: You scanned in your image on maximum dpi setting on the scanner. The effect is that your image is displayed huge and overmagnified, in a scale, that you did not intend while drawing. That makes it hard for the viewer to take up the overall composition, and it magnifies the slightest insecurities in your lines.

Easy 10 second fix: Find the button that controls the dpi on your scanner and switch the setting from max to min. That usually works best for hand drawn stuff, as the image will be displayed at roughly the size that you saw it, when you worked at it.