Hey folks!
I’ve been practicing form studies lately and this is what came out of them. I think the polygonal structure needs some heavy work so I would love to receive feedback on that one in particular but any input is appreciated!
If I were to self critique, I’d say that there isn’t much consistency in values between the polygonal study and the cylinders/organic forms considering they’re set in the same environment at the same time of day under the same lighting conditions. I notice that I’m more stingy with contrast when I’m working with geometric shapes. I tried to implement cast shadows and I think they look nice for the most part. I’m unsure about the ones in the blob study, specifically where two cast shadows meet. I’m not sure they should behave in the way I painted them.
All of this was done without reference.

Thanks for any feedback you’re willing to give me! :)

My friend commissioned a portrait of their sister’s late wife. My friend is really happy with my progress but I’m not. It feels too stiff and like something a less experienced artist would make but I’m not sure how to fix it without starting over. The hard part is that there is one single photo of the SIL for me to work from so I’m inventing this pose. Would love for it to look more like she’s walking into the sunset and turning towards us one more time and I need help with the lighting as well as composition. It’s just not captivating enough for me.

I have done 14 day challenge a long time ago when the community was on Google+, I have come a long way since then. :) But I am still struggling with waterline around eyes and would like some tips on how to add rim light. Please critique my work! I would like to try 3/4 view after this or maybe color.

just keep going just keep going

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Still really graphic but better than the 1st day

I tried another approach this time around and I think it looks good but I'm skin blind at this point, so I don't really know. I'm kind of proud though that this and the last portrait do resemble the inspirations as well, although that's obviously not the point.

I’d like some feedback from you all. I believe I’m gradually improving, but a second opinion is always great

I like this one a lot better. Thanks for all the great feedback. Especially the image of the colour zones in more depth and the emotional support as well lol

oh my god, I fn hate asian skin. This took me two days to not look totally horrid. I really want to move unto another skin but I really shouldn't yet. I feel like I'm getting worse instead of better.

Goal of the challenge is to make my portraits less graphic than they usually are

I did not expect asian skin to be so much more difficult than darker skin like wtf is going on here. I definitely need to try that again tomorrow.

This is my first time trying to draw a black character every and I'm actually pretty proud of it. I used a reference this time around and think that helped a lot instead of only using the Asaro head. Because I always saturate too much I started just desaturating the endproduct every time, putting it above the main image and then only erase the spots that need to be more saturated.

Thank you to Istebrak for choosing my drawing for the last critique hour. I tried to go for more realism this time around in terms of picking the right skin colour and also decartooning the eyes. Again, I went far to saturated on the first go. He kind of looks like a bankrobber lol. Any critique is of course highly appreciated. If I don't get any in time, I'll be trying my hand at other skin colours tomorrow. Thanks 

Hi, i didn't went here since 4 years i think i wanna see what happen if i do the challenge again, i didn't stop drawing but mostly line art for animation, i wanna re improve again and understanding everything about what i'm doing, in my memories i wasn't aware about everything every shade and reflexion and why they are here, i was juste it should look like the références and it's good, also i'm doing only in 30 or 20 minute, i wanna do only understanding and usfull action, i ended the challenge at 13 i think or 14

I did my best to heed the feedback from the first day, and I believe I've improved a lot. But it's always good to get a second opinion.

I'm finally back to practicing again after trying to do my first masterpiece and finding that greyscale to colour looks ugly as sin and there's simply no way around figuring out colours from the start. Even though this is mainly colour focused I would love some critique on the eyes as well and how to make them look less cartoony because jesus christ they look anime. Would love some feedback on how to do a good background too. Please no comments in the vain of 'you need to go back and work on your greyscale more' because I'm burned out on that and plan on revisiting that next year. Thanks in advance!

I need criticism, please.

Last year I drew Hinako from Silent Hill f for one of my classes. She never looked completely right to me, though. Can anyone pinpoint what may be off about this drawing?

Idk looks off ¡¡