Here are my submission for critique. I felt the first couple were not very good trying to follow along and maintain a painterly style. On the later ones I mixed some techniques to help paint the portraits better. I also decided to render them just a little more other than a rough painterly style. I wouldn’t mind trying to figure out how to design and paint the shapes so they have more appeal. Any critiques are welcome.

Here are some of my 5 minute paintings. I really like the repetition of his lessons. I feel doing a bit of self critique between them helps. I find hair to be very difficult. Critiques are welcome.

Hey Bill! Great job on these, these are coming along. You're getting a hang of the concepts that Ahmed is teaching. What I'd say is a few things. Your edges, values, overall shapes, and drawing could use some work. To start with #5 30 minutes, the silhouettes of the shapes don't quite feel like "fruit". It feels more like a 2d shape right now, that resembles fruit. What you can do is make the drawing a bit more accurate, as well as being more intentional with your overlaps. The second thing I'd say is that your colors could be more saturated / varied and your values could go a bit wider. I'd recommend looking at David Cheifetz's paintings linked below. In yours, the shapes and colors are almost there but there's a lack of variety and subtle in yours that makes it way less convincing. Looking at David's he has a lot of texture, and a a wide variety of colors while also having clear definite shapes. To fix this in yours, I'd say is watch @Morgan Weistling's video How to Draw Like a Painter. In it he talks about the importance of focusing on your drawing before anything else. Once you have a solid drawing, the "painting" side of it takes care of itself.

Here are my submissions for the assignment for the MedCube. I’m still working on the floating cube but just found out I was painting on the wrong layer. So now the underdrawing and perspective grid are mixed in with the paint. Any critiques or feedback for improvement is appreciated.

I wish there was a bit more guidance with the photoshop use. I'm pretty lost as to which brushes to use like yeah I downloaded them but which is useful for what :/

Hey Bill, This is a very nice drawing, your control over your values is pretty good. If you want to push yourself a little, start thinking about the structure under the eye and it's surroundings. I did a very crude paint-over of your eye to kind of show you what I mean. I didn't use any reference so it's not perfect. I darkened areas that would be in shadow because of the brow and the socket it is sitting in. Sometimes the reference is so Photoshoped and processed that everything looks kind of slick and flat. Also, pay attention to the pupil, it's kind of counter intuitive, but the pupil is lighter across from the highlight because its actually a bowl shape. Anyway, I hope this helps :)