Thanks so much Danet. I’ll be sure to check out Mattesi and Houston’s tutorials! I’m partial to Loomis bc I already know the basic proportions of the Loomis head and how to measure things out and where to place features. But I’m unsure how to adapt this for the skull. I know certain basic measurements will be the same, but as for how to adjust for the features, not sure.

Hi Braydon Good job on getting all those muscles into the skeleton. They are all there and most of them in the right places. I see a few mistakes in where you have attached some of the muscles. For example the trapezius originates on the base of the skull, a bit lower than where you put it. The sternocleidomastoid inserts into the mastoid process of the skull. (You can feel this process behind your ear) a bit lower and to the front of where you put it. Also check your lats and abs, especially in the side view. I wonder what your studying process is. Trying to add muscles onto a skeleton is quite hard, I usually try to copy from a 3D model first (Proko’s are great), then trace some real pictures, then I go back to my copies to see if I need to adjust or change anything, and after all that I try to draw them from imagination. This helps to understand the form of these muscles. I imagine them a bit like worms, or even horns sometimes. I also focus on a few muscles only. Maybe two or three. I also look a lot and draw over the Houdon model. You can find some images of a corrected version by Scott Eaton. One last thing, colour coding helps me a lot. hope this helps, let me know if you have any questions. Dani

Hi Just a quick note on your own feedback. I feel you’re so hard on yourself. Here is something you can try which might help. Make your feedback a preparation for your next iteration (draw it again and again by the way don’t just stare at it for hours lol) for example, instead of: 2-The wrist is completely wrong (has no 3D aspect to it), even though I know the wrist has a rectangle shape to it I still managed to mess it up.  simply write this: 2-Make the wrist more dimensional, use a rectangle. Your feedback on 4 is much better. Much kinder and useful. Another thing, when you ask for feedback it is useful to add the reference you used, so we can check. Unless this is from imagination of course. If it is, I would try to use reference first. Hope this helps Dani

My bad for the confusing words, Im not sure what the term Im reffering to but wow, I really appreciate going as far as to redraw my drawing and explaining things in detail. Thank you. I am aware of these convergence, but I keep forgetting it. lol.

Thank you! Will definitely work toward this.

Hi @silentmoonss , no worries, I love to talk about these things. Ím happy to help. i believe the problem is that you got the pose right but when you exaggerated, you just drew the same pose in a more extreme way. This works sometimes, but not in this case, I think that pulling her torso down to the right would be super uncomfortable, and she might even fall. So we have to change the pose to compensate for the exaggeration. This might seem super complicated, but luckily we all have a body, so we can just try taking the pose ourselves. There we find all the answers. A story also helps, here are my stories for this pose, yours might be similar or very different as will be your exaggerations.. let me know if you have any questions, and Ím looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

Cool! Thank you