Here's some beans I've been drawing lately while following along to the Bean Example Video going over twists, Tilts, Leans and Foreshortening. As you can see, I also tried to rough out limbs with the beans as you can tell lol. Any advice or critiques on my beans would be much loved :3

Hello! As Michael mentioned, I would recommend looking at objects in your home and learning to see how light reacts on the object. I would also suggest not holding back on making your shadows darker. Increasing the contrast could help with defining the shapes. like a friend always tells me, don’t be afraid to make your shadows really dark :) . You can always go back and lighten them later if needed. hope this helps!

Hello there! As mentioned by many others in this feed, I agree that you may need to adjust the values in your piece to add additional contrast. I would suggest determining what your lightest values is supposed to be, and then determining your darkest values. afterwards, push those respectively values in their respective directions to make the lights lighter and darker tones darker. I think you could easily figure this out by determining where your light source is and how it would affect the way the subject and her surroundings are lit. Once you determine that, that should also help with pushing the tones into the right directions :) Also! You may want to look into Marc Brunet's Grayscale to Color Video. He does a great job of explain simple ways of using grayscale coloring to establish contrast and hues first before building up to color. The link is posted below :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zkh8KV2vbQ I know I may be repeating a lot of what was said already, but I hope this all helps still :)