I miss Jason Manley and conceptart.org . This reminds me of him. He would have done a better job at making his light speech into a long speech about why, for each illustration, there is a passion for composition. I feel no doubt that this man's career, that is 1 year younger than conceptart.org, benefited from conceptart.org immensely, and that what is being shown in these tutorials is often an unfortunate replacement for the art direction that existed there. Of course there are many exceptions to that on here. But there doesn't really seem to be a community here. Ive tried to participate a few times and it seems extremely quiet here. However the anatomy on here on proko is second to none. With this piece I only have one problem which is that the choice of the area where he is turned into stone doesn't contrast well with the background to read well. The color dynamic should be different there, but maybe that is something that is typical of the style of Magic the gathering as needing an overly tan background.

Mermaids!? Well - I can't resist! 25 minutes is not much - but the reference images are lovely!

Wow, 25 minutes went by fast.

I had a lot of fun drawing these mermaids! The first three are 15 minutes drawings and the last one took about 25 minutes.

This is my attempt at a mermaid. I tried to lay in the shadows too, but I'm not sure how light reacts underwater. I really need to practice more!

Assignment 01 - Arm Bones Getting back into anatomy, forgot how much problem solving is required! Any feedback is welcome and appreciated! Thanks!

It would be nice to be able to download these as an .obj file or something. As long as theyre on this site it's not necessary, but It might be good to have them as downloads. I just want to emphasize though that this course is so good, I've been using it for well over a year.

thank you

I have a question about the pelvis. I'm posting it here, but part of my question can be seen in the videos on spine anatomy. When Skelly bends over to touch his toes, the entire pelvis is pushed backward. I'm having trouble wrapping my head around why this happens. I know the spine can lean forward or arch forward without that happening, but It seems impossible for normal forward bending over to happen without this pushing back kind of cupping motion of the pelvis and I'm not sure how to really understand what is causing that to happen. Maybe its the innervation the muscles to cause this motion to happen. It feels like the gluteal muscles have to relax and the knees have to lock, but Im trying to understand this motion better as it directly effects imagining the pose of the pelvis correctly. Any help is indeed appreciated.

I would just say that when you ghost the rest of the body, spend a little more time with proportion or position. I'm looking at that 3rd one in particular. The focused forms look good though.