It's a very nice idea to use old PB movies as reference. The highlights and shadows are there, that you wanted to practice are there. Something you could improve is use intermediate values to softener the transition between the highlight and shadows. Because of the sudden transitions, the shadows ended of working as hard edges, and made what would be a young lady to look older with more protuberant face bones. I trust you can still fix this drawing pretty easily, you can just smudge a bit the hard edges with a paper towel, and it would add middle values that will bring back the soft aspect of a young face

Nice drawing! What are you most happy with? I think you've done an especially good job with the shading; light and shadow clearly separated, and the core shadow shows the form quite well! To help me critique, it would be nice to hear you describe your process (something like "I started with... then..." "I followed Stan's process..." "The most difficult thing was" etc.) Cheers :)

Hi @Cristina Kaiden, I think you have done a good job with these. Really nice job with the gesture in #39. The proportions, placement and construction of the boxes could be improved, but if you feel fed up with this lesson, I think they are good enough. Feel free to move on. You can always revisit this lesson later on if you feel like you need to :) BOXES It would be nice to see your warm-up boxes too. Maybe I can help make them less of a struggle. It can be hard to discover errors without another pair of eyes. Looking at your beans I have a hunch that you're struggling with getting the convergence right. "I'M HAVING A HARD TIME ALSO SEEING THE DIRECTION OF THE TORSO AND THE PELVIS" I found this to be challenging too; the roundness of the forms can make it hard to imagine the box. What I did was to revist the lesson video often How to Draw Structure in the Body – Robo Bean at 2:54 to make sure I got the placement correct. Landmarks is key. If you find the asis and 10th rib corners, and place them in correct relationship on the paper, the correct box will unfold itself from that. If you have trouble finding the landmarks, imagining touching the model aswell as knowing where they are on yourself could help. Another thing that could help is to practice drawing the robo bean from imagination; you try to draw the "green robo bean" from the lesson video at 04:57, in different poses, checking your proportions with the video, until you have internalized it. When you encounter a difficult pose, you can think of what "the green robo bean" would have looked like in that pose, then alter it slighly to match the proportions of the individual. PAINTOVER I tried doing the beans myself. Maybe my solutions can be of some help. I also wrote some comments Hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!

First one is good. In the second one hair is not bad but you didn't establish the shape of the mass at the beginning.

Wow, these look great and what a great range. Not qualified to give you feedback but happy I ran across this :)

Hi @Cristina Kaiden, I think you've done a pretty good job with these! I'll do my best to help you further: - Like with the nose, structure plays a big role in drawing lips (or anything 3D). It's important to "build" the mouth, the way you do with the mannequin in the figure drawing course. Building it makes sure that the perspective is right, and also the shading; In the middle drawing for example, the top lip is facing downward slightly, and the bottom lip up slightly, So the overall value of the bottom lip should be lighter, since it's facing the light more. The portrait drawing course mentions structure, but it doesn't give you any indepth practice drills. But the figure drawing course does that. If you want to improve you lip drawing, continuing to work on the figure drawing course aswell, is probably a good idea. - Try to pick photos with better lighting. In the second photo you drew from, the lighting is quite flat, making it more difficult to show the form. Look for well lit photos with clear light and shade. Also, when you google for "lips" or "eyes" or "nose", you usually end up with very stylized photos, ( some probably use photoshop) and you don't really get to see what the feature actually looks like. I prefer to type in a name, a celebrity, or someone you know will appear in google images, to avoid those "fake" lips. Hope this helps :)