Thats great! thanks Lili!:) Yeah that's pretty much what i did. I had to lighten the banana a little in the front, might have gone a little too far maybe:D The only thing when I was painting the brown parts of the pear it was blending with the green underneath a little more than I wanted. Should have waited for it to dry a little more I suppose. Something learned anyway!:) Sure gonna do more still life studies!

Thanks for your feedback, I will switch to do this digitally to avoid shading.

Hi, nice drawings. I especially liked how you stretched the pecs in your first image. For the shoulders I usually think of two rhythms. A bow for the clavicle (there is a img you made it super straight) and a curve for the trapezius on the back. Also I try to think of it as a box in perspective so everything can fall in the right place in space. I know your focus are the shoulders, but the legs are sometimes too thin and twisting in a weird way. Observe your refs, they are not bending or twisting, it is a more fluid straight movement. I hope it helps =D

Another great batch of studies @Lili! There were a few images I found on the left side where I think you could have simplified more, darkened the values a bit, and grouped the value shapes into bigger areas. I think zooming out while doing these can help with some of the value issues you may be running into. Some people recommend squinting, and I do that sometimes as well, however I find it more tiring haha. On a side note, I had never heard of Tibor Nagy before this, but I can totally see where Zac Retz gets his style from now lol Great work!

Hey, this is actually very useful. Thanks a lot! Yes, I noticed the soldiers were a bit off later on. Thanks for the paintover, I was debating which value to use for the backdrop. I have never attempted this exercise before, this was my first try, I will use fewer values and then go over to 5. I have one more question, as you can see my horses don't exactly correspond to the image, especially the 2nd (from the left) rider and his horse. How do you think I should simplify these complex objects? I haven't tried sketching them out yet, I mostly only use brush and erase tool to create my shapes.

Hi, the course is almost complete. I believe the only thing left are the pdfs from the leg and foot muscles. But Proko won't charge anything more for this.

Hi @Lili, sorry I couldn't get to this sooner but most of these look great! There is a section with a lot of environments in the middle of the first page you uploaded, and I think that is where you may have run into the most issues. Because of the atmospheric perspective in these paintings, most of the details in the background is going to be simplified to one value. Additionally, the details in the foreground should be grouped together well. If you're ever in doubt, shrink your image so that the paintings are literally the size of one of your fingernails. You'll be able to more clearly see the graphic break-up of these images. In general, the point of this exercise was to simplify these paintings so that you have large, organized groups of values. The area that I pointed out seems to be the only place where you may have run into a few issues. The rest look great. Keep it up!