I love your work! Your figures have a playfulness to them that really lifts my spirits. Also, those shadow shapes in the last 3 slides are very satisfying. I can't wait to see what you do with that storyboarding course, I'd love to see the scenes and compositions you put these characters into. It's clear your grasp of 3D form and gesture is very solid. Nicely done! Not a critique really, I just enjoyed seeing your work. Thanks for sharing!

I am so used to seeing mirror selfies that the blank space on the left made me think that was the phone for good 3-4 seconds till I looked properly at it heh. Anyway, it gave me a feeling of chaos inside calm outside and trying to keep it together sort of feeling. Kind of a momentary intense feeling about nothing in general. Something fragmented, that's probably the white lines in the background. I am in awe of your painting skills tho, I wish to achieve that level of skill with my shadows and painting faces covered in dark and bright lighting. And the contrast between the carefully rendered face and hair done with thick brushstrokes. I am nowhere near your skillset tho so feel free to ignore what you think isn't useful.

First of all, those are some impressive numbers! That kind of daily practice is the most important part of getting better, so you're definitely on the right track. As for moving forward, I'm no expert, but I can tell you what helped me: I was stuck on gesture for a long time, and it wasn't until I moved on to other topics, like pencil control, form, proportions, perspective, etc., and then came back to gesture that I saw a significant improvement. I've found that all these things actually gave me a more complete understanding of gesture, just as learning gesture gives a more complete understanding of form, composition, etc. All the disciplines are linked to one another, they cannot be learned in isolation, they must be learned together. I'm not saying gesture should not be a part of your daily practice, I still do it every day, but I would recommend moving forward with your studies, working on pencil control, learning form and perspective (highly recommend drawabox.com for these two things), then come back to gesture and see how much you can integrate. Repeat that cycle of learning and you will likely improve much more quickly in all areas than you would if you focused on each discipline in isolation. I hope this helps! Keep up the good work :)

Hi! I like the way you are moving. I think as it is it's good for a background prop, but I'd add a third more darker tone to define the form of individual parts better. Right now it looks more like a unified object to me (In my opinion). Hope it helps)

I learned recently that allowing yourself to be bored can improve creativity, so I like to limit my predrawing entertainment. I do something mundane and meditative, like eat breakfast without any other stimulation before I draw. It can really help with the enjoyment of sketching warmups and drills. Personally, I start with 5 mins of drills I don't have to think about, like connecting two dots with one smooth stroke, thin to thick lines, thick to thin, ellipses, freehand boxes in perspective from imagination, etc. Then I do some 2- and 5-minute gesture drawings from reference.sketchdaily.net. Then I draw for fun, either a project or just unplanned doodling, then at some point I do a lesson (right now I'm working through Proko's anatomy course). I'd love to hear how your daily sketching is going! That's exactly how I started cultivating a daily art practice, too. I've fallen off the wagon a couple times, but every time I climb back on it gets a little easier. Fingers crossed I've got it figured out this time but honestly what are the chances of that? Good luck to you!

Hey everybody! I’m Hank, I’m from Massachusetts, and I started drawing about three years ago. Until recently, I had a casual daily practice of creating art, but for the past month I’ve been trying to buckle down and get good. I’m looking forward to getting to know some of you rad art folks!

I found Radiorunner's Curriculum for the Solo Artist very helpful! Limiting each unit to a month and trying to complete each challenge within that time frame it gives you that start and end point as well as practice meeting deadlines. You can follow it strictly or use it as a resource for cobbling together your own curriculum. Here's the link: https://imgur.com/gallery/RXJ2nmH Hope this helps!

I love how much personality this character has! I would think about the balance of the figure for the next draft. It looks like the character is leaning too far to the right to stay upright. Maybe try more of a bend at the waist to bring the torso over the base of support, or pop the right (anatomical left) leg out to widen the base of support in order to accomodate that lean. Great style, and I hope I get to see the finished piece!