Surprisingly, I feel like I have improved since last assignment. I took a bit more time on this one and spent more time honing details. I like how the underpainting shows through :))

This was very difficult for me to do. I would love some critique/help.

Not super happy with this one, I will rather move onto another ref lol

Trying with provided ref. Very tough.

I’m still learning to be comfortable with values. Might have overworked this one a bit. I wanted to let the legs fall into shadow but fell into a terrible middle ground that resulted in underbaked feet. Looking forward to more grayscale paintings though. This brown tone process was very fun.

Emphasizing the hips and twisting the forearm is the difficult part for me. I had to cut and free transform.

My complete lack of anatomy knowledge is starting to really embarrass me

Second assignement. I really enjoyed the exercise with a more traditional approach. As advised I tried to stylize and get rid of excessive details. I'm not sure about the light values i chose...

The process with this brush was really difficult, couldn't used it effectively so I am not sure I enjoyed it, for now atleast. Blending was hard, especially with the coloured sketch. But since I was way out my comfort zone, I learned a lot, and even with my lack of anatomy knowledge and wrong decisions (the right arm mainly), I quite like the result. I wanted to blend with a soft brush but thought it was needed to stay with incomfortable brushes.

WIP 1 It is very hard to control these brushes but I'm having a lot of fun blending with them!

I like John's approach using the under-painting. I started my image the same way and then finished the rendering in color.

Hey, here is my try, I have a hard time finding simple shapes and being thoughtful about brush strokes that I’m putting down, but thinking about it as an assignment really helps to finish the painting even when you’re not confident enough