Hi @Kianna Peppers, these look really cool! - The proportions of the overall foot and the pieces of the foot vary a bit from drawing to drawing, so that's something to pay extra close attention to in the simple lay-in. It could be valuable to study drawings of feet by animators, to see what simple forms they've used to draw the feet (Mowgli for example. Or Tarzan.) I mention animators, since one thing they have to be good at is keeping the pieces of the body consistent as they move the characters around. - It might also be valuable to practice drawing feet from imagination. - The angle of the ellipses on your cylinders tend to be slightly off. On a true cylinder, the minor axis of the ellipse alligns with the major axis of the cylinder. - In #2 the structure of the toes is a little unclear; they feel a little soft. The digits haven't been drawn as clear separate pieces, but rather merge together. - I'm not a 100% sure, but the crossections you've drawn for the metacarpals (2-5 (five being the pinky)) in image #3 might be incorrect. The crossections suggest that the thickness of the metacarpals is taller than it's wide, but I think it's the oppsite, like you've done it in the other drawing on the same page; drawing the metacarpals like bridges. I hope this helps :)

These drawings look really nice! Great gesture and strong forms! - Try to use line variation to communicate more clearly. You could for example, make the outer contour thicker to give the foot a more cohesive look. You could also clarify overlaps with line weight. If one form is in front of another, give it a darker contour. Stan talks a lot about line in the Drawing Basics course. Ask yourself: What do I want to say with my lines? What's the story of the pose? Then try to communicate that as clearly as you can. Hope this helps :)

These look good! - Keep an extra eye on proportion. You tend to make the foot a bit narrow - In #4, try to show more of how the toes are being pushed against the ground. - In #2 the foot feels a bit flat. Try to capture the transverse arc more accurately; it's higher medially. - I would highly encourage you to practice drawing the foot bones from imagination. You might follow this routine: 1. Draw it from imagination 2. Check were you're off, with reference. Study the part you got wrong 3. Draw another one from imagination. When you have gotten to know the foot better, drawing from reference becomes easier. Hope this helps :)

Looks great! - I would keep an extra eye on proportion. Look back and forth between the drawings and the reference, and see if you can spot any differences. In #1 for example, the talus feels like it's too far down. - In #5, I don't think we should see as much of the bottom plane as you have shown. It starts below the tuberosity of the 5th metatarsal. Cheers!

These look really good. Maybe some cross contour lines would help keep the volumes consistent. Also a ground plane can help you see the depth of the shapes in space. Looks like you're on the right track.

Nice work! - You might be making the hinge joint a bit too wide. Keep it up 💪

I think it looks great

Hi @xander, nice studies! Well simplified and nice flow! I'll do my best to help you further: -In #2 you have the foot going from wide at the heel and talus, to narrow in the front. Usually it's the opposite; the foot is narrower in the back and wider in the front. I'm a huge Tarzan fan 🤩🤪 and if you look at Tarzan's feet in the Disney movie, you can see this clearly exaggerated . -In #4 the foot is twisting; we see the outside of the heel, but the inside of the toes. You're showing the medial plane of the toes, but remember that when we do that we no longer see the lateral side. - Just a thought: I looked through your album to see if I could give some macro guidance rather than just some anatomy tips. I noticed that you haven't posted any of the assignments from the Figure Drawing Fundamentals course. Have you taken it? (or anything equivalent to it?) If not, I strongly recommend waiting with the anatomy course. The things taught in the figure drawing course, like gesture and 3D-forms, are crucial for being able to execute the exercises in the anatomy course well. You could think of it as the Anatomy 1 course. Here´s a little story from my life: A few years ago I dreamed of being able to draw Tarzan. The Disney movie had been my favorite since I was a baby. I really wanted to learn anatomy, I found proko´s course, and started taking it, but I soon felt that something was lacking: I didn't know the fundamentals well enough. It was difficult to realize that, because it felt like my goal of being able to draw Tarzan was miles away, but I decided to take the figure drawing course anyway. I´m so glad I did! It gave me exactly what I wanted!; being able to draw gestural 3-dimensional figures, from imagination. I learned the most important part of drawing Tarzan! And to my suprise my figures felt quite accurate eventhough I didn´t know anatomy. It was like I had learned the pattern of the human body. I realized that rather than thinking of the figure drawing course being a obstacle in front of the anatomy course, it is more like the Anatomy 1 course. Hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!

Hi @Richard Barkman, nice studies! The structure feels very solid, but you still managed to maintain the gesture. Overall really nice job! - The arch of the foot feels a bit too long. I think you should shrink the distance between the front of the talus (the cylinder the tibia hooks on to) and the end of the metatarsals a little. - In image 1 you're showing the back plane of the tibia, when I think we should see the front plane. This can be tricky to see, especially since the bones have organic forms. Something that helps me is to imagine touching the object I'm seeing; I imagine laying my palm against the front of the tibia for example. When I do so it feels like the back of my hand is facing me --> that plane is angled toward us. This is a first check I like to do. Then I look closer to see if my imagination is playing tricks on me or not: you can see a thin sliver of the front of the tibia and tarsals below it --> my imagination was right. - The contours feel a little stiff. They are all very uniform in thickness and it feels like you drew them very slowly, but in one go, judging from the subtle wobbles. I've looked through the drawings in your album on the profile page and I think you would benefit from revisiting the gesture quicksketch exercise (lesson 1) in the Figure Drawing Fundamentals course, maybe as a warm-up, while continuing with your anatomy studies. That exercise can help you become even more comfortable with your pencil as well as drawing from your shoulder (drawing from your shoulder is explained in this video How to Hold and Control Your Pencil) If you decide to try it out, feel free to tag me (@Jesper Axelsson) when you post some gesture quicksketches. Hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!

Really nice! - In the first one the talus looks a bit wide. - In the second one it would be nice if you angled the tibia and fibula more forward, as in the photo. I think that will help show the pressure on the foot more. Hope this helps :)