Hey Sita, Nice work on your anatomy studies, they are really coming along. Seeing that you are now moving into rendering your forms, I wanted to give you some suggestions that I hope you will find helpful. First of all, the easiest way to begin shading is to create a separation between the shadow and light shapes. This gives dimension to our forms right away when we fill in the shadow shapes. Then we can render into and out of the shadows by adding a core shadow, mid tones and highlights. One thing this helps us do is not let values that are too light pollute our shadows. This is happening a little in your drawing. You have reflective light in the shadow side that is too light which can kill the feeling of dimension of the form, causing it to get flat. I did a quick sketch over your leg drawing to show you what I mean, I hope it helps :)

Nice! The knee feels solid! - I think you could have put more care into the toes. It feels like they could have more structure. It might help to build the toes with boxes first, then rounden them for an organic look, once you're happy. Comparing with the reference I also feel like you could have varied the design of the toes more, especially in the 3 middle ones. The index (?) toe seems to be long and boxy with a circular end, the middle curved and cylindrical, the next one straight and high, pointing more down. Look for variation. You'll be thinking more about design variation in the toes in the foot part of this course, but it might help to consider it already. - In all drawings in your albums, the shadows are a bit too light. In this drawing I think you can make the shadows much darker than you think, without it looking weird, and the result will be a more clear separation of light and shadow, and a stronger sense of form. How comfortable are you with values? You might appreciate doing some value studies. Dorian Iten has a lesson where he explains how to do it How to Organize Values. You can get it for free in the Proko Course Sampler. Another video you might appreciate is his Mind-Blowing Realistic Shading Tricks, where he talks about 2 common shading mistakes; one being making shadows too light. But in short: make the shadows much darker. If you choose to practice value studies, feel free to reach out if you have any questions. I practiced value studies this spring, and I found it hard to do 5-value studies like Dorian. I found that it helped to get a solid grasp on 3-value studies first (and before that, 2-value studies). Once comfortable with 3-value studies, adding two more wasn't as hard. - You're having the tendon of the tibialis anterior stop with a sharp line at the ankle joint, as if it inserted there. Continue it lightly all the way to its insertion, or end it like you've done, but with a soft edge, to suggest that it's continuing. Hope this helps :) Keep up the good work💪