Still, these are amazing!

Adjustments after doing the overlay.

Very accurate! Great job

Hi @Jack, nice drawings! One answer to your concerns could be: Don't worry about it. The better you get, the better your accuracy will become. But I have some tips that might help: - Step back regularly to see your work from a distance, or if you're in a cramped space, take a photo of your drawing. The point is to see your drawing in a smaller scale, since that can reveal some proportion issues. - Mirror the drawing. You could take your phone for example, and hold one of its edges against your forhead. Then if you look up into the turned off dark screen, you'll see your artwork mirrored and upside down, which can give you a fresh look on things, and help you notice mistakes. - Having a good body position when drawing could help. Sitting upright with your eyes at about an arms length from the paper, allows you to keep the big picture in mind when you draw. But as mentioned, maybe the issue will disappear with practice. For your next drawings, here are some things to consider: - You're making the heads to small. You could double check your work with the Human Proportions – Average Figure. Take the height of the head, then go down the figure you've drawn, one head at a time, and check if things are in the right place. The nipples are one head down, and the belly button another, etc. For foreshortened poses you could think three dimensionally, and imagine stacking the heads in space, to get a hunch of whether the proportions are right or not. - Overall, your drawings are stretched vertically; you're making vertical distances longer than they are. So keep an extra eye on that. As a specific exercise, you could practice cutting vertical distances in half. You might discover that you tend to put the middle point too low, for example. Or to get even more practice. First draw a large rectangle to practice your horizontals and verticals; compare the horizontal lines with the horizontal edges of the paper, and the vertical lines with the vertical edges of the paper (then check with a ruler and make adjustmens). Then split that rectangle in halves, top to bottom, side to side. - When you're doing the lay-in, check your work with horizontals and verticals, to make sure that things are aligning correctly. I hope this helps :)

Hi @hannassi, nice drawings! These look carefully measured. Good job! - In #1 her left (our right) arm is too long. Referring to the standardized proportions can be a help (Human Proportions – Average Figure for example). According to those the upper arm should be about the length of the ribcage. Another hint is to look at the other arm. Are both arms the same lenght? The bilateral symmetry of the body is important. - In #2 the torso feels compressed. We're lacking the space between the ribcage and hip. When drawing, think of the figure as a series of shapes. You have the Head neck ribcage waist hip upper legs lower legs feet shoulders upper arms lower arms hands Make sure every shape is there. Having a clear idea of the pieces, can make the process easier and more efficient. I also think it will improve the drawing, since it will make priorities clear; you emphasize the major shapes instead of the secondary or tertiary shapes. In drawing#3 you have a strong prism like shape at the hip which seem to resemble the gluteus medius, but you don't have an indication of the ribcage, which is a primary shape. The gluteus medius is secondary. Emphasizing the secondaries can tear the composition apart. I attached two hand drawings that I did where the secondaries dominate (I'm working on this myself). The hand to the left works a little better than the right, since the secondary shapes dominate less. -In #4 the figure might have been drawn too wide and chubby. I hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!

Hi Dre! Thank you for your courage to come forward and admitting that you are struggling. It can be hard to admit; I know that from experience. What helped me understand the whole measurement thing, especially when it come to the Loomis method was watching Proko's video on how different head shapes fit into Loomis. Loomis is a good reference, but it is not the law. It is a good thing that you caught the mistakes early on. However, take as long as you have to with your drawing, I can relate because you see people like Stan, and his former teacher Jeff get to a point of likeness with such ease. Don't worry, it'll come. You may want to take your drawing to a finish to the best of you ability, and place tracing paper over it to redraw and correct the mistakes you see on your drawing on the tracing. I hope this helps.

Good job, keep it up, practice makes the master.)

Hi @pmak22, nice studies! You seem to be learning a lot about measuring. Don't stress over it though😎. Training your eye takes time and you don't have to do stay on doing only this exercise until you master it. Think of it more like a bootcamp, where you get introduced to the techniques and get a good grasp of it. The fine tuning will happen in the drawings you make in the future where you use these techniques whenever necessary to make the drawings as good as you can. Also be aware, that you might not always want to copy what you're seeing exactly, but rather design things in the way you prefer to have them. However, training your eye and hand to be able to copy exactly is not a bad thing. - I agree that you're making the heads and feet too small. In image two, note how you've made the head to narrow front to back. Remember to make room for the brain. The head is basically a brain case with a face attached on it. You also tend to make the shoulders too high. Hope this helps :)

@kotka Since you listed A3 as a paper size, I'm going to assume you don't reside in the US, however, are there places you can send files to print easily? In the US, you can email/upload images to be printed and picked up within a few hours to drug stores like Walgreens/CVS or shipping stores like Fedex. That being said I also might assume those companies are meaningless to you :/

Cool! - If you're interested in measuring and accuracy, you might appreciate checking out Dorian Iten's Accuracy Guide (Accuracy Guide Lesson ). I found it and his accuracy exercises https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMX3K3YMbd8&t=7s really helpful. - I've heard that Leonardo Da Vinci started his figure drawings with a vertical line and maybe a marking of the halfway point. I've tried this myself, and I feel like having this vertical line (that you've decided is intersecting a specific point on the body) to relate to is really helpful, yet very simple. Hope this helps :)

it has caracter ! great proportions