This looks really good! You're getting a lot of things right here, your proportions are well observed, you're drawing with simplified CSI lines, I can see you're establishing a gesture and working from largest shapes to the smaller shapes. Really nice work! Running out of room on the page is VERY common, and an it's an easy fix for next time! Before you get started drawing try to imagine an envelope around whatever you're about to draw, and visualize the space you want it to occupy on the page. Sometimes I'll imagine it as a sticker between my fingers and map out where I want the placement on the page with my hand before beginning. Give yourself a few light marks on the page to establish the outside boundaries and start to work within that envelope. Even if you break outside of that envelope estimate later in the drawing, you're still being conscious of the page boundaries and quickly planning your page composition before you start drawing. Thanks for sharing your progress!! Putting your work out there for critique is difficult, but you'll see your improvement skyrocket if you keep up the practice and establish a feedback loop! Hope this helps, looking forward to seeing more of your work!

Really nice work! Great to see you drawing through, and thinking with big shapes first, then narrowing down. The proportions look really good too! Keep up the good work!

Excellent! Great adjustment to the model, it's fun experimenting with the established shapes to see how far you can push the character! Keep up the good work!

It's cool to see the initial lay-in side by side with the final lines. This is a good example of the next step of refining the loose sketchy lines to create a more complete drawing. The hand lay-in is the best representation of what kinds of lines you want to achieve for this project. You found some really nice rhythms throughout by using your CSI lines, creating a foundation for your final drawing to remain energetic and dynamic. The VR girl is not quite as rhythmic as the hand. There's not as many intentional connections between the parts, and as a result feels a little more stiff and less cohesive in the final version. Don't be afraid to simplify a bit more in that initial drawing and remember to stick to the intention of using CSI lines. Overall though this is great work! Love the varying line weights in the finals.

I really like the energy of your lines! I agree with your point about the neat lines. There's some things you can hold in your mind while you're drawing to help you clean things up. Try to be really diligent about using CSI lines, just like in the previous project. This type of rough sketching benefits from intentionally designed curves and straights to keep things organized while offering freedom to make more exploratory marks. Simplification to those 3 types of lines also removes unnecessary detail that can confuse the form in the initial stages. You've done a good job of using CSI in these drawings. If there is any room for improvement with CSI it's in the VR girl drawing, which has a lot of detail that makes it easy to get lost in the weeds. Overall though you've done good! Slowing down and trying to visualize each line before you put it on the page helps a ton. Consider each line as a thought. You may make multiple lines until you express the right thought, which is expected at this stage. Keep your lines light until you find the right one to darken, and the rest will fade to the back. Like you said, it takes persistence but applying the right intentions helps speed up the process!

These look really great! What was your biggest struggle with the VR Girl? I think you're on the right track, keep up the good work!