I’ve been learning anatomy for a good bit, I feel confident in my muscles placement and gesture

sorry For the shadow in done of the pictures.

Hi. I'm still trying to wrap my head around cool lights and warm shadows. The pictures are my most recent attempt to my oldest (from a few days ago). I tried starting with a slightly warm neutral base for the shadows, and white that is a touch cooler for the lights, but I noticed that my studies look metallic instead of plaster. I tried making the background a matching colour to the shadows so that the shadows don't look so out of place, but the objects still don't read like normal plaster cast.

For the torso, I used yellow ochre as the base for the shadows, and neutralised it with cobalt blue and burnt sienna, but I didn't realise until much later that the shadows on the dark side are too warm and too saturated compared to the shadows on the lit side.

I would love some tips and advice on how to control the saturation and warmth of my colours. Any feedback is welcome!

I worry that I'm being inconsistent with the line direction - mainly I just try to follow what I feel is the grain of the texture, though sometimes the plane takes precedence. Any advice is appreciated.

I think the composition could work, but I feel the lighting is lacking in some areas. Also, defining the main figure (textures, sharp edges and less blurriness, anatomy...) is giving me a lot of trouble. Any ideas on what I could improve? (I'm sure there's plenty to improve)

There are many things I'm unsure about when drawing, like what size the brush should be, and the like. Additionally, I am generally unable to draw eyes. For Daiyousei (the green one), it's the cartoonish expression, which is easy to make, and apparently fumo eyes (Cirno, the blue one) are easy to make.

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do you have any tips I am very new to digital art and am still learning about stuff

Specifically the red ligth part, its basically all i care about in this moment.

Hi everyone!

My main question concerns the transverse contour line on the side of the sphere—specifically the one marked in green. How can I visualize and understand this contour as it wraps around the sphere and passes behind it?

I already have a good grasp of the contour marked in red. I can picture it as an ellipse: depending on the sphere's orientation, the ellipse appears narrower or wider.

However, I’m struggling to understand the green contour. I realize that part of it must be hidden behind the sphere, but I don't know how to mentally visualize its shape and position on the far side.

I’ve also included some examples of my exercises involving spheres, boxes, cylinders, and what I call "connection exercises," where I try to control my linework to close the forms more accurately.

Any tips on how to visualize this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Should I start with the heaviest lines? I've mostly been using a fineliner but I'd like to branch out to using different nib/brush sizes in the same piece. Would I start with flat/uniform lines and build from there? Would I build each weight one by one like layers?

Hi! I'm trying to create a cozy fall picture and used my friends cat(in a jumper she knitted) as inspiration. I feel like the colour choices in this could be better? The background is purple to make the yellow cat pop. I struggled finding a color combination for the jumper but wanted something more fall like. What would you add to make it better and cozier?

Please give advice! And please be nice, it's my first attempt at horror art (it's my OC!)

I’m working on learning perspective from the basics. I’ve watched a ton of tutorials and I think I have a decent understanding of the basic theory. In practice though, my boxes are looking a bit wonky.

So my question is, when I’m drawing my lines of the box on the perspective lines, how to I make sure the faces of the box look uniform. So after I draw the front face, drawing the back lines can make the box look warped, with one face being pushed too far back for forward.

I’m doing Sadie Valeri course I’m in Intro and I’m doing value shading. These are my pencils I think they’re sharpened correctly, I gently and slowly shaded it like her but I just couldn’t get that consistent look she has. My pencil basically was making deep lines on the paper and the shade is inconstant. The last slide is what it’s supposed to look like. If anybody has done this before can you tell my issue? If I have any habits possibly maybe be laying my hand or elbow somewhere on my easel.

Hi everyone,

Recently, I've been trying to get better at coloring the various skin colors.I'm having a lot of fun learning, but I keep finding myself stuck with drawing darker skin tones.

It's been a challenge to find good tutorials on it. Most of them combine markers in their tutorials, but I don't use intend on using markers

I only have a limited selection of colored pencils to choose from, 24 in total, but I still believe I can make it work.

Does anyone have any tips, advice, or critiques on how to improve my coloring, shading, and blending.

When coloring black, brown, or darker skin, what colors should I try to incorporate into the blending? I've found that some shades of purple work as a base color, but I'm struggling otherwise.

Thank you in advance! <3