PIXELFLOSS- have fun!
SOLARUNDIEs- I like your use of opposing curves too. I assume you used PS or PAINTER, to do your sketches. I think that is a really good idea and alot of people have been doing it successfully. I would enjoy seeing more of the appendages, but that is a minor crit (if one at all really).
Thanks for reading this,
Shaunstipick_S: Actually, that’s just paper, pencil, and a scanner. And thanks for the comment!
SOLOARUNDIES- I am so sorry!! I am mortified…
Your ability to control your pencil pressure is really good then.
hey
long time no posts. sorry well following are two attempts . personally i think they are both bad.
TRIANGLE KID
is there something else you don;t have foraml training in like fixing holes in ceilings… you know the one my head made when i hit the roof after seeing your second sketch.
rebecka
knoweldge of anatomy good because of an entire semester and love to play on skulls with femurs.
on serious note i love the peanut shape torso idea, its fantastic.
i ll be over in the anatomy forum if you need me.
shreays
That’s because drawing hands is from the devil. 
It’s no wonder Burne Hagarth has an entire book on nothing but hands. It’s a very good one too.
hehe, WyattHarris
here are some hands i did. The upper two I used the pen tool and they didn’t come out nice. The lower two are with the pencil tool. No references used (but probably i should).
(Painter Classic)
Critiques welcome 
Guys,
Sorry for the delay, but finally, here is another review…
thetrianglekid,
you have since posted more impressive work elsewhere in this forum, but this is one of your earlier pieces which I decided to critique. Hope this still proves useful
I would not say that you have the same problem now in the current work which you have been posting, but in this earlier piece there were just a few areas where form was becoming a bit flattened out ~ this is a problem which is easily fixed by EXAGGERATING CURVES and COMPLETING FORMS ~ in many case, CIRCLES / SPHERES ~ in order to express form.
Mainly, however, I am impressed that you are improving at such a rapid pace, and that you have had little formal training. So, I am curious as to how you picked up drawing ~ and picked it up well, I might add ~ without formal instruction :).
Thanks for your posts, and I am encouraged to see that you are continually improving!
Keep up the great work!
~Rebeccak
awesome awesome
THANKS again rebecca.
i’ve right clicked and saved each one of those pics, going to try and fix these problems in my future work. i’m learning so much. it’s been like a 3 week figure drawing explosion in my brain. i’m so glad this sub-forum is up now. it’s one of two i actively look at (and the only one i really participate in) here at cgtalk! i hope it continues to grow and see more and more work.
as for myself, i used to draw as a kid when i got bored. (disney characters, copies of dr. seuss’ animal things, video game characters… basically anything that had lines on the outside of it or was holding a sword) i live in ohio, so that was a lot of boredom. 
my mom is a naturally great artist, never having any real training either. she just has a good sense of what things look like. we’re chinese, and she’d studied chinese calligraphy briefly, i think that may have had something to do with it. a lot of chinese characters demand attention to proportion, stroke, etc.
my dad’s a college professor and he literally can’t draw a simple box or a cylinder and has the worst chinese calligraphy i’ve ever seen. he wrote a note to me once telling me to pick him up somewhere and left it on the fridge and i had NO idea what it said so he never got picked up. he’s still there, i think. haha.
he didn’t really approve of art completely, so it never became more than a sideline hobby for me and he’d never let me get cool pencils/pens/markers/paper. most of my drawings were just normal pencil drawings on already-used computer paper that had my dad’s students’ essays and school work on the back.
prior to these past 3 or 4 weeks, i hadn’t drawn for like a year and a half because of school, but after finding cgtalk and seeing the first anatomy review thread, i couldn’t help myself. i think whenever i even get a little tidbit of good instruction, my mind is just ready to pounce on it and eat it up. that’s why i’m so happy this place is here!
ok, enough ranting. thanks again, rebecca!! back to work for me!
what he said. i have a same story. but my mom 's not an artist.
ok here s two more from me. i think i got it right the second time aroun
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shreyas
franzboas,
Nice drawing! Would you mind terribly shrinking the size, preferably so that the image has a width of 600 pixels x its appropriate length and reposting?
Thank you
~Rebeccak
Wow, I go away for a week and there’s a new sub-forum and all these new threads! I feel like I missed so much.
sphere,
Glad to see you back! Nah, actually, the Opposing Curves Lesson has been stalled because I’ve been so busy setting the sub-forum up ~ so please browse the new threads and take in all the cool new work! But Lesson-wise, you needn’t worry about being behind :).
~Rebeccak
Hello, Everyone,
I would just like to thank everyone for participating in LESSON 002: OPPOSING CURVES and for contributing so much in terms of your posts to this thread. I appreciate the fact that so many of you braved criticism and posted your work for the viewing pleasure of all ~ thank you!
Having said that, I would like to post several drawings which I think were exceptional.
Here they are, in no particular order:
SET 1: Excellent work, guys!
SET 3: Excellent work, guys!
Thanks to EVERYONE who posted! I greatly enjoyed seeing everyone’s work, and look forward to more in Lesson 3!
~Rebeccak
Guys,
LESSON 002:OPPOSING CURVES is now CLOSED FOR POSTING. Anyone is free to peruse through the thread, however, at their leisure :).
LESSON 003 will be starting shortly ~ stay tuned!
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE FOR YOUR OUTSTANDING PARTICIPATION!!! You made this Lesson a great success and it was a great thrill for me to see your work and your progress 
.
Hope to see everyone for LESSON 003!
~Rebeccak
I am chinese it was quit deferent from my academy of find arts . my professor usualy told us use strainge line creat form. but I think you method is quit good for skecthing.
purewine,
Thank you for your comments. I hope you will post your work in the current Lesson:
REBECCA KIMMEL’S Anatomy Review 003.
Hope to see you there.
~Rebeccak
