[Victor Okoro]

Robert Kusztos. I can see your improvement over the months, especially with your
anatomy, but the way you represent your shadows has remained crude. Remember, do not copy the image, the image itself may not be that good. Let your drawings be a representation of what you know, and that should be the anatomy, and the use of soft, firm, hard and lost edges to describe the form. Squint when looking at your subject to see the light and dark patterns. Don’t be distracted by the details, simplify your shadows to one value first, then you establish darkest dark. Which means avoid

shadows within shadows

, especially at your early stages. Simplify first. This applies to ALL the sketches you have uploaded.

[Victor Okoro]

Krystal Sing.
I really like your potrait, I think you should practice lay ins with your dark and light value. What would have really giving this painting a more finished look would be the establishment of your lightest light and darkest dark. Not before you have already established where you light and dark patterns fall.
The wrinkle the right side surrounding her tooth cylinder I don’t think was positioned correctly. Also the position of her ears, if it were that low I think we would see more of the under plane of her neck with mouth and nose changing accordingly. Learn the foreshortening of the head figure and the body if you have time

[Victor Okoro]

Robert Kusztos. I like your use of form lighting to really bring out some of her features. I believe your painting would have benefited more if you also showed the forms that turn away from the light source using either firm or soft edges. Like on the ball of her eyes. The side planes of her face which I think needed some darker values

[Victor Okoro]

Jeremy Lefebvre. I’ll try my best to critique this one, even though I really like the piece.
About your values, I believe I notice what looks like a rim light on her left arm, which my infer the direction the light source is, then perhaps your second lighting is more ambient since she’s outside. My problem would be with the rim light as I don’t think it was used as a way to give more information about her form, with some knowledge of ANATOMY, instead of smearing it flat like that. For example at her hips it could have been use to emphasize her hips/pelvis, even though hers may not be that prominent.
You have the light source in mind and then you also thing of how you can best use to light form to create patterns which improve the overall value design of the piece. Remember value comes first before colour.

[Victor Okoro]

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