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No, it's fine. I'm glad you're giving feedback. I should have been more clear. The point was to study the superfluous (art vocal if you don't already know. That just means it shows at the skin.) landmarks of the spine and shoulder blades. The model is emaciated. We use her for all skeletal studies.

I did make the shoulder blades too long, but that was pointed out.

Did I say vocals? Haha. Vocab. As in vocabulary. There's pretty much a language to art that you'll learn along the way.

Nothing to say on studies. You know your stuff.

Dancing people: Their chest/trunk area seem to be fused in this giant chunk of grey. More variation on shade there would help define which part is which. Maybe darken the guy's on the back's shirt.

Otherwise, good job!

Mostly what I have to say is about the above leg studied. While I’m far from an expert in this area, something really looks amiss in the back of hid knee. I can’t really put my finger on it exactly, but it seams like the transition from calf, to knee, to thigh would be a bit… cleaner maybe. More sloped and rounded rather than budged as you have it.

Also, another thing that really bothers me about the leg (the one in front) is the main bone, the one in the lower portion of his legs, seams a bit bent. I know that bone isn’t exactly straight, but the curve you have put into it seams a bit extreme and makes his leg look weak. At least to me, it looks like the bottom portion of his leg is at a bit of an angel, it also looks like he is apply weight on it, so I think (don’t quote me on this.) that his thigh muscles would budge slightly, giving you a glimpse of the meat on the opposite side of the main leg bone. That might also help fix the strange curvature that bone seams to have going on.

Because I’m not all that great at explaining things, I took a quick look around DA and found THIS , I though, if you didn’t already have it, this would be incredibly helpful.

The hands gave me trouble. I used my own for reference, but meh. It's difficult to orient. I really need to get a mirror small enough to keep on me while drawing.

He's got horse legs. I've been told to make it more obvious, but then the jeans wouldn't fit and also, it's not very prominant on the avatar. But I will be fixing the feet because they are too round for horse hooves.

The hand I found is all kinds of messed up. I won't make the same mistakes in the next one.

Horse legs: Maybe make them more obvious? Now it just looks like someone who has extremely short and broken legs.

Torso: Looks like the front is not "symmetric" to the back. Just change the right boundary to make it look more muscular. The back is fine.

Also, one problem I see is that the perspective of the trunk is not the same as of the hips. His hips seems to be pointed more to the right and the torso faces us more. I don't see enough twisting motion in the stomach area, so it looks somewhat dislocated.

The hand on the right looks weird: middle finger too straight, ring and pinky not relaxed enough (supposing that he's holding that cigar not too tightly). Try holding a big pen with your hand and see. Though my hand can be different from yours...

Here's a sloppy redline, hope you don't mind... Only drew the legs, I guess you can add the pants over it?

But they must have special jeans!!! biggrin

Looks better now. smile