Ellipses in boxes

I’m trying to figure out my biggest issue with ellipses. I can usually draw a fairly smooth ellipse when it’s just floating on the page, but as soon as I have to fit it inside a box or align it to a minor/major axis, it becomes much harder. I feel like I’m trying to do two things at once: keep the ellipse smooth while also making sure it’s properly aligned. When I focus on alignment, the ellipse tends to develop flat spots, become asymmetrical, or lose its smoothness. When I focus on smoothness, the alignment is often off. I draw from the shoulder, and when the ellipse has to fit inside a specific space, I almost feel restricted compared to drawing a free-floating ellipse. My cylinders seem to suffer from this because the ellipses stop feeling clean and symmetrical.

24th June submission

Made one from imagination and 2 from reference. I for sure struggle with same face syndrome when drawing from imagination.

June Sketch Day 24

Back at it again, with all these blocky planes xD. I'm having fun with this since i know the form of each block, i kinda went all out with different angles. I found my go-to practice, thanks to Fosco, Marco and Christopher. I will keep hammering at this practice until i'm comfortable to draw planes without guiding lines. From their feedback, i thought that i needed to work more on perspective, and proportion. Hence, why i made all these blocky shapes, to ease my understanding with planes but in simple forms. For the two real planes, I also worked on proportion by following the corresponding line from the front tube to the back of the mainframe/rudder. It's still messy, but i hope it'll get better if i keep practicing. Shoutout to Fosco, Marco, and Christopher, you guys are awesome.

Personal Illustration

Hi! It’s my first time posting here! I’m looking for some feedback regarding my values / shading. I feel like I keep going too dark with the shadows and lose a lot of the form, but when I add bounce light I feel like my shadows start getting too contrasted (as in there is no clear shadow vs light shapes). I’m wondering if this is an issue of the core shadow not being dark enough, thus making the bounce light too light in comparison. I also feel like I am struggling showing that the mask is more in the forefront compared to the girl, and am also struggling showing that all these elements are in the same environment (as in, should I have some color from the mask bounce on her skin or the smoke to make it more believable?) I feel like I also struggle with over rendering a lot, so I’m thinking if I’m able to nail down the forms and showing them turning in space more easily, maybe that can fix that problem. I did struggle a bit with this illustration, as I kept moving a lot of elements around. Any feedback is appreciated, thanks!

End Times

Would love to have critics, especially on the composition and the perspectives, i feel like i could have done better on those. Also i don't know how to make it seems like the holes is massive and that the earth have been lauched from below.

Watercolor forest scene

Some quick watercolor forests. I wanted to do it because I liked the lighting and composition. But it's a bit too sketchy. Still need to improve watercolors.

Gesture Practice

My first week of gestures have been an attempt at establishing a daily practice in building familiarity with the flow of a figure in dynamic poses. I am still trying to figure out what method works for me or what is comfortable when it comes to this practice. My next goal is to begin applying a little more construction - better indicating directionality (twists) of elements like the torso and hips without while understanding how to keep my flow intact. Helpful feedback: (1) Moving from "Implied torso/hips" to "Intentional" (2) Anchoring/giving weight to the pose through legs and feet (3) Overall clarity

Sketches

Line quality, shape language, flow

Horse sketch

Proportions