/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4319889
>its just not as easy to replicate for a beginner
I know, I had a lot of frustrations with that as well.

I think at your stage too much "no do it this way" can actually be counter-productive and make you think that there is some magic approach and you're just not doing it right.

Despite that let me go a bit more in depth.
The best thing you can prbly do is focus on one aspect like rhytm for example and try to work on that for 2 weeks and if you feel like you're not getting anywhere move on to the next thing and try that for 2 weeks.

Your top row is too messy, it's fine to do things loosely but you should try to do that with purpose.
For example describing the entire outstretched leg with one flowing "s" curve.
In my opinion scribbly lines break the flow more than they describe it, I'm therefore not a fan of such an approach.

In your bottom row you're trying to be more clean and controlled, however the lines lack purpose/ descriptive quality.
It's like you're picking some contour lines arbitrarily and leaving others out, sort of like you're trying to create a "connect the dots" worksheet for kids.
This anon : >>4316879 posted a good image from hampton, in the first image under the "Head ICS" text It shows opposite curves flowing into one another creating a rythm and to the right of that the concept applied to the figure.
If you're unsure where to place your lines trying to understand that rythm that leads the eye through the figure will help you out.