Thank you Xybb for the critque! The latest picture was indeed darker, and I guess tried to emulate that too much without really thinking much about how to distribute the values. Perhaps the pics I have also might not be the best, since I get confused from the lighting and local values.

Now that I look back to it, the pic for value 5 also had more darkness to the foreground. Oops! Thank you for the tips, they were helpful and I'll keep them in mind!

I can't anymore 🥲 The trees kinda look like blobs but have been really feeling that mental strain ( ﾉ ﾟｰﾟ)ﾉ I think I've been working on this painting alone for about 8 hours

I tried to pay more attention to making the midground and background of a similar, and lighter value. But for the reference, I found that light and local values kinda make the standard dark, medium, light value distribution a bit mixed. So I think I relied on more of the shadows to help me know that standard order of values. Hopefully it's evident that the darkest shadows are in foreground.

Which created a question: would shadows, or areas not affected by light, generally be a guide to how I should establish the "standard" values? This would be great to know if I were to create my own landscape. If anyone knows let me know! I'll prob search it up too later

value #6

Thanks Lockenhein! Will take a look

Took a whole day to complete one of the term 3 assignments ;-; Liking how the boxes fit with the muscles, although I messed up one of them unfortunately

Middle stage and final result:

Thank you Lia! Do you mind elaborating where the neck muscles seem odd? I want to know 🥺

Two clothing studies I did from reference!

Thanks Lia for taking the time to point it out
I used a skeleton as a base for drawing the muscles, as per the instructions for this particular assignment. I corrected the parts you mentioned as well as I could, although I don't think the deltoid could be repositioned as much because of the skeleton:

I appreciate the critique, made me realize that deltoid part probably shouldn't come out that twisty lol and the relationship between parts

A couple works I did over the past month or two. Gosh, how did I forget to post here for over month (╯▽╰ )
I took a pause on going through the terms for art school, and unfortunately went on a tangent...
I did try taking an environment sketching class, so hopefully I will be showing more works from that class when I get to it

But at the moment, I think it's about time (overdue 😅) l go back and finish learning about the muscles...