/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6571576
Still working through the volume/shape stuff myself, learning construction and blocking things out helps, or at the very least being able to "visualize" it on paper, it's hard to explain and most tutorials on the subject are equally vague. Drawing basic 3D volumes like cylinders, combining them, etc. Eventually helps get a feel for it, and Vilppu is considered to be the master of this, so his book and course might be of use to you. I sort of imagine the 3D figure I'm trying to draw on the sheet, and run my pencil as if trying to trace or run it over their skin, following the volume and perspective it'd have.
Starting off, I think trying to draw the 3D forms would be helpful, like for arms or so, draw a cylinder, draw it see through and with contour lines, which to me it really helped see where I was fucking up with my forms, sorry if I can't be more specific than this.
Something else that helps give the feel of volume is to have overlapping forms, in the image you posted, everything is just flat, the only overlap you really see is the biceps over the shoulders a little bit, but the human body has a lot more areas you could add overlaps, for example below the armpit, on a muscular person like this from the front, you can see the latissimus dorsi muscle, you even kinda drew it, it's that lump next to the pectoral, so having a line going down from a more detailed armpit separating the front/side of the torso and that back muscle helps give that sensation of depth and volume. Another area that immediately looks wrong in this regard in your image, is the arm you can actually see in the top left: not only is it too short and fucked, but also there's like, 0 overlap between lower and upper arm where the inner elbow is, one of those 2 lines should clearly go into the drawing and overlap the other half of the arm, depending on the viewing angle. Folding your own arm like that you should see the skin pinch there. This pic I found (not mine) has good examples.