Female nude.

[DjHulk]

Hi folks! This is mi last image. In this time, i use a photo reference. I¡m working in shadows & lights and volume. C&C are welcome!!

[Lotet]

okay...i really wanna se the ref, cause...that looks reeeaaallly wierd

[Killer Napkins]

yes post the ref... because the torso loks pretty good but the proportions of the legs and.. what looks to be the neck.. jsut look way off

[Jakers]

It contains some decent values so you are getting the practice you were after, but it does have problems like others suggested. Going solid black on the body itself flattens it out (who knows maybe your picture does the same thing....if so maybe its a bit too heavily shadowed to get the most out of the study?) Arms? better foreshortened legs etc.

[DjHulk]

Here is the reference that I have used. Like you can see, my intention was not to make a copy of the same one. In the photo, the arms are not seen either and I have not drawn them either. It is certain that in my drawing the chests are greater. Any case, the woman of the photo have a extreme pose.

[Lotet]

lol that reff is wierd to haha....

[ODISAP]

Doesnt look like the reference.

And the reference is sooo weird

[revender]

The torso needs to get smaller as it goes up. The thighs/legs need to be bigger. The nipples need to be pointing upwards, not down. The way it is now it's as if her neck and head were folded backward like a piece of paper.

Torso-Smaller
Legs-Bigger
Nipples/Breasts-Up (and smaller)

Edit: Head/Chin needs to be smaller too.

[Skunkitorium]

The reference has a lovely glow on the upper ribs that you've only slightly touched upon in your piece. Also, watch the contours of the body; in your painting the ribcage is larger than her hips, but in the ref it's just the opposite. Keep at at it!

[Uroboros]

When you push the nipples down like that, it doesn't make the breasts look bigger, it makes them look droopier, when she sits up straight again her breasts will be hanging down pretty low like an old woman. So move them up higher and lift the breasts up.
If you wanna leave them like that, then I'd have to say that her left breast looks really flat on top, almost like it's being pushed against some invisible wall.

[DjHulk]

Well, I believe that the better thing will be to re-do the drawing in order that the most possible looks like the photo of reference (though it is a very strange photo). Shortly I expect to raise new updates. Regards and thanks for the commentaries and the suggestions, that I have annotated all. Forgive the English that I have used (I confess that I am using a translator online), it´s better that to write in my scanty english.

[Dose206]

you've found a pretty good online translator it seems. the english is definitely understandable. Do you us the translator on what we write or do you read English well?

[DjHulk]

you've found a pretty good online translator it seems. the english is definitely understandable. Do you us the translator on what we write or do you read English well?

I to read English well enough, but I do not have a vocabulary sufficiently extensive. I use the translator online to write my answers with a better vocabulary and replace the mistakes that the translator commits with my own works (This one has been an example).
Here is the link for if someone needs it.
Http: // www.elmundo.es/traductor/

[Stoat]

That's a strangely disturbing ref image!

One thing I'll note: you moved her nipples down substantially. If a woman is reared back like that and yet her nipples are pointing straight out (or even a little downward), it means that if she stood up and relaxed, her breasts would be extraordinarily saggy and downward-pointing.

My mother used to say that if a young woman stood nude in the middle of a room, her nipples would point to the upper, outer corners of the ceiling/walls. That's too simplistic, but it's one of the many useful artistic mnemonics they taught art students in the past.

[DjHulk]

The truth is that now she has the breasts of one of these prehistoric figures that were representing the goddess land. Definitively I have that re-do it. Already it is a rare photo, since to do a drawing of it still more strange. Regards.