Quick life drawing sketch

[Al_Ninio]

Life drawing sketch, as the title suggests.
C&C anyone?

BTW today is my birthday!!!
I'm 16!
w00t!

[Scavenger]

Excellent! I really like that. Now, here is the C+C...

Um... did you draw this from a photo or something? If so, it would help to show us, so we have something to compare with, thus improving the quality of C+C. But if you drew it from real, real life, power to highwaygal! That's hard to do!

Thats all the City and Country we have right now.. but... her left leg below the knee is a bit big, but that could be the cutoff, where you stopped drawing.

And finally!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Now you're old enough to... uh... *goes blank* do... stuff. Go celebrate, and celebrate until you can do so no more!

[dagooh]

I Really like it highwaygal, the only thing I can notice are the ab muscles that seem rather large for a skinny girl like her, and her right shoulder (to our left) also seems kinda off.
I really really like it, hope you post a finished drawing.
and Happy Birthday (late I know).

[Igor]

Looking very nice! Great  
As for critics&suggestions: it's not really life-figure study, which i expected from the title. The thing is, it shows you were drawing from your head and so you simplified proportions. For figure studies it's a good idea to get someone to pose for you (life-drawing classes are great as they do it for you ). Drawing from magazines is another solution, but it's far from perfect (at least while you are trying to learn)- doing that, will give you a false impression you are better at drawing than you really are.

What separates life-drawing studies from cartoons the most, are shapes. If cartoons are all about lines, are forms the most important thing of life drawings.
Btw, some equal life drawing with "realistic", which is far from true... It doesn't matter if, for example, arms are a bit longer/shorter than they should be- i think the whole 3d feeling of model is far more important here. You can do that either with lines, or with shading (or both).

Also don't hasitate to sketch messily (at the moment is the pic just too clean, what makes it a bit flat).
I did really quick sketchy example- it's far from perfect and there are mistakes, but it shows, how to easily do more dynamic and 3dimensional study, just by leaving all those sketchy assistant lines on pic. Hope this helps a bit.


Btw, Happy Birthday