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The anatomy is a bit off. The width and perspective of his hand suggest that his palm is pointing towards the crowd. However, the bend in his middle and pointer finger suggest that his palm should be facing his face. To see this more clearly, cover up the top of his middle and pointer finger. His hand looks like it is facing the crowd. Now cover his pinky and ring finger, revealing his middle and pointer again. Now his hand looks like it's facing his face. As it is, it looks like his fingers are broken.

Also his upper arm is too long. If you could imagine his upper arm continuing below the border of the picture to meet his elbow, it would be really really long. If his forearm is pointing straight up like that, and his upper arm is being held at the angle it's at in the pic, then his hand would be closer to his face. You could probably easliy cut out his forearm and rotate it so that the bottom is pointing a lil more towards his upper arm.

The contrast between the light and dark on his face doesn't make much sense either. Unless his face is a cube, if the light can shine that brightly towards the back of his jaw then it can at least hit his left eye and probably a bit of his nose too. The way that the lighting is now suggests that his face is a perfect box, with his eyes, nose and mouth all being on one flat side of the box, and his brightly lit jaw on another side of the box. Also, if his hand is directly in front of his face and it is that well lit, his nose should be pretty well lit too.

the perspective in the background is not consistent. Unless the road in the background starts going steeply down hill near the vanishing point, it doesn't make sense for the height of the buildings to be decreasing so rapidly.

[GRKboy]

You should start with the core, and work out. A good example for reference is have some take a picture of you standing in that same pose, and draw from the picture. As far as what I see here:
-His left shoulder is twisted too far forwad, pull it pack some
- Yeah, his elbow should be at the same level as his ear. Cut the arm off there, and re-position his forarm at about that level.
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-The HAND
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*You need to round it off more. Look at your own hand, and try to draw it. THat is why it looks like that. Its Great that you are aware of the perspective though! Try to hid the back portion of it and darken it a lot! Light wouldn't be hitting it from tis perspective.
* YOu fingers looke perfect, the reason they looks misplaced, is the middle finger. its twisted out of perspective. Try to "turn it towards his face, and drop it just below the tip of his pointer finger, and extend out closer to him, and see how that turns out.
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The Face
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It all has to do with perspective. Get a point of light as reference and shine it on action figures, balls, toys, dolls, whatever you find and see how it illuminates, tranfer that to the drawing.
- If it looks off, try drawing it in a box that is in perspective, and model the face from there. It looks great though [I think]
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Background
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Perspective! Where are your points?? Awesome detail, colors, action and everything, but there are no vanishing points for reference!
You could change everything right in Photoshop without haveing to redraw everything. Add your grid and picl stationary points for where the VP's should be [this one shouwld be 2-point] Draw temp lines, and brush over the edges to clean up.

Overall very impressive! Great work!!
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