i got an anatomy book solely about muscular bodies recently, and this picture is practice after studying it some. i think it came out quite nicely. i'm still practicing aa and i'm pretty happy with how it came out here, especially since i didn't break the bank in terms of palette size (or at least not as much as some of my other attempts). some of that took creative (and sometimes slightly surprising) reuse of colors, which i found fun.

i don't see any glaring mistakes yet, but i only just finished it, so there's probably something stupid i did or forgot to do. one part that was unexpectedly hard was the metal bar. i mean, i just finished a piece full of shiny metal, shouldn't i be good at this now? well, it doesn't work like that i suppose. either way i'm happy with the end result.