@peter-hartnett I did the 1. part of the exercise this time zoomed in a bit. And I think the result is a bit more indicative:
This time I was also trying to do more of a stroke motion, while the first time I kind of slowly moved from one point to the other. I also noticed that sometimes I didn't press the stylus perpendicularly to the screen, which caused my stroke to stray in the start. Instead of this exercise I was doing cylinders in perspective in my sketchbook, but I really should do them on the display tablet just to get more of a feel for drawing on it.
Btw I use the Ugee 2150 pen display. The display is fine and until now I never felt that the resolution was lacking. I does however have some driver issues with some programs (krita version 3+).
If I were buying a display now (and didn't have the money for a cintiq ), I would buy the Huion GT-221 Pro. I haven't heard anything bad about the display and the drivers look great. The allow to set any macro to the express buttons even running batch programs. It even has a drag bar.
Yea you're right I also thought it's hard to see the proportions. I was thinking of placing the reference and figure side to side and to the trace on the figure just to compare.