Cking’s Art Journey

Hiya everyone!
I have been doing art for off and on since I was 5. I have taken several art classes/courses off and on as well. In high school I was offered a full ride scholar ship to an art college that was near where I lived, which I turned down for a few life reasons, one of which is because of peer pressure.
I love art, but my skills have drastically diminished over the years because I didn't have a clear concise goal for what I wanted to do, or draw.
I'm an author now and have a goal that is driving me to improve my art. My goal is to be able to draw and illustrate the characters that are in my books, I want to bring the words to life to help myself and those who read my books to see what I see in my mind while I write my books.
I hope you can all help me along my journey!
I appreciate all tips or nudges/suggestions on how I can grow closer to my goal. I look forward to this course and the journey ahead.

Its been a bit busy lately so I wasn't able to do much but today i was able to finally sit down and start.

Usually I'm just looking at a reference on my other monitor but I'm going to follow instructions better to cement a better foundation. Lets go!

Today work. red is line of action, blue the three main shapes, green for joints/limbs

added orange for the arm shape and volume. trying to keep all the color pallet for each lesson. Ive noticed as I'm out and about, or just watching anime/tv/youtube, or just browsing the internet looking at pictures that my mind is breaking down all the different points, its a little trippy but pretty fun.
Here's the cylinder practice-

Here's the over body practice-

Practicing volume poses again today. tried doing one without reference. the one in the bottom left i tried to copy the reference without being directly over top.

Also tried my hand at the next part with drawing the body proportions.

I feel like i need to work on the female more. One step at a time, progress!

Practiced some more on proportions and poses again today. I think i did better on the female this time than yesterday.

For the poses I tried to not use any references, when working on them. I did better then I thought I would, still feel like i need to practice more.

next leson. I did this both sidemy side and then overtop. I realized the i needed to make the body more cubed to better show the twisted areas better.

going to be working on this part for a little bit till i feel like i can do it better