Heyo, welcome, glad to have some company in this journey. Bests of luck!

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!

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-

Oh I feel you, doing art really changes how you see things

Keep up the good work,

Cheers

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

A lot has happened so wasn't able to do much with art. but back at it till next weekend when another break is gunna happen. Life sucks some times...
But heres todays work-
Attempt 1- made it way to wide with the shapes, so the proportions are way off and had the wrong angle on the head and different parts.

Attempt 2- A little better closer on the correct proportions but some of the angles need to be a bit sharper.


The improvement is slow but becoming more apparent each time. One Step at a time. but I have been able to see the improvement step i take to redue and adjust how i look at things.

Nice work! Keep it up. Iterating like that over the same fogure can be very helpful, especially as you are aware of mistakes and asking yourself questions along the way and not just mindlessly stroking the canvas (which, tends to happen a lot - it’s easy to fall into the trap of just going through the motions and making it a mechanical exercise and not a mental one!)

Cheers!

Still Working on the proportioned poses,

here's try one for the day-

here's try 2-

The thing I realized the most as I was doing the exercize was that I wasn't putting enough of the curvature of the body to really show the correct proportions. thats why between try 1 and 2 its such a large difference in body length. This exercize is what im having the hardest time with in term 1.
Any Suggestions?

Nice one. I sometimes do both gesture and proportions study on one same figure. You can try doing the gesture in one layer, then draw the figure on top, try suggesting rather than drawing all the lines. When you do the gesture it gives a good idea of what to really emphasize with your line work

Cheers