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

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.

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?

Thanks @snakker I decided to do a gesture drawing session for a quick 30 minutes, and the comparing them to the proportions ive done previousley and what a vissible difference. I'll do a gesture proportion exercise later. after i feel a bit more confident with the gesture exercize. but here it is, i did 15 at 30 seconds. 7 at 1 minute. and 3 at 2 minutes.

I used the gesture drawing app that Marc recommends in the course video. What a helpful tool.

Heres some more Gesture Practice. Same intervals as the last one.

I feel like i was able to get a bit more into the 1 and 2 minute poses then the last one. Still needing to work on it. Progress is Progress!