The rest of the figure drawing assignments. I realized that I'm so used to building my art in layers of sketches, so I'm not good at clean lines straight off the bat. Hopefully that can improve in time!
Great job on those gestures!
I also build my art in layers of sketches. What helped me to refine my lines was to lower the opacity after each pass. Draw the full figure with loose lines, lower the opacity, do another pass on a new layer with tighter lines and so on.
To be honest I really like your figure drawing. The loose lines give it lots of energy.
Hello I really love those gestures, your lines give off so much energy. Great work.
Thanks, everyone for the feedback!
Some more simple skeleton exercises, first I traced over them and then in purple, I did from reference. Looking at others' work I decided to make the cylinders longer, which compared to the first skeleton, the other two look a lot better. The main thing I observed is that when I do it from reference I lose the subtleties that I captured in the traces. In the future, I want to be more observant and capture the poses better!
I also did a 15 minute session of 30 sec gesture drawings! 
Here is more measured proportions practice! This is the part that I have the most challenge with. I've done a lot of gesture drawing, but this analytical approach is new to me.
I can see I made the figure a little too short, and her arms too long, as well as some issues with foreshortening.
Really nice work with this! Pretty darn close! Kep it up!
Thank you, Lockenheim!
I finally started on the Perspective lesson! I've definitely neglected this part of my art studies, so I hope as I practice, my art improves as well! For the cube assignment, I'm not sure what the norm is, but I personally find the line tool more cumbersome than not, so I did all the cubes and perspective lines freehand. I obviously need to work more on my marksmanship, but are there any improvements needed to be made to the perspective? Thanks!
I'll also be starting the Drawabox course because I've seen others recommend it, and it seems it'll be beneficial to my perspective!
A sketch of a kitchen I did in one-point perspective. Really wanna start practicing drawing environments and props. It'll add a whole new flair to my art! This isn't my official drawing for the Perspective 1 assignment, just some practice! 
Looks like you are getting the hang of it! This is a really cool piece. Im not familiar with traditional but I think all the noise in this adds a really cool effect. Keep it up!
Thank you! To be fair, the "noise" is just smudged pencil, and it wasn't intentional, but I'm glad it works!
Hello! It's been a while since I posted. As I was starting to do the Perspective assignments, I decided to also start the Drawabox to improve my line confidence and spatial reasoning, I'll be posting these in batches. Starting with the lines exercises!
Your gestures are nice ! try to incorporate more of them when u do figure drawing, be more relaxed and try to make long, curvy lines, you can do it i can see on your gestures 
Keep up with drawing boxes and cylinders in perspective everyday, its gonna help you so much in the long run with thinking in 3D
Good work keep going !! 
Thanks for the feedback! I will certainly try to incorporate the gesture into my other figure drawings! With the measure proportions, it seems all about getting accurate that I forego the flow, but I'll try to balance it in the future!
I'll also be sure to keep up the basic forms practice, it has been super beneficial to my art! Even before doing ART School.
So I was hoping for some advice. I struggle a lot with overthinking. I overthink so much, that I don't even start drawing a lot of times. There are so many fundamentals I want to work on, and I often wanna do things that I'm perhaps not ready for yet, like color.
If I want to do personal work, I've got a lot of ideas and it's difficult to choose one. Even if I do decide on one, I worry that my skills aren't good enough to make a quality piece.
Does anyone have an idea/advice for a practice routine that'll make it easier to hunker down and just do the work?
I also got into an art rut back in September, and I didn't really pick things back up until April of this year. When I started drawing again it was a lot of study and practice. Now it's challenging to start an original piece. Because I've gained so much knowledge about art, I'm a lot more aware of my flaws, which makes it more of a drag to get through original work. Is there a way to get the creative spark back?
So I think this is probably different for everyone and I think i may be changing my schedule but here is what has worked for me so far.
All week I am thinking about my piece for the following week, giving it time to incubate in my head, so when I get to the next saturday I am ready
Saturday = prep day, prep all my instagram posts for the week, prep my references, prep my study materials. Sunday Monday Tuesday Studies only. I do studies based on what my main focus will be on my main piece for the week. If its anatomy heavy, ill do anatomy study etc.
Weds Thurs Friday = Work on piece. I use the studies I have done through the week and directly apply them to the piece Im working on. I focus on having the same process and trying to punch higher each piece.
I don't know if that is helpful or makes any sense, if you want more details just let me know. Thats what works for me. I like doing studies, if I didnt I would change this up a bit. Anyways let me know if you have any questions maybe this is helpful.
@Lockenheim Thank you! And don't worry, it made sense and was helpful I like the idea of studying what I'll be drawing later to maximize the result, a very efficient system! Using Saturday to just prepare references also seems like a good idea, I hate havng to collect references every time! XD I'll try to incorporate something like this into my practice.
I don't know if this is a probelm you have, but I often have too many ideas and I don't really know which one to pick. How do you come up with ideas and actually pick the one that's best?
