Day 8! I've made it a whole week! I was having a surprisingly hard time finding good free stock for doing the nude gesture drawing but I thought of a few places that will have high quality images and aren't behind a paywall. (So far I've been subsisting off samples from paid image packs.)
Exercise and martial arts guides! You could use yoga, calisthenics, pilates, any number of different ones. Many of them will have a ton of images of people doing the different activities in very tight clothing so it's almost as good as a nude. It also might be less embarrassing if you have to share space with a family member or non artist. And the martial arts ones will be great for action poses. Anyway, once I had the idea I figured I'd share in case this helps anyone.
I'm struggling a bit with my graphics tablet because it's kind of a pain to set up the display tablet, so I usually end up using the non-display tablet as mentioned before. I keep telling myself, it's good practice. Today I had very low motivation so I used my clutch pencil instead, on actual paper. That feeling of touching graphite to paper is just so darn satisfying. Even though my primary goal is to improve fluency with digital art, I will swap in traditional stuff now and again. The really funny thing is, my traditional and digital practice all seems to help each other and I want to stay good at both.
Sample coursework, a basic proportions sketch. Probably need to measure my boxes better when I do it again.
