Just my journey. We'll see how this goes. 
Jan 7, '24
Jun 12, '24
This is mostly a test post to see if I did this correctly.
The tools for this are neat, but I couldn't get the perfect settings reset on the pictures. I got them as close as I could, and I guess that's all I can do. Kinda fun though.
welcome to the forums!
Welcome to the forums Ronald! Bests of luck in this journey!
Welcome to the forums!
Welcome aboard!! Welp, i hope it goes well, looking forward to see your future posts.
16 days later
Well, it's been a couple weeks so I figured I should post again. I kinda forgot how to post, soooo I just replied to my first message. Is that right? Well, here's the next thing I did!
yep u did it right 
these look nice!
Here's the next assignment.
So, it's pretty obvious, and I'm not sure if it's cheating, but I used the mirror tool, so I essentially just had to draw one side. I figured since we were focusing on the sizing that it'd be ok, but I can see how not doing that would've been more beneficial. 
This was pretty helpful for me though. I've always heard about it but never practiced it before.
mirroring makes them look more stiff tho cus its the variety in poses that make them look gesturey but nice job i didnt notice it was mirrored til u mentioned it.
The hands and thighs/legs are a bit smol for the dudes tho but overall not bad
I thought they looked a bit skinny too, I'll have to keep that in mind and watch out for it. Thank you 
I've used the mirror myself to get the base done. It's very helpful, but if you were to eventually do pieces, it wouldn't work out too well, since angles and perspective have a huge impact on pieces.
It's also helpful to give it a try without the mirror to get a feel for proportions and alignments manually, since those skill will eventually translate into a 3D space. Of course your are bound to get disproportions on the first tries, but keep in mind it's just exercices, don't stress too much about the end quality, just on what you are learning from it.
Well, here's the gesture drawing. Although I did do the timing a bit askew. These are all done in 45 seconds. Overall, I'm fairly disappointed with them.
Anyways, I feel like I'm missing the purpose of this assignment. Like, I know what it's suppose to look like and what it's for, I guess my mind just doesn't understand how to make gestures or something. 
It's all about training observation skill and learning to work from references, as well as building your mental library.
A quick test to see how it's helping you is to get one reference sample, one of the ones you are using, then put it away and try to draw it from imagination like if it was a gesture work. Then bring the image back, and do the gesture proper by looking at it same 3 mins. compare both and I think you'll notice a difference even in simple doodles.
