Day 12: I notice that when I draw in perspective, I skew things towards "top-down" too much. Both yesterday and today's drawings don't match the original perspective. Something to working on...

And Day 10, an elephant teapot:

And Day 7!

And Day 4, too!

Day 2, I drew an orchid for about 40 minutes. I roughed out the shapes on a separate layer first, then laid in more detail and hid the very rough layer.

Thanks, that's helpful advice!

Thanks! I've done some beginner gesture before, but it never really clicked for me. I've always been torn between "draw a curvy stick figure" and "try to draw the contour as fast as you can", and so my end result was always messy with a lot of wasted lines and bad detail. Proko does a great job explaining how to balance the "feel" of the image with the contour, and watching the examples really helped it make more sense. Since I still feel like I'm a beginner with gesture, I don't have many tips to offer -- but what seems to help me is to not worry as much about time. If your 30-second drawings end up taking you 45 seconds but you get better lines out of it, then do 45 seconds. If you feel like 30 seconds is far too quick (it zips by for me), try some slower practice without worrying about time, but shooting to capture the essential lines you think should be in a 30s gesture. Eventually you can speed it up and hopefully get closer to what Proko does in his videos (or at least I hope I can!).