After some time practicing, here are some of my mannequins. I've tried to keep both balance and proportion (phases of work are: gesture, balance/proportions and finally mannequin) but both will come much better after doing some more specific studies. Should I already try to study either anatomy or more proportions specifically for it? (Proportion for the part between the gesture and the mannequin while anatomy to put on top of the mannequin). Also had very much fun trying to craft poses from my imagination (latest work, its the image with the blue "imagination" label, had the most clear idea with the first) where I also used once a ruler (the green line) Tagging @Liandro and @Crystal Blue (she/her) from my last post! I've trying using a white background (referring to my last post's "dark mode") and I found it very much a game changer so I think I will keep it (at least during the day!) And yeah, I've used my new drawing display on those ones rather than the drawing tablet (and surely not paper by the look of it!).

After a little break, I have restarted making gesture drawings and when I felt confident enough, I tried to go on drawing the bean for my poses. I do not keep timing when drawing. Do you think I should try? Also, I find it really hard to draw the bean on my drawing tablet due to the curve being round. Probably because I cannot see my hand there (it is not a screen tablet). What could I do to ease up drawing those curves? I mainly draw with wrist and rarely with shoulder, could it be the issue?

Quite a bit of time ago, I've started trying learning to draw. I found proko's figure drawing foundamentals's playlist and it was really a gift from heaven. However at some point I hit a wall during mannequinization: My gesture wasn't really good and in the end I was more likely to ignore it during forms construction rather than actually making good use of it (you should still be able to find my other post here somewhere). Then life has got busy and I haven't had a chance to touch my drawing tablet for quite a while but today I finally managed to and planning to start over learning to draw (both by using proko's videos and ctrl+paint). This time, however, I do not want rely on poor basics and therefor have decided to seek for help in regards of my gesture drawings. I've posted a few gesture drawings I made after rewatching the "Gesture drawing video" (one is made before and after seeing the pose on the step by step video, one is only before watching the same pose on the video). When I used to try and get gesture down, almost would always rely on contours so this once I tried to focus on the motion as much as I could so sorry if they seem a little bad.

I have been following Proko's figure drawing playlist for a while now and I am pretty excited about it, especially because up until I started following lessons and practicing somewhat regularly, I never thought something as "subjective" as drawing could be in my skill-set. I managed to draw both on paper and digitally although I prefer the latter. I currently reached the mannequinization after watching gesture (which I did practice but ALWAYS feels a little... off?), bean (I had nightmares drawing that digitally!), robobean (I loved this one), landmarks (I barely remember anything... agh...) and structure (Although I only did draw stand alone forms such as cubes or cylinders). It has been fun and all but now I am slowly getting the sensation that "this is not enough". I mean, as I draw and watch the critique lessons I see other student's work look way more clean than mine no matter how much I practice (probably I just repeat the same mistakes without noticing) and even if they look good, how do I go from a mannequin to a finished drawing/some design I could use? How do I fill in the detail? Should I start already learning anatomy and proportions? I had a quick glance at the shading video but I feel like it too doesn't help enough on the detail part. At the end of the day, I decided to post here my questions and concerns in hope someone may provide me the answer I am seeking for. I will post one of the exercise I just did using a photo from "line of action". The exercise I did today is divided into 4 parts. First the gesture, then the mannequinization without the use of the gesture itself and then two tries of mannequinization having the gesture as a guide. (I am not at my usual working desk and as soon as I reach it, I will post two more exercises I did a few days ago). Thank you for reading my way too long text and please if you have any advice on how to improve at my current stage and continue from it, share it.