So i've been practicing drawing (almost) daily for the last 2 years or so. But I lack focus and structure. After listening to the draftmen podcast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od1xbX2ESP8). I've decided to bring in more structure. The podcast mentions this Redit post (https://www.reddit.com/r/learnart/comments/dapk62/from_the_guy_who_made_the_most_comprehensive_list/) with a full curriculum. My challenge will be to follow this curriculum as close as possible. I've created this topic mostly to keep myself accountable. But i will post created work regulary, and any feedback/ critique from you guys is greatly appreciated! Some personal info: -39 years old -fulltime job outside art -On average i have 1 hour each day to practise (a bit more in the weekends) -Not a native English speaker, so please forgive me the grammar and spelling mistakes :) The first unit is figure drawing. I've already followed Stan's figure drawing course before, so im revisiting the course. Here are some 2 minute and 30 second gesture drawings (drawn in Procreate). Please let me know what you think of them.

Hi there, I'm making a Sketchbook/Drawing Diary so that I can see my progress this year if I really improve. I will mostly post insects, animals, vehicles and maybe some human anatomy to improve my visual library. I will try my best to post everyday so that I wont procrastinate.

I have an exercise I’ve been doing with some friends in a private forum that I thought would be useful here.  It’s a kind of simplified masters study, where we break down the work of our favorite artists into boxes and cylinders.  Check out Drawabox.com to get up to speed on the theory that underpins form. Understanding convergence and how circles work in perspective is very important. On the site, when you get to the 250 box challenge, and 250 cylinder challenge, I would suggest doing at least part of the studies in the form of this figure analysis exercise. Doing so will help you apply the procedural knowledge (the how) you learn there, to the contextual knowledge (the when) you’ll need to incorporate the lessons into your own work. If you struggle with drawing simple forms correctly, this exercise can help. They only take a few minutes to do and are good exercises that can help you get the most out of your other studies that assume this knowledge as a foundation. I’ll post a few to get us started. Post any exercises in the replies. Also, feel free to post your own favorite artists for the rest of us to analyze. Different artists have a variety of proportional approaches to the figure, and it’s worth studying the differences. 

Where are you guys? Post your artwork in Pen and Ink here, I Will be pleased to know your work as a fellow student of this beautiful yet demanding medium! Here some of my studies:

Hello all, I've been inspired by @Geert-Jan's thread and I want to do the same! I am going to follow the Reddit post that he mentioned and finally start to take this seriously. I am very excited to get going and will be posting my daily drawings. Any feedback is greatly appreciated!

Hi, So this topic will just be some sort of sketchbook where i regularly post figure drawings and head studies. My goal is to master the human figure, and i'm convinced that one can achieve this through smart studies and repetition. Also, this might help me staying motivated. Thanks and good drawing. p.s: Sorry for the spelling mistakes, English isn't my first language.

Hi folks, this are some of my exercises of the @Court Jones course

I create this topic to share my daily sketches (apart from assignments drawings). This will be a motivation for me to have a daily practice and to fill my sketchbooks. Critiques are welcome. Thank you very much!

I started the Proko portrait course approximately 2 years ago. I feel I’ve made great progress since then and am still working on it. Here’s my latest. I initially found that drawing heads was very difficult, and the course was helpful in breaking things down in a way I could understand.

Hi, I’ve recently returned to drawing and have been practicing my portrait lay-ins. I’m completely self taught and have never benefited from the critiques of other artists. I want to move onto rendering some finished pieces but don’t think I have the basics pinned down just yet Any help or advice you guys have would be massively appreciated cheers 😁

Hello good friends! I figured (pun intended) I'd share my most recent figure drawing practices as my first post on Proko 2.0! These were all done during the past 6 months, and for the most part are between 2 - 5 minutes. I'd like to hear what you guys think I can improve on and if possible to also see your own! Thanks in advance, and have a great one :)

Hey there! This is my first post I decided to do some skull studies and I was wondering if you guys see anything I could improve overall in my work?

I've been learning the fundamentals online for about a year now, and there is a ton of information out there to get to grips with - one thing that comes up time and time again is these two conflicting pieces of advice; 1. Do it right - don't worry about speed, that comes with time - just focus on doing whatever you're doing correctly - if you don't do this, you will just develop a lot of bad habits 2. Do it a lot - don't worry about quality, that comes with time - just focus on iterations and failing a lot - if you don't do this, you will get stuck and never progress This drives me crazy! I ping back and forth between these two ideas in my practice - enjoying the quality of my work when I take my time (but getting frustrated at how long it takes), and enjoying the quantity of ouput when working quickly (but getting frustrated at how much of it is terrible) Does anyone else struggle with this?

A quick portrait study in charcoal.

Hello students and gurus :) I think over the years, my number one problem was an inconsistent timetable. Soooo to keep it short, I'm trying to draw even a tiny little bit every day. To that end, I decided to open this doodlepad in hopes that it keeps me going. Some of these are from imagination, some from references, timed or not. For the references, I made an app a short while ago. If you know line-of-action/quickposes, it's similar to those, but it's a desktop app and uses Pexel's photograph database instead. I have a short presentation of it here https://www.proko.com/community/topics/pexelsqd-a-quick-draw-picture-slideshow-app. You can grab the app from https://github.com/razcore-art/godot-pexelsqd. Hope it helps! If you do get it you'll need to register for an account with Pexels and grab yourself an API-KEY. So here we are, wish me luck! :)

Hi all, leaving a trace in this newborn platform.. Here are a bunch of figure drawing practice and study of @Lane Brown 's style and approach which i really adore ;) I did them a year ago during the challenge event of "Figuary" (held annually in February, hosted by lovelifedrawing.com and models provided by CroquisCafe) Comments & Constructive critiques are always appreciated! Thanks. also, lets connect in this new platform

Hi! I did this portrait study of a friend with sanguine and I would like to get some critique.

I started this digital portrait of my boyfriend months ago, but could never figure out how to finish it! Any idea how to stop it looking like a floating head, and make it look more finished? I wasn't working from a photo, so I was making up the angle of the shoulders, which I like, but can't figure out where the shirt should go. Not sure a shirt would add much anyway! Any suggestions, or critiques on the drawing would be appreciated!

Here's a recent piece I'm calling done for now. I may tweak a few things in the future, but it's been off the easel long enough I might as well post it :D For this one, I let go of a lot of time constraints I've historically put on myself. I just kept pushing it as far as I could go. It's pretty small—the whole portrait is maybe 3 inches (7.6cm) tall. The pencil included in the second image is for scale. The size made it really tricky! Not sure I'll do a portrait this tiny again...

Been studying fundamentals slowly but surely! I used to be an artist who only knew how to paint through observation but never touched fundamental stuff!