Hi @scooter85 I wrote some about it in this critique I gave another student https://www.proko.com/course-lesson/quicksketch-assignment-examples-2-minute-poses/discussions#1936753563194161.64376695340305161 It´s more on a macro level, but maybe it´s useful to you. You find it under the headline STRUGGLES Hope this helps :)

I'm also a beginner, dividing my time almost equally between studying perspective and figure drawing/gesture right now.

Hey! I'd say it really depends on what your goals are. An illustrator might want to spend a ton of time learning figure, where as a concept artist would likely spend way less time. @Jeffrey Watts has a video on his Youtube channel called "How to Train to be a Professional Artist" that I really liked when I was in school. What I'd say is identify your goals, and then go from there.

my approach was to study the lesson of the course that you are following or watch a video on the subject and then do loats of the same exercise. for example: i study the anatomy of the face, for the next 10 days i will draw 100 heads in my 2 hours; same concepts but applied with all the others subjetcs. Also i think that is important to not only do this kind of exercise but try and do something that you enjoy and that is challenging for your skills so that you can balance your practice and your fun.

Work on line quality, constructing things from basic forms, perspective.

I'm still a begginer, but what i do is: 1- [20] Minutes of gesture drawing [5 - 1 minute poses, 5 - 2 minute poses - 1 - 5 minute poses] 2- [5-10] Minutes (i analized my gesture drawings and see what i have to practice 3- [30] Minutes studying the thing that i need to practice 4- The remaining time i usually continue a course or practice what i fell like.