I have kind of a lengthy answer to this question, because it gets to the heart of how I approach online learning. Hopefully this can give others a way to get the most out of Proko and this forum by using the same methods. The big secret is I don't study alone. The reason for this is that along with figuring out what to study, one has to figure out when to study. When will art get done? Morning? Night? Three days a week? Seven days a week? When the time gets scheduled, what mechanism is in place to ensure that you actually show up on schedule to make your art? The thing is, it's easy to break the promises we make to ourselves. If you schedule time with a friend or a group of friends, however, you're more likely not to miss the time you have set aside for you art. So that's what I have done with my group. We schedule time to meet early in the mornings three days a week at 5am, and once on Saturday at 7:30pm. On the morning sessions, it's just an open studio. Everyone brings their own projects to work on. We talk movies or whatever while we're all working, but the point of the meeting is just to schedule time for our art. Making a commitment to someone else to be there ensures that we all get our butts out of bed. I can assure you there have been times when my alarm has gone off at 4am I would have just hit snooze if people weren't waiting for me. Most of the time we bring our own projects, but we set aside the Saturday session for more formal practice. Things like figure drawing, anatomy, are things we keep in our training regimen. Even before we started systematically going through Stan's videos, we systematically went through Michael Hampton's book. And even before that, I've systematically gone through Andrew Loomis's figure drawing, and heads and hands books. We all take our own notes on our own time, but do exercises together. So, to answer your question, we have gone through the videos to take notes once, but we revisit the information as a part of our art training regimen--and will keep revisiting it as long as we meet together as a group, along with perspective, and other things we try to keep sharp on. Once we go through the paid courses, we'll likely find approaches and exercises to add to our regimen. It's not just about digesting the information. It's about building muscle memory so that the methods become automatic. My advice is to start meeting with a friend, on Zoom if you need to, and start doing the same thing. If you take notes, post them here. The value of posting your notes here is that if there is something you don't understand in the videos, someone else who has been studying them will likely see the error and help you correct it. That will keep an error in your understanding of the method from being persistent.

I've already told you this since we know each other, but nicely done.