Hey, @vesuvio, I think these are great! The first pose (“imagination”) is certainly my favorite one. Awesome gesture - with good exaggeration - and nice 3D construction. Overall, in the gesture stage, I really like how you’re keeping the lines super simple and nicely flowing. I also find it cool how you’re adding an “extra step” between the gesture and the structure to figure out the aspects of balance and proportions - usually, I don’t think of these aspects as an “in-between step” (they usually come to me “diluted” either in the gesture or in the mannequin), but the way you’re breaking it down as a stage on its own seems pretty helpful. As for the mannequins and forms, I believe you’re also going in a nice direction overall. The way you seem to be thinking about the 3D forms makes the mannequins have a solid feel. But I believe the line quality of the mannequins may be jeopardizing the clarity a little - if possible, try cleaning up the lines just a bit more when drawing the mannequins. No need to worry about precision or being extremely clean though - cleaning up a bit more is a matter of being assertive with the visual message you’re conveying and dosing the “cleanliness” just enough to enhance the clarity so that no forms or parts of the structure feel unclear. If you’re still getting used to your drawing display and controlling the lines feels tricky, maybe try using a line stabilizer tool such as Lazy Nezumi (on Windows) or HejStylus (on MacOS). Also, I’d recommend drawing all the mannequins fully, avoid leaving some of them incomplete. If the goal of this practice is to design the mannequin as a cohesive bigger structure made of smaller parts, it’s good to not miss any parts. This is a recommendation for typical mannequin studies, which I understand is your focus with these. But of course, in other types of studies, if you want to focus on just a specific part of the body, then you can certainly develop just that specific area of the drawing which you’re focusing on and leave the rest of the figure as more of a rough sketch. My take on answering your question: if you’re currently in progress with the Figure course, I’d recommend finishing it entirely before starting Anatomy. If you’re done with Figure already, I’d say you can definitely start the Anatomy lessons as your next step. Hope this helps! Thanks for your patience in waiting for my feedback. :)

These look great! Your gesture has improved a lot. I think I'll try the thing with the arrows that you did in my own practice, looks helpful. I think the next step for you would be to get a basic understanding of the pelvis and the rib cage. The angles of your pelvis boxes are good, but for a better representation of the pelvis you should make them somewhat taller and narrower. Understanding the connection of the tibia to the pelvis is important. For the upper body, understand that the rib cage gets narrower towards the top, and the widening of the silhouette is caused by the shoulder girdle and the neck muscles. I think knowing where the ribcage/ shoulder girdle ends and where the neck muscles begin would help you on that one drawing with an x by it. Hope that helps! Please let me know if you have questions :)