I can definitely see what you mean with your second camel drawing, and the skull drawing. You have a good eye! You made great CSI choices in your camel drawings; I think that your lines in the skull drawing could be simplified just a bit more. There's a lot of little details in there that you observed well, but for the point of this assignment, could be translated into a C or S curve, or a straight line.

I am impressed. very clean and readable. Proportions are good!

Yes! I've had similar troubles, and still do it all the time. I have 3 recommendations, you can see which or which combination suits you: 1) try drawing a rectangular box within which you must confine your drawing. Don't go outside the box, no matter what. Very hard mentally, but the challenge will help you reframe your mind. Beforehand, observe roughly the space in which you want the drawing to be and make sure the proportions of the rectangle fit (the "aspect ratio" of your drawing, in other words). I don't personally prefer drawing this way, but it is very good practice because it makes you acknowledge some of the major proportions before you even lay down a stroke. 2) Be very patient with preliminary observation, try to really take mental note of where you want to start before jumping into the drawing. You might look at the photo for 5-10 minutes before you even draw, and that's totally okay. The best way to learn in my experience is to cognitively acknowledge what you're trying to do, and patiently do your best to apply it - even if you fail, this will net you way more progress than jumping in again and again, attempt after attempt, without that breathing space inbetween. 3) Try a rough layin of the figure before going in and adding more structure. For the skull, that could just be the main outlines (long straight on the left, diagonal on the jaw, etc) forming a basic shape. If you still can't do that, that's the area you need to improve on first. Try redoing the layin until you can get it within the bounds of the paper like you want. This is a very frustrating problem, and I still struggle with it. If you have also found ways to deal with it, I would love to hear your perspective. I hope what I said helps at least a bit!

Another practice I did, Need to focus on the proportions more eventually! Its a bit of a struggle.

Hi! Do you post your art anywhere? I think we are in similar situations. I try to do my solo self-found art education while juggling full-time jobs as a doctor. I'm always looking for people to talk about art with! Anyways - nice job. I can see every type of curve in our images clearly and the images read well.

From what I can see here, you’ve done a great job! It seems like the second attempts were simplified further than the first. You’re on the right path. The best thing I can offer to help with the eye measuring might just be to keep the reference really close to your drawing. If you can print it at the same size as your drawing paper, even better! I made this demo to help explain it further: It looks like you did the assignment just as you should. I hope this helps to clarify it further for you-

Looks good! Nice progress between the two.