This is pretty good, two notes : keep your work clean. And remember that you are adding details to the beans and gesture. You should still have the stretch and the bumps accordingly. I will have to go to my sketchbook to fully explain it.

Pretty good dude! You’re doing great at foreshortening certain limbs of the body, as well as drawing it!

seems like you are using boxes over the gesture, I think you need to keep it more simple, and work more on those base lines, I have try some of your poses if that helps to give you an idea, and try that does not take more than 1 or 2 minutes.

Hi @Crimson The Kitsune, I actually think those gesture drawings look pretty nice. Where do you feel like most of the struggle is? Is it in the gesture, or in finding the landmarks? Or something else?

Studying anatomy is the road to hel*, and anyone who would endeavor to do so deserves kudos. Despite your struggles finding the scapula, you're pretty darn close. My mentor always stressed to me that it's not about the individual anatomy so much as it is the relationship between the different parts of the body - in this case, the pelvis and the shoulders. One way I've studied this is to look in the mirror and see how my body moves in response to different positioning. For example, what happens to my hips if I arch my shoulders back? Then, move around and observe how the two influence each other. Otherwise, you are doing an amazing job, and never stop drawing!

You are correct. Especially with boney landmarks. A person can gain weight and lose weight, and the boney landmarks will still be at the surface of the skin. Which makes them reliable reference areas of the body when trying to draw the figure. Also I dont believe the figure drawing course requires the anatomy course (I checked the course page).

Hi @momoxue, nice drawings and good job indicating some of the landmarks. I would consider this exercise completed. You'll keep looking for landmarks as you draw, and when you get into anatomy you'll have extra knowledge to help you place them even more accurately. Other things: - There's some good stuff going on in these. You show a feeling for gesture and form. But the figures feel a bit disjointed, and some of the forms very thin. It might be that you're rushing to quickly into adding anatomical details. Before adding the bones and muscles, you'll probably want to have established the gesture and major forms. Since you already seem to have experiece in drawing forms (btw it would be nice to hear what previous experience you have), it would be interesting to see you do some gesture drawings with clear forms. Kinda like the Mannequinization – Structure of the Human Body, but with more rounded forms. I think you would benefit from checking out this Drawing Demo by Glenn Vilppu and try to mimick his way of working. At 21:00 he explains the process of starting with the flow, then adding forms on top. Apart from flow and proper volumes, also pay extra attention to balance. Check with your intuition: "Does it feel like this figure would fall, or is it balanced". It might help to indicate the ground plane. Your questions: 1. Once you're confident with gesture and major forms, you place out the anatomy. Since the shape of the muscle changes as the body moves, you have to study it thoroughly. You have to know where it originates and inserts, and what form it has, to be able to modify it based on the pose, and place it in space. Practicing drawing the anatomy from imagination, then checking with reference to see where you're off, is a good way to acquaint yourself with it. 2. The shoulder blades are really tricky. I've had to study them a lot, but now they're my favorites😎. One key to drawing bones that aren't clearly visible is to practice drawing them from imagination as described above, until you know where they should be placed, even if they're not visible. I rely a lot on my imagination when drawing anatomy. A thorough understanding, accompanied by clues visible on the surface usually gives me an accurate result, I think. Imagining touching the shoulder blades on the model, as well as imagining striking the pose myself, trying to feel where my shoulder blades would have been, also helps me. I attached an image of a mass conception of the scapula that you might find useful. 3. It might be because you're originating the rectus abdominis all the way down to the crotch. It starts a bit higher, at the pubic crest. Hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!

Yeah, the landmarks look pretty good! I think you would really benefit from doing some gesture quicksketches (the exercises from the first lesson). I couldn't see that you had posted any, and getting feedback on those will help you improve all your drawings, I think. Feel free to tag me (@Jesper Axelsson), if you post any. Hope this helps :)

Great work, just make sure you work on your gesture, specifically the line of action ( center line of the pose). and one more thing. When it comes to landmarks, the important thing to remember is make sure you still respect the structure of the skeleton under the muscles. It’s much more than just identifying them. You need to be able to draw the 3d shapes, do a little bit of perspective and then ad the landmark marchers and simplification on top.

You cannot see the action line in their figure that's why they seem too stiff. But don't worry, it's just the beginning you'll get better by more practice. Just don't forget to follow the action line.